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Vatican summons SSPX superior after bishops consecration announcement

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández will meet the SSPX superior in Rome after the Society announced plans to consecrate bishops without papal mandate

The SSPX episcopal consecrations and the wider traditionalist movement

Peter Thiel’s katechon theology: technological advancement is the enemy of tyranny

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Ascension and Fr Columba collaborate to create Crux: a Lenten journey of surrender

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We live by men’s rhythms, but God gave women their own

Rediscovering risk: Lessons from the parable of the talents

Declan J. Ganley

Caravaggio's the taking of Christ: a masterpiece shaped by violence

Fr Gavan Jennings

Hospitality as a way of life

Renewal: what happened to that?

God, country and family: the virtues liberalism forgets

Why I would lie to the Nazis at the door

Clement Harrold

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We live by men’s rhythms, but God gave women their own

God, country and family: the virtues liberalism forgets

Why I would lie to the Nazis at the door

Clement Harrold

The rise of anti-romance culture

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Schwarzenegger and Confession, and more returns to papal customs

Fake news, papal trips and a return to tradition

Vatican dispatch: Leo rebukes Orwellian ideologies and a consistory leak reignites the liturgy wars

Cardinal Roche’s consistory document on the Traditional Latin Mass revealed

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We live by men’s rhythms, but God gave women their own

Rediscovering risk: Lessons from the parable of the talents

Declan J. Ganley

Hospitality as a way of life

Aquinas says: your property is not your own

Why young people struggle to make life-shaping decisions

Kerri Christopher

Self-improvement is not salvation

Why are we all exhausted? Genesis gives a clue

Suddenly Amish: why the Amish have got it right

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We live by men’s rhythms, but God gave women their own

Modern life is structured around male biological patterns, but the female body follows a different rhythm that deserves recognition, respect and theological seriousness

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Ascension and Fr Columba collaborate to create Crux: a Lenten journey of surrender

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Caravaggio's the taking of Christ: a masterpiece shaped by violence

Fr Gavan Jennings

The rule of life Christ gave the world

On the Sermon on the Mount

St Augustine of Hippo

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What Siegfried Sassoon still teaches us about war and conscience

As Britain’s military leadership calls for national mobilisation in the face of new threats, the experience of the First World War offers a sobering reminder of how easily moral certainty can harden into moral blindness

Anthony McCarthy

Review: St John Henry Newman: A New Doctor of the Church

Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints: Suicidal empathy is not Christian

The curious Catholic comedy of James Donald Forbes McCann

The poetry and priesthood of Fr Joseph Evans

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Pope Leo: A Bridge-Builder

In his first months, Leo XIV looks like a listener: he calls synodality an attitude of openness, maintains Church teaching on marriage and sexuality, and signals cautious openness to broader Latin Mass celebration. The aim is less polarisation, deeper dialogue, a bridge builder who consults widely and will lead decisively.

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A Lost Chance for Ireland

Elites blocked Maria Steen’s candidacy, narrowing democracy and silencing Catholic conservatives’ voices.

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All Saints’ Eve

Halloween’s vigil confronts death with Christian hope, not fear or superstition today.

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AI: helping angel or diabolic machine?

Pope Leo’s warnings and hopes for AI, probing dignity, labour, justice, and Church responsibilities for governing algorithms.

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Sr Camilla and her merry band of nuns

Christianity is a civilising force in a polarised world

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