The Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage has lost St Peter’s, but gained the high altar of St Mary Major. Defeat, compromise, or something else entirely?...
There are episcopal appointments which are surprising, appointments which are disappointing and there are appointments which seem to demand an explanation. The decision of Pope Leo XIV to appoint Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera OSA as Coadjutor Archbishop of Cuzco belongs…...
The Pope says Vatican II’s reforms were needed to encourage greater participation. Sixty years of collapsing Mass attendance make that claim increasingly difficult to leave unexamined....
How can Catholic biblical scholarship remain Catholic when belief in the central proclamation of Scripture is apparently optional?...
There is no doubt that there is something profoundly attractive about the language of ecumenism, it certainly speaks to much of the sentiment of the modern age. Also, Christians ought to desire unity, the spectacle of those who confess Jesus…...
I was flying home from the US on Saturday and watched Florence Foster Jenkins, the true story of a woman with almost no singing ability but a host of loyal friends willing to sustain her belief that she possessed it. Audiences…...
Bishop Rob Mutsaerts asks Pope Leo to judge the Synod by its fruits. Has synodality become the very programme Sr Nathalie Becquart says it is not?...
As I keep repeating I think the future of the Prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship will be highly informative for the future of the Leonine Papacy. For Catholics attached to the traditional liturgy, the prospect of Cardinal Arthur…...
I do wonder if the echo chamber of the internet sometimes makes problems appear larger than they really are and there does seem to be a disproportionate number of sedevacantists/ SSPXers online arguing about the perceived depravity of the Church…...
Liechtenstein, abortion and the moral purpose of monarchy
