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Theology, liturgy, and the slow questions. The kind of writing you read twice.
In Pictures: Ann Widdecombe’s Funeral at Buckfast Abbey
Friends and family gathered at Buckfast Abbey for the Requiem Mass of former cabinet minister and prominent Catholic convert Ann Widdecombe
The Catholic Herald
Synodalism is an anachronism
By drawing the laity into official Church structures, synodalism misunderstands both Vatican II and the realities of modern civil society
Msgr Martin Grichting
The Week Ahead: Attacks on Christians in the Holy Land, surrogacy debates and the Knock Novena
Attacks on Christians, Ukraine peace efforts, pilgrimages and US debates over abortion and surrogacy feature in the week ahead
The Catholic Herald
NFP and IVF: two visions of human love
The debate over IVF is not simply about reproductive technology, but about whether human life is something to be received or an outcome to be achieved
Michael J Robinson
Our elites need to rediscover stewardship
The old ideal of the wealthy as stewards of society has faded, but Catholics can begin rebuilding a culture of responsibility, generosity and magnanimity
Silas Mähner
The bed at the heart of the Odyssey
Penelope’s test of the marriage bed is more than an exhibition of guile: it is the beating heart of the Odyssey
Fr Gavan Jennings
Do Catholics have an inbuilt advantage in the age of AI?
In an age of increasingly impersonal commerce, Catholic businesses may be uniquely placed to meet the growing demand for work and products shaped by human dignity and care
Silas Mähner
Betraying the abolitionists
The Church of England’s £100 million reparations scheme turns a complex history of slavery and abolition into a doctrine of inherited guilt and permanent moral debt
Gavin Ashenden
How Amnesty turned against its founder’s vision
Peter Benenson warned that Amnesty would fail if it fell under the control of an ideology; Catholics should consider whether that day has arrived
David Hahn
The spiritual vacuum facing Generation Z
The debate about generational inequality often overlooks the moral and spiritual inheritance passed on to today’s young adults
Ruadhan Jones
Wildfires in the Curia
Are arsonists doing their worst to prevent the Pope from lifting restrictions on the traditional liturgy?
Dom Alcuin Reid
Can Rome and the East heal the Great Schism?
Dmitri Solzhenitsyn offers a historically informed and cautiously hopeful account of the obstacles to reunion between Catholics and Orthodox
David P Deavel
The cathedral of diminished expectations
What the new design for the Catholic cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, reveals about a Church shaped by restraint, uncertainty and financial pressure
Andrew Cusack
How JD Vance became a Catholic
The American Vice President’s memoir is not the story of a return to the Evangelicalism of his childhood but of a gradual discovery of Catholicism through Augustine, Leo XIII and the Church's social teaching
Melanie McDonagh
WeBelieve: A ‘second spring’ for English Catholicism?
Amid concern about Mass attendance and priestly vocations, a growing Catholic festival offered grounds for hope
David Hahn
Humanae Vitae and the world it predicted
As the West confronts loneliness, falling birth rates and fractured relationships, ‘Humanae Vitae’ reads less like a relic than a diagnosis
Michael J Robinson
In Pictures: Faithful pack Oscott for WeBelieve Festival
The sold-out WeBelieve Festival offered liturgy, talks, music and family activities in a joyful celebration of Catholic life
The Catholic Herald
As Pope Leo returns to work, he needs our prayers
The challenges awaiting the Holy Father demand courage, wisdom, faithful collaborators and the renewed assistance of our prayers
Dom Alcuin Reid
Longanimity: the Christian virtue Homer understood
Homer’s tale of homecoming reveals more than the perseverance of Odysseus, illuminating the neglected Christian virtue of longanimity that enables us to endure present trials for the sake of a distant good
Clement Harrold
The worst kind of Catholic politician
Britain has its first “Catholic” prime minister. Unfortunately the label survives contact with almost nothing the Church actually teaches
Edward Barrett-Shortt
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