Interview

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

The feast of Christ the King and the end of political life

the difficulty of reconciling christian faith with political life is as old as christianity itself. perhaps the most  explicit  qu...

'Synod', 'synod' and 'synodality': why we should be wary of poorly defined words

what do we mean by "synodal" or "synodality"? this is an important question as the church moves towards the conclusion of the synod on synod...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

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, ...

Review: 'My year with God' by Svend Brinkmann

my year with god is well-intentioned, but ultimately highlights the complacency at the heart of modern secular thinking, writes niall gooch ...

Is the Synodal Way a hostile take-over of the Church?

of all the voices raised in warning about an imminent coup threatening the catholic church, former head of the congregation for the doctrine...

Ukraine will keep fighting the good fight

the catholic principles of the just war are as valid today as ever they were, so it was heartening that the pope has reiterated their import...

The Catholic Herald

Poulenc’s glorious surrealism

that the composer francis poulenc was devoutly catholic is signalled by his output of choral works so fervent they force you to your knees: ...

A lesson from history: recusant architecture and the Latin Mass

the priest hole in england was the secret place built into a home, behind a staircase or fire place, where catholic priests who were invited...