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November 09, 2022

Fr Sean Sheehy’s homily was compassionate, not controversial

November 09, 2022

When Father Sean Sheehy gave a homily against sin and explained the importance of forgiveness, all hell broke loose. That’s if you actually believe in hell, which a fair few Irish priests, Catholics and Bishops, judging from their reaction to Fr Sheehy’s sermon, don’t seem to. As I explained at the time, it did not

Tributes paid to former Archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti, dead at 88

November 09, 2022

(Photograph by Marcin Mazur) Catholics in Scotland are mourning the death of Emeritus Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow who has died after a short illness. Archbishop Conti, 88, was admitted to the city’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he “died peacefully” on November 8. He had served as a priest for 64 years and as

The US midterms illustrate the deep ambivalence of voters about what issues matter most

November 09, 2022

The just-completed midterm elections in the United States are a proxy for the deep ambivalence of American voters about what issues matter most and who is best able to address them. In the United States, election day for federal legislators and the President is fixed by statute as the “Tuesday next after the first Monday

The Synodal Way offers nothing more than ‘quasi-Marxist content in a spiritual comfort blanket’

November 09, 2022

Ex-Anglicans have seen these tricks played on the Church before, writes Gavin Ashenden In a recent article in another Catholic publication, the prominent Catholic intellectual and biographer of Pope Francis, Austin Ivereigh has expressed anxieties about the influence of ex-Anglicans offering advice on the Synodal process to the journalist Christopher Lamb. Austin Ivereigh himself is much