Samantha Smith

The UK government's puberty blocker experiment puts children at grave risk

A new UK clinical trial offering puberty blockers to children as young as ten takes little account of the facts or of what it means to be a child, writes Samantha Smith.

Why dating apps are not built for Christian marriage

In the algorithm’s pursuit of perfect matches, the acceptance of human imperfection has been lost. A quality essential to any lasting Christian marriage

Stop trying to baptise Halloween

While Halloween is now synonymous with drunken costume parties, slasher movies and hordes of little monsters pilfering candy from their beleaguered neighbours, this wasn’t always so. But neither was it ever (really) Catholic

The English pope and the American pontiff: Adrian IV and Leo XIV

A common-born Englishman once remade the papacy in the twelfth century. Nearly nine hundred years later, another unlikely Anglophone sits on the throne of St Peter. The parallels are hard to ignore.

The Catholic Church cannot ordain women: the Church is divine – and divinity doesn’t ‘adapt’  

Better to be called obstinate than to surrender the sacraments. Better to scandalise polite opinion than to mutilate what has been entrusted by God himself. Better to be decried as old-fashioned than to cease to be Catholic

The shooting of Charlie Kirk is a spiritual crisis, not just a political one

Canada’s Mennonites demonstrate how faith should instruct the political

As 'Gaudium et Spes' insists: 'the split between the faith which many profess and their daily lives deserves to be counted among the more serious errors of our age'

God, Gen Z and the Great British Divine Comeback

Faith returns as young people seek meaning in modern confusion.

Filipino vocations could redraw the future of Catholicism

The archipelagic country in Southeast Asia is poised to reshape Catholicism's clerical landscape, especially when the homelands of Europe languish in vocational decline

A Christian defence of JK Rowling

There is something curiously medieval about the modern inquisition against JK Rowling

Danny Kruger and the case for a Christian renewal in Britain

Samantha Smith recounts Danny Kruger’s Commons call for Britain’s Christian moral reawakening

The quiet tyranny of assisted suicide

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