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Every year for more than 30 years, GK Chesterton wrote five or six articles and a number of poems about Christmas. Chesterton’s friend and...
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The Maltese bishops' guidelines on Communion mean that secular culture has triumphed over the Church
The gift of Joseph Ratzinger
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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
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?
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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
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August 13, 2015
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
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
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
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
Underage girls are being fitted with contraceptive implants without parental consent: this has to stop
Christmas brought out the best in GK Chesterton
December 20, 2018
Every year for more than 30 years, GK Chesterton wrote five or six articles and a number of poems about Christmas. Chesterton’s friend and...
The message of a boiled pudding
December 21, 2017
Christmas, we all know (despite the common belief of non-Christians), is not the most important feast of the Christian year. We know that that...
The Maltese Church once defied secularisation. Now its bishops have surrendered
February 3, 2017
The Maltese bishops' guidelines on Communion mean that secular culture has triumphed over the Church
The gift of Joseph Ratzinger
December 22, 2016
How does one begin to enter into such a mind as that of Joseph Ratzinger? How does one enter – more importantly – into...
We are all entitled to our political views: but should the US elections be so angry and so personal?
February 12, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Underage girls are being fitted with contraceptive implants without parental consent: this has to stop
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