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Discovering the Gothic foundations of Faith

June 25, 2022
Thomas Colsy

The Catholic Faith closely reflects a Gothic cathedral; it’s not a simple thing. And, in the same vein a great cathedral is built, none of this happened overnight.

The murder of Christians in Nigeria has nothing to do with ‘climate change’

June 21, 2022
Simon Caldwell

Simon Caldwell reflects on the West's ineptitude to recognise and deal with genuine crises

War on Ukraine: A coordinated Catholic approach

June 13, 2022
Michael J. La Civita

Until the Russian military escalated its buildup along the Ukrainian frontier earlier this year, the relationship between the Polish and Ukrainian states since the collapse of the Soviet Union had been marked by periods of cooperation punctuated with occasional disputes. These disparities seemed to be gathering steam as of late as both countries have struggled

Granny’s lace – why is Pope Francis so unsupportive of ordinary clergy?

June 13, 2022
Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB

If faith, as the nuns said, was the substance of things hoped for, then lace was the outline—the suggestion—of things not seen. —Iris Anthony, The Ruins of Lace (2012) From time to time it seems as though Pope Francis can’t resist the urge to tell priests off in his speeches; he’s not afraid to employ mockery and sarcasm,

Poland ‘pregnancy register’ highlights culture clash within EU

June 10, 2022
Staff Reporter

Despite insistences from officials that it represents no such thing, the Government of Poland is currently facing a tremendous backlash against what critics are calling a “pregnancy register” which requires doctors to record every pregnancy within the country. Doctors must now record information, including past or current illnesses, medical visits, treatments and blood type. For

Why the overturning of Roe v Wade could reopen the abortion debate in Ireland

May 26, 2022
Dualta Roughneen

The first paragraph of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade states: Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply-conflicting views. Replace America with Ireland, and the same has been the case for over 40 years, until recently. As of the past few years, the issue of abortion

There is no human right to abortion

May 24, 2022
David Albert Jones

In 1973 in the Roe v Wade case, the Supreme Court legalised abortion throughout the United States. Now, almost fifty years later the same court is considering overturning that judgement and returning abortion law to the states to decide. Media reporting of this case, especially in Europe, has been quite misleading. Often journalists have simply repeated

Light a candle for St Benet’s Hall

May 18, 2022
Damian Collins

Once gone, St Benet’s Hall will be impossible to replace, writes alumnus Damian Collins MP Like all current and former students of St Benet’s Hall I was distressed to read the statement from the Master this week that the Hall may no longer hold a licence from the University of Oxford beyond the current academic

Critics of Mother Teresa don’t have a clue about poverty

May 11, 2022
Dualta Roughneen

Attacking the reputation of a Catholic saint, no longer alive to defend herself (although it’s unlikely she would bother in any case), is a popular sport. Christopher Hitchens set the tone in 1995 with his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and since then it has been open house on one of the Catholic

What really happened with the ‘gay author’ and John Fisher School

May 07, 2022
Simon Caldwell

SINCE Simon James Green, the homosexual author of ‘teen fiction’, was prevented from promoting his latest book at a Catholic secondary school, he has been depicted as a victim, a tragic and misunderstood defender of the rights of LGBT+ children. Green likes to present himself in this way. It is how he sees himself. In a recent

Roe v Wade leak was an act of shameless intimidation

May 06, 2022
Laura Perrins

Well, we knew it would get ugly but the left in America have gone full mafia tactics with the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Never in the history of the court has a draft opinion been leaked. This smashes the constitutional norms of the court and the

Russian nuclear orthodoxy

April 26, 2022
Mark Jenkins

For Patriarch Kirill nuclear weapons are necessary for salvation, explains Mark Jenkins Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, is a practising Russian Orthodox believer who often accompanies President Putin on visits to Orthodox monasteries in remote areas across the Russian Federation. At the entrance to Moscow’s Red Square the small Iveron Chapel is said to

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