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Gavin Ashenden
Pope Leo’s magnificent but incomplete anthropology
The Holy Father articulated a compelling vision of human dignity before Spain’s parliament, but his speech also raises deeper questions about belonging, culture and Christendom
Henry Nowak and the limits of secular idealism
The modern obsession with racism rests upon a flawed understanding of human nature, while Christianity offers a more demanding ethic centred on the love of neighbour
The fire that remakes
The Church’s great mystics understood that the Holy Spirit does not preserve complacency, but breaks open the soul in order to renew it
Can moral authority still restrain technological power?
Pope Leo XIV’s intervention on artificial intelligence raises urgent questions about power, responsibility and whether anyone shaping the future of AI is still willing to listen
From illusion to truth: entering the drama of Lent
The 40 days of Lent echo the Flood, Sinai and the wilderness. In Christ, that ancient pattern of testing becomes our participation in His victory
Is King Charles failing his constitutional duty?
As King Charles’s personal enthusiasms collide with free speech, questions arise about whether preference is being placed above duty
Why I am not a Catholic priest: Deus vult
Gavin Ashenden, former continuing Anglican bishop and convert, explains why he chose not to be ordained in the Catholic Church
The Holy Innocents and the violence of a fallen world
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
Joseph’s dilemma over Mary reminds us that faith never comes without risk
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
The Third Sunday of Advent and the challenge of patience
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 not to blame
The Second Vatican Council is now 60 years old. But for all the disputes, real rupture came from an inadequately catechised clergy
The unexpected guides who led me to the Catholic faith
The two modern thinkers, a Catholic historian and a secular psychiatrist, that led Gavin Ashenden to Catholicism.
The mind of the Pope – reflections on the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage
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.
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