Gavin Ashenden

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

as i write this, fresh in from mass at a parish church not very far from mont saint-michel, i am recovering from chasing notes around my bra...

ten million children have been ‘disposed of’ since 1967. the verb we choose matters. because arguably the right word—the clearest, most accu...

Those who evoke the French saint ought to be telling the story as one which raises the expectation of a prophetic encounter with God, rather than settling for just another meme

the left is good at optics. the trads are not. the progressives—much more at home in the political than the spiritual—are excellent at spin ...

It is also the continuation of a political struggle to exercise administrative and governmental control over its citizenry

It is encouraging to discover the Pope’s determination to live in community and bring Augustinian spirituality to the heart and apex of the Catholic Church, beginning with the papal apartments

The saints, the Eucharist and the sacrament of reconciliation make new Catholics shout for joy. In reverse, it is hard to know what to say.

Pope Leo’s quiet first months leave Church awaiting decisive moves.

as it happened, a week ago or so, i was sitting in the well-upholstered and elegant library of st jean baptiste church in manhattan, in the ...