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Michael Davis: In the US, even the left love Rees-Mogg
September 14, 2017
Most old-school conservatives in America have made their peace with Donald Trump, but they’re not about to accept him as their standard-bearer. They drew back in horror when the GOP nominated this braggadocious, thrice-married, non-observant Presbyterian. They looked on, mystified, as the Party of Reagan embraced protectionism, capitulated on same-sex marriage and sought rapprochement with
Guiltiness is good for you
September 07, 2017
Nothing quite irritates the spleen like that phrase “recovering Catholic”. It used to be that folks who drifted away from the Church were lapsed – not a phrase you hear much in, say, the Cof E, where it is assumed that one is not practising unless otherwise stated. Now everyone’s “recovering”, as if Catholicism were a
Why Catholic guilt is good for you
September 07, 2017
'Since becoming Catholic, I’ve fallen madly in love with the confessional'
The Vatican’s gamble on the East
August 24, 2017
Cardinal Pietro Parolin has been in Moscow this week, and Russia’s ambassador to the Holy See, Alexander Avdeev, is absolutely delighted. The two nations, he told La Stampa, share “a high level of mutual trust and a great harmony on many issues”. The Holy Father, he explained, is “very esteemed and loved by the citizens
Why the Vatican has set its sights on Moscow and Beijing
August 24, 2017
The Holy See is turning to the East. But the move could be very risky
Is it too easy to become a saint?
July 20, 2017
Critics say that a new path to canonisation lowers the bar, but it is less revolutionary than they think
Is it too easy to become a saint?
July 20, 2017
On July 11, Pope Francis issued the apostolic letter Maiorem hac dilectionem. The title is taken from Christ’s words in the Gospel of John: “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” In the letter, the Holy Father establishes a new path to sainthood: the oblatio
American Catholicism is being poisoned by factionalism
July 14, 2017
Bad faith between liberals and conservatives is causing debate to devolve into partisan sniping
The poisoning of American Catholicism
July 13, 2017
In February 2016, Pope Francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate Donald Trump. “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” the Holy Father told Mexican journalists. “This is not the Gospel.” On November 9
I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic
June 15, 2017
Autumn 2007 Haverhill, Massachusetts, is a rusty, decaying old industrial town. It peaked in the 1940s, when it was the hub of shoemaking and leather-tanning. Hitler wanted to bomb it so our boys on the Western Front would have to trudge through the brutal German winters without boots. The local gentry – lawyers and farmers
I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic
June 15, 2017
A friend convinced me to visit Boston's ordinariate community. What followed was a revelation
Francis and the revival of the Right
March 02, 2017
A year ago you would have been forgiven for thinking that, following a successful Brexit referendum, Ukip would begin its slow decline into obscurity. And you would have been quite wrong. “Ukip is a radical party, or it is nothing,” Nigel Farage wrote in the Daily Telegraph last week. His successor as leader, Paul Nuttall,
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