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November 10, 2022

Victorian Crusaders: British and Irish Volunteers in the Papal Army, 1860-1870 by Nicholas Schofield Helion & Co, 223 pages, £29.95 If one wants to understand why the shibboleth of Papal Infallibility intruded itself into European affairs in the last third of the 19th century, then one has to take seriously the matter of Italian reunification,

Ron DeSantis: a different kind of Catholic President?

November 10, 2022

Two big takeaways emerged from the US midterms. The first was that the Democrats were not obliterated by a Republican “red wave”. The second was the effective crowning of Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, as the unofficial new leader of the GOP and its likely candidate for the 2024 Presidential election. DeSantis, who has been Governor

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI to defend himself against claims he covered up priest’s sex abuse.

November 10, 2022

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI will give evidence in court against a civil claim that he was negligent in his handling of a clerical abuse case in Germany. Benedict, former Archbishop of Munich and Freising, is expected to submit a written testimony in defence of his treatment of Fr Peter Hullerman, a priest who continued to

Catholics loan St Chad’s relic to Anglicans

November 10, 2022

(Photograph of St Chad’s relic courtesy of the Archdiocese of Birmingham) The Catholic Church has presented Anglican Lichfield Cathedral with a relic of St Chad, an Anglo-Saxon monk whose shrine was desecrated in the Protestant Reformation. The relic, which was preserved secretly by Catholic recusants, was transferred from St Chad’s Catholic Cathedral in Birmingham to

The Synodal Way: ‘Consulting with the people of God is different from coming under pressure from activists’

November 10, 2022

We must not put all our faith in structures, urges Michael Nazir-Ali It is Christ who makes the Church, Christ who renews the Church, and Christ who reforms the Church. In the Letter to the Ephesians, St Paul tells us that “Christ fills his Church with all his fullness [pleroma]”; later, in Colossians, he writes