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March 04, 2024
Fiducia Supplicans Sir – It is worrying that the Holy Father appears to question the motives of anyone who has concerns about Fiducia Supplicans and same-sex relationships. That these have been raised by a large and varied group in the Church is surely at least testimony to the fact that the document is problematic. The traditional continuum
April 11, 2023
There’s a rugged patch of the high Latin American Andes which is an enigmatic treat, steeped in Catholic mystery, fables, prophecy and art. Yet the Conceptionist convent on the beautiful streets of Quito, Ecuador, remains an unfamiliar pilgrimage destination across much of the Anglosphere. It is central to the story of Mother Mariana, a woman
April 01, 2023
Shaun Blanchard reflects on the ‘Very Short Introduction’ to Vatican II. A few years ago, in those halcyon days before the pandemic, I sat down in an Oxfordshire pub with Stephen Bullivant to draft a prop-osal for a volume on Vatican II for OUP’s Very Short Introduction (VSI) series. Much of that day saw pitched
December 02, 2022
Gertrude Clarke goes to hear George Weigel’s new take on Vatican II
November 14, 2022
The Second Vatican Council should not be weaponised in the culture wars between Church conservatives and liberals. What would the fathers of the Council have made of the subsequent developments made in its name?
August 12, 2022
The next Pope must have the spiritual integrity to tackle the metaphysical assaults of secularism, writes Gavin Ashenden
June 28, 2022
Cardinal Arinze speaks to Simon Caldwell about the dangers of the Synodal Way
June 10, 2021
A lament from 1967 of all the laity lost in the changes of the mid-sixties, which provides a worrying precedent for the state of the Church today.
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