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Gavin Ashenden

The Christmas speech that defines the King as a ‘defender of faiths’
December 26, 2022
Has King Charles sowed the seeds of the destruction of the House of Windsor? Dramatically this year the King’s Speech refers not just to a film about the recent history of the monarchy. It is the Monarch’s Christmas address.  It is the articulation of our new present. A different King and a different speech; not
New ‘queer’ carol: Cardinal Nichols expresses concern
December 22, 2022
You might think that Christmas could be nothing but Christian, but that would be to underestimate not only the dulling numbing of secular holidaying, but also the more serious insidious wokery that has sprung up to challenge it. Cardinal Nichols is alone amongst Christian leaders (so far) to have spoken out on Times Radio about the
Christmas is an antidote to our pampered, egotistical culture
December 21, 2022
It is no longer fashionable to preach on the “Four Last Things” during Advent. Death, judgement, hell and heaven are not easy to digest for many immured in the Christmas shopping season.  This may be a pity, because we are in the middle of trying to subdue a vigorous secular heresy, made up of two  elements that
Pope warns race-baiters against ‘appropriation’ of Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 16, 2022
On the Feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe earlier this week, Pope Francis, celebrating in the Vatican, offered some helpful insights into how her apparition might be celebrated. As the world has become increasingly hyper-sensitive to issues of race, the skin colour of Mary as our Lady of Guadalupe has become a politicised issue.
The rise of Protestantism in Latin America
December 12, 2022
Liberation Sexuality is no more successful than Liberation Theology, writes Gavin Ashenden “The Vatican is losing the largest Catholic country in the world: it’s a huge, irreversible loss,” said José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, a renowned Brazilian demographer and former professor at the national statistics agency. At the current rate, he estimates that Catholics will make up
Podcast 29: In defence of ex-Anglicans with Dr Michael Nazir-Ali
December 09, 2022
Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester who became a Catholic in 2021, joins Dr Gavin Ashenden for this 29th episode of Merely Catholic, the podcast series for the Catholic Herald. Now a member of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Monsignor Nazir-Ali sets out his views of synodality and he
Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state
December 07, 2022
The shift in religious and Christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. Suddenly, numbers, being implacable as they are, tell us that those who identify as Christian are fewer than 50 per cent of the population according to the latest census. There is no earthquake,
Why I’m now convinced Shakespeare was a Catholic
December 02, 2022
To believe, or not to believe, asks Gavin Ashenden
Cardinal Sarah issues warning on religious freedom
December 01, 2022
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” insisted Winston Churchill. Less famously, he went on to say that the best argument against it is a five minute conversation with the average voter. The Church has never expected from democracy more than it can deliver, but it has valued it for
Podcast 27: The Spirit and Meaning of Vatican II with Mark Lambert
November 25, 2022
In the 27th episode of Merely Catholic, the podcast series for The Catholic Herald, Dr Gavin Ashenden reflects on the gulf between the so-called “spirit of Vatican II” and the contents of the documentation agreed by the participating Church fathers. Click here to listen He is joined by Catholic commentator Mark Lambert, author of a
The Synod can never achieve its aim of making the Church ‘Catholic in a different way’
November 25, 2022
Bishop Georg Bätzing, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), has explained what he wants the German Synodal Path to achieve. “We are Catholic,” he said at a news conference. “But we want to be Catholic in a different way.”  It may be that Bishop Bätzing has not come across the old German proverb “du kannst
How ‘victimhood’ is destroying the Church
November 23, 2022
A misguided quest for equality in the Church is driving us further and further away from God, writes Gavin Ashenden As with chess, so with battles that the Church is engaged with at the hands of a hostile secular culture, there are just a few basic opening moves. In chess it’s often the “Rudy Lopez”,
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