Columns

Harry and Meghan epitomise the standard of an unbelieving world

the whole netflix watching world has been talking about harry and meghan this week.  the fact that their documentary, entitled - y...

Katherine Bennett

Podcast 29: In defence of ex-Anglicans with Dr Michael Nazir-Ali

monsignor michael nazir-ali, the former anglican bishop of rochester who became a catholic in 2021, joins dr gavin ashenden for this 29th ep...

Worth the wait: Piero’s "Nativity" unveiled in all its glory

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity , from the early 1480s, has returned to public display in the...

The kingdom of heaven is at hand: spending Advent well

“may the lord be in your heart and help you to confess your sins with true sorrow.” what prevents us from doing that? we won’t confess our s...

Fr Mark Vickers

Christmas reading 2022

antonia fraser someone once said, channelling shakespeare’s hamlet: “there’s nothing good nor bad, but christmas makes it worse.” i can only...

The Catholic Herald

How 'victimhood' is destroying the Church

a misguided quest for equality in the church is driving us further and further away from god , writes gavin ashenden as with chess, so with ...

Synodality – an exercise in misreading St John Henry Newman and 'Lumen gentium'

one consequence of writing for the catholic herald on the synodal process is that it seems to make some people excitably angry. when socrate...

The Synodal Way offers nothing more than 'quasi-Marxist content in a spiritual comfort blanket'

ex-anglicans have seen these tricks played on the church before, writes gavin ashenden in a recent article in another catholic publication, ...

The enduring confusion of America’s 'Wall of Separation Between Church and State'

new research by pew shows that the us public is as conflicted about the relationship of religion to public life as it always has been, write...

Lost and found

this month marks the centenary of the death of the french novelist marcel proust, an occasion for looking at how his work was influenced by ...