Christmas brought out the best in GK Chesterton
December 20, 2018
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Every year for more than 30 years, GK Chesterton wrote five or six articles and a number of poems about
The message of a boiled pudding
December 21, 2017
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Christmas, we all know (despite the common belief of non-Christians), is not the most important feast of the Christian year.
The Maltese Church once defied secularisation. Now its bishops have surrendered
February 3, 2017
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The Maltese bishops’ guidelines on Communion mean that secular culture has triumphed over the Church
The gift of Joseph Ratzinger
December 22, 2016
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How does one begin to enter into such a mind as that of Joseph Ratzinger? How does one enter –
We are all entitled to our political views: but should the US elections be so angry and so personal?
February 12, 2016
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Things on the campaign trail are getting ugly (as well as grossly expensive). Is this all really unavoidable?
Archive: Five years ago Benedict XVI routed his enemies and brought joy to the British faithful
September 16, 2015
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We republish the following blog, originally published on September 20, 2010, to mark the fifth anniversary of Benedict’s papal visit to Britain
‘The Church saves us’, I wrote: I am told that actually it is Jesus Christ. How many Catholics think like Protestants?
August 24, 2015
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The Church, rightly perceived, is a thing of divine wonder, even though it so often looks like a thing of earth
The Pope’s spokesman says he is ‘confused’. Few understand this pontificate: but it’s the Church that saves us
August 13, 2015
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This Pope doesn’t ‘do’ doctrine. His particular vocation as Supreme Pontiff may not be established for many years
Here we go again: another ill-informed attack on Bishop Egan and the Friars of the Immaculate
August 6, 2015
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This sort of thing used to happen all the time: are we now to expect a renewal of the Tablet’s old anti-traditionalist hostility?
The German bishops have declared independence from Rome on same-sex marriage: how far will the rot spread now?
August 6, 2015
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Are we witnessing the beginnings of an international campaign of defiance against the Catholic moral law?
Holy Communion for divorcees is again on the agenda: as the Synod approaches, the Pope Emeritus has quietly spoken again
July 30, 2015
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The ‘silent’ Pope Benedict has ways of being heard; and he is still being listened to
The premature sexualisation of our young has become a massive problem: what will the Church do about it?
July 28, 2015
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Underage girls are being fitted with contraceptive implants without parental consent: this has to stop