Catholics waited for strong leadership. It didn’t come
June 27, 2019
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On Monday morning, the historian Tim Stanley tweeted out: “We note with regret that Jesus Christ has been nailed to
What we lost when we lost the Sacred Heart
June 6, 2019
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A hymn to the Sacred Heart should fill us with spiritual joy, but how we winced in my childhood parish
Remembering the forgotten pope
August 30, 2018
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We still don’t know much about John Paul I, who was elected – and died – forty years ago Forty
The pope we lost: why we must not forget John Paul I
August 30, 2018
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The smiling pope was patently holy and clever – but, if his pontificate had lasted, would he have faced the same problems as Pope Francis?
Well done to Bishop Vasa for banning ‘Communion Services’
August 19, 2018
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Lay-led services invite a parody of the Mass. Bishops must exercise discipline where necessary
Damian Thompson: The thin end of the wedge
August 16, 2018
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A friend of mine texted me last week to say that she’d found a nice church round the corner from
Wild liturgy with the kitchen sink thrown in
August 2, 2018
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What is a Catholic to make of a “Mass” in which the celebrant throws the Host to the ground and
Archbishop Lefebvre’s surprising legacy
June 21, 2018
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The SSPX founder changed the Church, but in ways he could never have imagined
The real legacy of Archbishop Lefebvre
June 21, 2018
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It is exactly 30 years since a gaunt French archbishop stood in front of thousands of worshippers and – in
Caught in the culture wars
May 9, 2018
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Fr James Martin SJ is an American priest and author who has cornered the market in affable and polished liberal
Caught in the culture wars
May 9, 2018
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America’s most famous Jesuit has a great gift for spiritual writing. But his polemics have helped to widen the Church’s divisions
Diary by Damian Thompson
April 19, 2018
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Lady Antonia Fraser has written a book entitled The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829. Don’t be