Gavin Ashenden

As King Charles’s personal enthusiasms collide with free speech, questions arise about whether preference is being placed above duty

Gavin Ashenden, former continuing Anglican bishop and convert, explains why he chose not to be ordained in the Catholic Church

The Feast of the Holy Innocents forces us to confront the cost of the Incarnation, as divine love enters a fallen world and exposes the violence, fear and pride that resist it

The Fourth Sunday of Advent invites us to inhabit a place where we learn to practise a greater degree of trust, a lesson exemplified in the story of Joseph’s betrothal to Mary and how he at first feared he had been tricked

Patience, Isaiah teaches, is not passive endurance but the place where God reshapes the human heart through time, mercy and the slow work of grace

The Second Vatican Council is now 60 years old. But for all the disputes, real rupture came from an inadequately catechised clergy

The two modern thinkers, a Catholic historian and a secular psychiatrist, that led Gavin Ashenden to Catholicism.

Pope Leo XIV’s quiet handling of the traditional Latin Mass may reveal more about his vision for unity than his critics imagine, as this year’s Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage stirs new conversations within the Church.

The Dean of Canterbury’s decision to fill England’s oldest cathedral with graffiti has provoked outrage among Christians worldwide, exposing the spiritual emptiness and disorder at the heart of the Church of England’s stewardship of sacred places.

Pope Leo should not be blamed for blessing frozen water. What made the outcome unholy rather than holy was the detachment of the chunk of Greenland ice from anything obviously connected to Jesus, at least in the minds of the activists

Pope Leo was asked about Cardinal Cupich’s award to the pro-abortionist Senator Dick Durbin. He then used the 'seamless garment' approach to Catholic ethics to link together abortion, immigration and the death penalty

The Pope has given an interview and revealed his mind. But the exercise to read his mind needs a little code-breaking