Interview

Interview: Benedict XVI's abiding inspiration is ‘the gentle force of Catholic thought’

diane montagna interviews an italian priest and academic who knew pope benedict what is pope benedict xvi’s legacy? why was he able to inspi...

How the gender ideology war is destroying the lives of young girls

julie is 14. she sees gender ideology as a kind of social contagion:  "controversial gender ideology has taken over my school. there's ...

Quarr Abbey monk on the meaning of identity

since time immemorial, pilgrims have been travelling to islands to meet holy men and women, and so it was that i found myself heading for qu...

Our Lady and the Holy Spirit

as the latest pew research census has shown that the catholic church is haemorrhaging people to pentecostalism in south america, it has to p...

The Rupnik Scandal: the Jesuit must stand trial, says New York canonist

father marko rupnik at a private audience with pope francis at the apostolic palace on january 3, 2022 (vatican media) (rome) fr marko ...

The Rupnik Scandal: Leading canonist dissects handling of startling case

(rome) ever since the fr rupnik scandal broke earlier this month — alleging that the slovenian jesuit artist serially abused women religious...

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...

CCLA leads calls for large UK companies to provide cost of living support to low paid

( photograph of peter hugh smith courtesy of ccla ) a 17-strong investor coalition has called for the largest uk companies to provide better...

The Synod can never achieve its aim of making the Church 'Catholic in a different way'

bishop georg bätzing, the head of the german bishops’ conference (dbk), has explained what he wants the german synodal path to ach...

Liberals are wrong to push for the ordination of women

i was once in conversation with a man so desperately concerned with women’s rights that he soon put me in my place for defending the male pr...

Katherine Bennett