Stephen Bullivant, Author at Catholic Herald

Stephen Bullivant

The scary truth about young Europeans and the Church

March 22, 2018

New figures show the scale of the challenge facing the bishops at this year's youth synod

March 22, 2018

In his 2003 exhortation Ecclesia in Europa, Pope John Paul II addressed at length the “de-Christianisation of vast areas of the European continent”. Citing Christ’s query as to whether, upon his return, he would find faith left on earth (Luke 18:8), the Polish saint asked: “Will he find faith in our countries, in this Europe

England has hundreds of forgotten martyrs. Let’s bring back our devotion to them

February 02, 2018

The sheer numbers of martyrs mean there is scope for fostering some very local devotions

How to save the English Church

January 04, 2018

The solution is staring the bishops in the face

English Catholicism’s real crisis

January 04, 2018

Let’s begin with some truths universally acknowledged about the Catholic Church in Britain (and many places elsewhere too). We have fewer priests now than we used to. The average age of the ones we do have is higher than it once was. There are more priestly retirements (or deaths) each year than ordinations. A number

This year, I’ve come to appreciate just how vulnerable the baby Jesus was

December 15, 2017

The Creed’s affirmation that the Son of God 'became man' has hit me with full force in the past few days

We won’t live to see Europe’s Christian revival – but it will happen

October 19, 2017

Bl John Henry Newman teaches us to wait patiently for the good fruits of our labours

We won’t live to see Europe’s Christian revival

October 19, 2017

The phrase “new evangelisation” gets thrown around a great deal these days. And St John Paul II’s demand for an evangelisation that is “new in its ardour, methods and expression” is often quoted. But while much attention has been devoted to methods and expression, I think we need to ask ourselves some difficult questions about

The Church of England may be in decline, but it’s got at least one thing right

October 18, 2017

The Anglicans have detailed statistics on what they're up against. Maybe Catholics should do the same

The urgent message of Fatima’s Third Secret

October 13, 2017

Even if the imagery is not to be taken literally, we should never ignore the call to repentance

There’s nothing wrong with calling Benedict XVI ‘Pope Emeritus’

October 07, 2017

Some assert that his title and dress are far too confusing, but this is nonsense

Calm down about the Pope Emeritus

October 05, 2017

If you’re anything like me, then you’ll be sick and tired of a certain kind of Catholic pedant. You know the sort. Obsessed with the precise rubrics of clerical dress. Convulsed with horror at perceived misuses of traditional titles and honorifics: “Mgr So-and-so is wearing the wrong colour socks! … Doesn’t His Eminence know that

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