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Europe’s liberal governing classes would have endless mass-migration and the ‘self destruction’ of traditional Europe: Catholic teaching shows us how to avoid both

April 04, 2024

What’s really behind the “migrant crisis”? Is it even a “crisis” anymore or has a normality been begrudgingly accepted that the borders of the ancient nations of Europe are now completely porous to the multitudes, which invariably includes criminals, terrorists and persons with no intention of assimilating to the religious or cultural landscape in which

Merely Catholic Podcast: Farewell Cardinal Pell, ‘a great defender of the faith’

January 20, 2023

Dr Gavin Ashenden is joined this week by Edward Pentin, the distinguished English Catholic journalist and veteran Rome correspondent, to discuss the triumphs and tribulations of Cardinal George Pell, a giant of the Catholic Church who died suddenly last week following routine surgery

Merely Catholic: The Power of the Rings

October 21, 2022

JRR Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, is arguably the most read book in the world today. It is also a myth infused by the author’s deep Catholic understanding, imagination and faith. In this 22nd episode of the Merely Catholic, the podcast series for The Catholic Herald, Dr Gavin Ashenden talks to Tolkien aficionado Ferdie Rous,

Merely Catholic: When Faith is Sacrificed to Fashion with Ann Widdecombe

July 22, 2022

Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative Cabinet Minister and MEP for the Brexit Party, speaks to fellow Catholic convert Dr Gavin Ashenden, in this 14th episode of the Merely Catholic podcast series for the Catholic Herald about the future of the Church of England to which they both once belonged. Miss Widdecombe says Anglicanism is terminally