Masses cancelled and Confession impossible? We can still live the faith
March 19, 2020
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In a time of church closures, we need both faith and reason
Great Books courses are richly rewarding – but they have a fatal flaw
October 24, 2019
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How to Keep From Losing Your Mind By Deal Hudson Tan, 384pp, £22/$24.95 In the 1920s, some influential academics were
Did World War II undermine Catholicism?
August 1, 2019
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Mass Exodus By Stephen Bullivant OUP, 302pp, £25/$32.95 Why Catholics Leave, What they Miss, and How They Might Return By
The Knights of Malta’s Mass ban is hardly chivalrous
June 20, 2019
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Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre, the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, has informed members that henceforth all Masses celebrated
Infiltration: an unconvincing tale of the Church’s enemies
June 13, 2019
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Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Catholic Church from Within By Taylor Marshall Crisis Publications 224pp, £19.75/$24.95 In 1846, Pope
How Agatha Christie helped to save the Latin Mass
November 1, 2018
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An unlikely intervention by England’s cultural luminaries rescued the Tridentine Mass from threatened extinction
How the Latin Mass was saved
November 1, 2018
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On November 26, 1971, the front page of the Universe informed its readers as follows: As from this Sunday, the
Gregorian chant: the cultural front line of the new evangelisation
October 12, 2018
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The cultural and artistic value of chant exercises a powerful attraction
Bishops no longer understand each other
April 5, 2018
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In the 1973 film Catholics, Martin Sheen – playing a Jesuit come to bring a remote traditionalist monastery to heel
How observing the Ember Days can enhance your spiritual life
December 20, 2017
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Ember days are a particularly ancient and rich part of the Church’s liturgical patrimony
Joseph Shaw: After the ‘liturgy wars’, a pluralistic truce?
August 31, 2017
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Pope Francis’s recent address on the liturgy – about which he has hitherto said little – was striking for its
Want your parish to close? Set up a ‘crying room’
August 26, 2017
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A parish that segregates people who had the temerity to produce children doesn’t deserve another generation of members