Culture & Society

There are moments in the life of the Church when a seemingly routine line in the Vatican Bollettino reveals more than a thousand speeches. A simple administrative notice can become an ecclesial thunderclap. So it may prove with the announcement…...

The publication of the Synod’s Study Group No. 9 report has already exposed deep anxieties within the life of the Church. In recent days, those anxieties have only intensified. What first appeared to many observers as a vague and troubling…...

For many Catholics, Dominican Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco initially appears as an attractive and even compelling figure. Here is a man who has not retreated into ideological tribalism or civilisational bitterness. He has chosen instead to live peacefully as a Christian…...

We are now beginning to see reactions from high profile bishops and cardinals to Synod Study Group No. 9’s controversial and deeply worrying report. Yet perhaps the most revealing aspect of the reaction may not be the criticism itself, but…...

The latest declaration issued by the Society of Saint Pius X in anticipation of its forthcoming episcopal consecrations is one of the most revealing documents to emerge from the traditionalist world in many years. It is also one of the…...

In Christian art the Ascension of Jesus has often been depicted with the Apostles and Our Lady looking into the sky while Our Lord’s feet are disappearing into the clouds. You will see such a painting in this weeks newsletter.…...

What should Catholics make of Medjugorje?In this episode of Catholic Unscripted, Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert are joined by Fr Leon Pereira OP, Dominican priest and longtime English-speaking chaplain in Medjugorje.Following recent discussions surrounding Marian apparitions and concerns raised about…...