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The ‘right to sex’ was a step too far for the Supreme Court, but they still have questions to answer

November 29, 2021
Andrew Tettenborn

In our pursuit of autonomy, we have divorced ourselves from moral agency, says Andrew Tettenborn

The European Union’s attack on conscience

November 11, 2021
Andrew Tettenborn

As its row with Poland intensifies, the EU has passed an abortion resolution that betrays an alarming strain of anti-religious feeling

The Pope missed a golden opportunity at his meeting with Joe Biden

October 30, 2021
Ken Craycraft

Pope Francis failed to show any pastoral responsibility at his meeting with the US President

Sayonara to the suit

September 14, 2021
Nick Thomas

Has the pandemic got the better of the business two-piece?

Squabbling over the Old Rite

August 29, 2021
Niall Gooch

The internal debate about the Latin Mass has little effect on the Church’s outreach and is unlikely to reverse the decline of Catholicism in the West

Suppression of the Traditional Rite

August 26, 2021
Jaspreet Singh Boparai

With the clergy seemingly intent on blotting out tradition, the Church finds itself engaged in another unedifying culture war

Kneel before God, not the NHS

August 20, 2021
Gavin Ashenden

Former Anglican priest Gavin Ashenden is disappointed by the promotion of secular worship by the Church of England

The Vatican’s trials: Pell’s Redemption

August 04, 2021
Melanie McDonagh

Melanie McDonagh on how the Vatican Trial of the century highlights the injustice to Cardinal Pell

Threats to the Extraordinary Form

August 01, 2021
The Catholic Herald

Pope Benedict lived up to his title of pontifex, or bridge-builder, when he allowed the wider use of the Tridentine rite – more properly the Extraordinary Form of the Mass – in the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum of 2007. There has been 13 years for this concession to advance its stated aim: to foster reconciliation

Mending a fractured American Church

July 30, 2021
The Catholic Herald

The US Bishops’ Conference is to issue a teaching document “on the beauty and power of the Eucharist”. It is overdue. In 2019, a Pew survey suggested that barely a third of US Catholics believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This is a scandal, evidence of a failure of grassroots catechisis,

The Extraordinary Form: a call to arms

July 29, 2021
Joseph Shaw

Rumours have been circulating that Pope Francis is planning some kind of restriction on the Extraordinary Form of the Mass (EF), the “Traditional Mass”. This form of the liturgy clearly still has opponents in the Church. Its supporters regard it as, potentially, being a key driver of the Church’s revival, because of the counter-cultural zeal

Four Reasons Francis had to restrict the traditional Latin Mass

July 21, 2021
Msgr Eric Barr

This opinion piece will not be tactfully phrased. Many essays in the past few days have tried to balance both positive and negative views of Traditionis Custodes, the new motu proprio issued by Pope Francis concerning the traditional Latin Mass. This article reflects my experience from the trenches. (I was my diocese’s vicar for clergy

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