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Gavin Ashenden

Instrumentum Laboris or Instrumentum Deceptionis?
July 10, 2023
The Catholic Church is indeed in serious need of renewal. But when has the Church not been? The task for each generation is one of discernment. Discernment is both a facet of common sense, but like so many aspects of the life of faith, it has a spiritual or supernatural dimension too. St Paul reminds
Comedy and the Christian Faith: Appreciating Jesus’s humour gives us a new perspective
July 10, 2023
One day long ago, in the 1970s, I remember listening to the fusty old Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, on Radio 4. Years later I read a novel by Italy’s premier semiotician, Umberto Eco. The combination of both gave birth to a need to write a book on Christianity and comedy. Lord Hailsham, urbane, dry and
Synodality, ‘Instrumentum Laboris’ and the culture wars
July 03, 2023
It was forty years ago that I walked into an Anglican Communion service in Canada and encountered my first Anglican woman priest in the liturgy. I was rather excited. I was not long out of Anglican theological college and no one had quite understood what the fuss was all about. The issue about priesthood had
In science, as in every aspect of life, the ends don’t justify the means
June 21, 2023
As usual, Shakespeare nails it. Three allusions in a dozen words. “As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods, They kill us for their sport.” As I was thinking through some of the implications of some dramatic scientific research these words from King Lear slipped back into view. Shakespeare compresses into one sentence the anxiety
The dangers of worshipping the ‘Pride’ flag
June 15, 2023
Outside sporting occasions, the sudden emergence of flags is seldom a good sign. It’s usually an early warning sign of a power grab. It spells trouble. Of all the Catholic martyrs, 85-year-old Polycarp heads my list of inspirational heroes of the faith. In refusing to burn a pinch of incense to the deity of the
Exorcism, Psychology and Belief in God
June 02, 2023
Deciding between Jung and Christ on the problem of evil. Films about exorcism often catch the public’s fertile imagination. The recent film The Pope’s Exorcist has, as might be expected, caught people’s attention. The Herald reviewed the film last month, but the effect it has on those who watch it may be as important as
Sainted saunterers: prayer and praise on the pilgrim road to Chartres
May 28, 2023
Good news in the Church is even more appealing on the feast that is sometimes described as the Church’s birthday. The annual pilgrimage from Paris to the cathedral at Chartres, which takes place over Pentecost weekend, is growing exponentially. Jean de Tauriers, president of Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, which organises the pilgrimage, has been celebrating the
Why Pachamamas have no place in the Church
May 25, 2023
The podcast Merely Catholic gives me the opportunity to meet people of real calibre and interest, as well as discovering things I was unaware of. For this week’s edition of the Catholic Herald podcast I had a fascinating discussion with Alexander Tscheuggel. Alexander has become very well known in some circles, but in case you
Beware AI, the next assault on God and his Church
May 23, 2023
(Photo: Paul Kingsnorth) In echoes of the end of the life of St Augustine of Hippo, The Vandals are at the gates- again. But this time they are at both the front and back gates of the Church.  Paul Kingsnorth, a recent convert to Orthodoxy and one of the more profound of our contemporary thinkers
Archbishop Welby undermines his office by taking sides on immigration
May 11, 2023
The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken in the House of Lords about the migrant crisis. But in doing so, he has run the risk of impairing his office as Archbishop.  Not because the body politic has any problems with giving him a platform to speak there (the presence of Anglican bishops in the House of
King Charles III has the prayers of his people
May 07, 2023
No one does historical pageant like the British. Uniquely in Europe, and in the West, we have retained the historical arterial connections with our national identity.  There are contexts when it counts against us, for example the new hyper-sensitivity to colonial adventurism, and other contexts, like a coronation when it floods the body politic and
The Lord’s Anointed: The rituals that reveal England’s Catholic past
May 05, 2023
Anointing the monarch at a coronation takes us back to England’s Catholic past, explains former Royal Chaplain Dr Gavin Ashenden Of the symbolic echoes of the Catholic vision of society in Europe, the coronation of a monarch remains one of the most powerful. The ceremony in which King Charles III is to be crowned has
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