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INTERVIEW: Bishop-elect of Clifton talks about marriage, parenting in a secular world, the pressures faced by priests and much more, including the Church’s greatest asset

April 09, 2024

Pope Francis appointed Rev. Canon Bosco MacDonald as the tenth Bishop of Clifton on 14 March 2024. It followed the Pope on the same day accepting the resignation of the Right Reverend Declan Lang as Bishop of the Diocese of Clifton, one of 22 dioceses in England and Wales. The Catholic Herald subsequently spoke to Clifton’s new bishop-elect on

Prominent clergy and scholars sign collective letter requesting Pope to retract Fiducia Supplicans

February 15, 2024

A collective letter entitled “Filial Appeal” has gained the signatures of around 90 prominent clergymen, intellectuals and authors around the world and has been submitted to the Vatican requesting the retraction of Fiducia Supplicans and its direction on the blessings of same-sex couples. The letter, originally published on 2 February 2024, addresses senior prelates around

Union of Catholic Mothers sticking up for married families at time of ‘great unrest’

February 07, 2024

The Union of Catholic Mothers was founded in 1913 to unite Catholic married women in the UK. It is a national organisation which promotes the full ideal of marriage, Christian values in family life and Catholic religious education of children. UCM members are made aware of current social, political and medical policies at the national

Who would choose to be a Catholic at a time like this?

December 18, 2023

The phoney war is over. Civil war has been launched within the Church by Pope Francis and his recent appointee Cardinal Victor Fernandez. Many of the recent theological and political tremors that have emanated under the leadership of the Pope have produced a degree of incoherence and uncertainty. But the ambiguity is now over. Secular

Vatican appears to endorse couples in ‘irregular situations’ receiving blessings that do not ‘validate their status’

December 18, 2023

A new declaration from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith appears to attempt to square the controversial issue of approving blessings for same-sex couples without undermining the Church’s traditional teaching on the sanctity of marriage. The Declaration Fiducia supplicans issued by the Dicastery on 18 December, approved by Pope Francis, means “it will be

Kate Forbes has made the catastrophic mistake of admitting to being a Christian

February 21, 2023

It is fantastic when a Christian politician with orthodox views on human sexuality runs for leadership of a political party as it means that the media start to get very interested in the concept of sin. Reporters positively fall over themselves to ask the latest candidate whether they think gay sex is a sin. Tim

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

Why the ‘US Respect for Marriage Act’ is a work of fiction

January 01, 2023

Disrespecting our institutions