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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

Why I quit UK politics to try and become a Catholic priest

The Covid pandemic was perhaps the moment when I began to think seriously about it. As we came out of lockdown and picked up the pieces of pre-pandemic life, this sense of needing to make a change came back strongly

James Somerville-Meikle

On playing advocatus diaboli: a reflection on Saint John Henry Newman

Reviving a legacy: inside the Challoner Club’s grand inaugural Mass and reception

The greatest love of all: meaning, sacrifice & our declining birth rate

UK birth rate collapse reminds us of Christ’s call to sacrificial love

Faith, freedom and politics: Christians and public life

Kemi Badenoch and the problem of evil

The Tory leader told an interviewer this week that it was the monstrous crimes of Josef Fritzl which caused her to cast aside her Christian faith

A Christian defence of JK Rowling

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

EXCLUSIVE: Connor Estelle (Pinesap) responds to accusations of fascism, supporting Franco, and being a Groyper

Pinesap unpacks faith, politics and backlash after Jubilee debate.

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

A slogan on a wall: War Pigs

Gareth Hurley recalls Cardiff graffiti, Ozzy Osbourne, Catholic faith, and opposition to unjust wars.

St Andrews in Holborn, Shakespeare and a bishop

Rerum novarum and the age of AI

Travis Callaway

We are letting AI relieve us of the burden of thought – and with it our capacity to love

There’s no bigger threat today to the life of the mind and the love that grounds it than the alternative world of non-thought that AI tools are creating

Catholic schools were not founded to serve public opinion or to bend to the dominant cultural winds

The mission of Catholic education is at a crossroads as it tries to figure out its role in a new era of great change

Michael Merrick

Why is the UK giving charitable status to Islamic organisations that support blasphemy laws?

Islamic charities in the UK are being granted offical charitable status despite promoting practises relating to sharia and blasphemy laws

Georgia Gilholy

Andrew Tate’s empire of cowardice meets Matt Walsh’s gospel of grit

Katherine Bennett

Getting smashed in the face by the patriarchy!

Katherine Bennett

Vestments without grace: ‘The Gospel according to Gabbana’

Dolce & Gabbana's Rome show reimagines Catholic liturgy as fashion, stunning but spiritually hollow.

Dr Aoife Caitríona Lau

'Voice of Reason' scandal shows you can't make saints out of influencers

The aftermath of a scandal often reveals as much about a culture as the scandal itself.

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