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Merely Catholic Podcast: Re-imagining English Catholicism

December 15, 2022

Dr Serenhedd James joins Gavin Ashenden for this 30th episode of Merely Catholic

Boris Johnson refuses to say whether he is a practicing Catholic

June 14, 2021

Questions have swirled around UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s religious affiliation in the wake of his marriage to long-time partner in a private ceremony in the Catholic cathedral at Westminster at the end of last month. He was the first prime minister to marry in office since Robert Banks Jenkinson in 1822, and only the

How to save the English Church

January 04, 2018

The solution is staring the bishops in the face

An accidental pilgrimage

June 30, 2016

I touched down from America hoping only for a few good dinners. But I found hints everywhere of British Catholicism's surprising vitality

As we shut the door of my mother’s house, a little piece of Catholic England vanished

November 19, 2015

Being an English Catholic in the first two thirds of the 20th century was rather like being Jewish

England is getting less Irish by the day

June 04, 2015

The Irish Catholicism that used to define so many English cities now seems as remote as Newman and Manning