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Avarice and apathy: Post Office scandal reveals a loveless culture in need of Catholic virtue

January 18, 2024

The New Year in the UK began with a scandal that has been described as the “worst’ or “most widespread” miscarriage of justice in British history dominating the headlines and debates in Parliament. The Post Office, the United Kingdom’s (semi-privatised) premier governmental department responsible for initiating the distribution of mail and deliveries, knowingly allowed its

The Surrender upon Sex: a critique of the Church of England

February 08, 2023

As the Church of England considers reassessing gendered language in reference to God, GK Chesterton's timeless commentary hits the mark

On the Sixth Day of Christmas: Yuletide with PG Wodehouse

December 30, 2022

As the Christmas Octave continues, Simon May takes an affectionate ecumenical look at Plum Wodehouse’s treatment of the numerous Anglican clergymen with which Bertie Wooster’s world seemed to be filled. In light of the recent Census it gives pause for thought, as the Church of England’s retreat from its parishes continues. A charming 1930 short

Own goal: the Church of England and the World Cup Final

November 26, 2022

With the world’s eyes on Qatar, there’s a huge rumpus brewing in the clergy circles I move in – both face-to-face and on social media – about a suggestion by the Church of England that the World Cup Final on 18 December somehow trumps the last Sunday in Advent and that therefore traditional carol services

Will the Catholic Church inevitably turn from the West?

July 28, 2022

If demography and culture are destiny, then the Vatican – and wider Christian community – have a serious problem, in the Western world at least. The German Synodal Path may be an attempt at liberal pushback against what many German Catholics see as an alienating conservativism by the Vatican, but it faces an uphill struggle

Rome is where the heart is

December 01, 2021

The Church of England has gone astray and, Jonathan Petre says, this is proved by the latest Anglican bishop to have turned to Catholicism

Kneel before God, not the NHS

August 20, 2021

Former Anglican priest Gavin Ashenden is disappointed by the promotion of secular worship by the Church of England

Last of the Antiquarian Country Parsons

May 01, 2021

With the centenary of Henry Thorold’s birth in June, Michael Hodges celebrates the  life of one of Britain’s most eccentric but brilliant ecclesiastical historians