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The robots have taken over Notre Dame
From automated food delivery to optional safeguards, the university needs to get serious about protecting the wellbeing of its students
Clement Harrold
The Ordinariate at fifteen: rumours and reality
As the Ordinariate marks its anniversary, celebration gives way to clarification of its liturgical identity following unfounded rumours
Fr Mark Elliott Smith
A quiet renewal in Michigan
The Diocese of Lansing has seen notable renewal in recent years, a development its bishop attributes above all to God and faithful clergy
David Kerr
Crossing the Tiber: why some Anglican clergy hesitate
For Anglican clergy discerning conversion, questions of livelihood, formation and responsibility remain unresolved
Fr Michael Nazir-Ali
The Church of England is confused
Sarah Mullally’s elevation invites renewed debate over whether the Church of England still shares in the religious inheritance of early English Christianity
Thomas Colsy
Latin conquers all in America’s Catholic classrooms
As parents lose confidence in conventional schooling, Catholic classical schools are offering a rigorous alternative rooted in truth, beauty and goodness
William Morton
The Church and the dangers of bureaucracy
The experience of preparing candidates for Confirmation highlights how easily policies and procedures can displace pastoral judgement and distort the Church’s mission
Patrick Neve
Ireland’s unrest and the limits of liberal consensus
As demonstrations multiply across Ireland and the West, a Catholic perspective points to a crisis of meaning beneath the surface of public anger
Ruadhan Jones
The Church cannot afford to downplay sexual sin
Pope Leo is right to insist that morality is wider than sex alone, but that truth should not lead Catholics to minimise the profound social and spiritual damage of sexual sin
Anthony McCarthy
Pope Leo narrows the reading of Fiducia Supplicans
Without formally undoing Fiducia Supplicans, Pope Leo XIV appears to have drawn tighter limits around its interpretation and pastoral use
James Bradbury
Out with the ‘feel-good’, in with tradition
Parish life is taking on a renewed sense of reverence, as recent data points to a more conservative generation of younger priests
Jacqueline O'Hara
Rome must confront China’s persecution of Catholics
The Vatican’s cautious approach to Beijing is no longer tenable in the face of mounting repression
Benedict Rogers
Charity and limits: a Catholic case for restricting immigration
Catholic teaching on immigration is often reduced to a single imperative, but the tradition also affirms the duty of states to safeguard the common good
Luke Collins
Bishop Barron’s accidental liberalism
In seeking common ground, Bishop Barron’s account of just war and Church–state relations may unintentionally weaken the Church’s role in moral judgement
Patrick Neve
How St George became England’s patron saint
Long before modern arguments about identity, St George had already been claimed by England as a saint whose witness stood above blood, region and politics
Andrew Cusack
Born without ‘mama’: the inconvenient truth about surrogacy
A viral video prompts a harder question about what children are owed when motherhood is divided by design
Daisy-Mae Inglese
Lola Salem on… the Anglo-Gaullist mirage
As British thinkers reach for Gaullist inspiration, Lola Salem questions whether a borrowed myth can restore a nation increasingly unsure of its own story and inheritance
Lola Salem
Altar boys are back
As the Church reflects on the decision to allow girls to serve at the altar in the 1990s, some parishes are seeing a renewed emphasis on boys as servers
Fr Dwight Longenecker
Migration is being used to weaken Europe’s Christian identity
The senior bishop said Catholics should respond to threats to Europe’s Christian heritage with a movement to “save Europe”
Thomas Colsy
New report offers portrait of the men set to be ordained in the US in 2026
Research released with the US bishops provides a statistical snapshot of the seminarians due to be ordained in the United States this year
Thomas Colsy
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