SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
Colin Brazier
Leticia Ochoa Adams
Leticia Ochoa Adams
Lucas Hollweg
Are the Holy Father’s informal and often confusing methods of communication undermining the teaching authority of his office? Is a period of papal reserve now overdue?
June 05, 2014
Pope Francis is popular with the secular media because they think he’s about to abandon the disciplines of the Church; and they have built him up by denigrating Benedict XVI
Now we know why Dawkins refused to sign that letter from atheists condemning Cameron’s ‘we are a Christian country’: could he be on the way to belief?
May 30, 2014
Belief in the theory of evolution is no reason for atheism as Dawkins supposes: Darwin himself insisted that the had never been an atheist
Was Protect the Pope really divisive? Or was it rather those whom Deacon Nick believed were undermining the teachings of the Church?
May 19, 2014
Protect the Pope was always feisty, either in defence of the Church against secularist attack, or against enemies of Catholic truth and discipline within the Church
Why Rowan Williams is much more comfortable as an academic than he was as an archbishop; and why he should never have gone to Canterbury in the first place
May 01, 2014
If we really have to have an established Church, its head needs to take the defence of basic Christianity quite seriously
Why, in today’s paper, I wrote that it was Pope John Paul who made it possible for me (with many others) at last to be received into the Church
April 25, 2014
He re-established the simple but immense fact of the Church’s authority to declare the objective truth of Catholic doctrine
John Paul II set the barque back on course
April 24, 2014
Pope John Paul’s major achievement for the Church was to recover Pope John’s original purpose: to “guard” and to teach more efficaciously “the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine”
Should Pope Francis have abandoned the trappings of his office? The media image now is of a pontiff rejecting the traditions of the Church
April 11, 2014
Pope Benedict was no less a pontiff of profound personal humility because he wore red shoes and lived in the papal apartments
What will the synod on the family decide about Holy Communion for remarried divorcees wrongly denied an annulment? As Pope Benedict says ‘mistakes occur’
April 04, 2014
What we need is an intelligent application of the science of casuistry: after all, we have a Jesuit Pope: Jesuits are supposed to be good at it
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