Benedict’s statement lays bare the Church’s divisions
He must have felt he was saying something absolutely vital that was going unsaid
Coco Chanel, the Savonarola of fashion
Post-conciliar liturgical aesthetics come from the same logic as Chanel’s elitism
Newman’s most savage critic was a herald of the sexual revolution
Charles Kingsley anticipated countless people today who see sex as transcendent
A new persecution has begun – and with it, a subtle temptation
The danger to Western Christians doesn’t come from sword-and-sandals tyrants, but from an enforced code of etiquette
Pope Francis has followed a similar path to Pius IX
Both popes were hailed as liberal reformers and laboured under huge expectations. But there are also profound differences
The genius of Richard John Neuhaus
On the 10th anniversary of Fr Neuhaus’s death, Matthew Schmitz remembers how he used conversation to draw people to God
