Tag: Catholicism

I have a work colleague who is a Christadelphian and, frankly, I had never heard of this religious community until now. What is their...

Beware the false 'traditional' vs 'non-traditional' divide People who call themselves "traditional Catholics" are on equal footing in my mind with those people who say...

Let's celebrate some of our great people and events There is no need to belabour the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other...

The first of three-part series on heresy Modernity has been conditioned to think of orthodoxy as a stiff and stodgy thing, closed to new ideas...

Controversial welcome was entirely appropriate Well, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was in a bit of a flurry last week, wasn’t it? For those...

A Church for the modern person Having read the Australian Catholic Mass Attendance Report 2016, I think we can safely say that the experiment has...

there is still the tendency for me to default into using phrases of common prayers from The Book of Common Prayer (1662), such as “the quick and the dead” instead of “the living and the dead”

A week ago, my friend and colleague Peter Holmes published an article ‘Missing Mass? Don’t complain…’ Its focus is not so much on those...

“Dear Father, I am disturbed by the fact that some Catholic politicians have voted for the legalisation of abortion in this country. For me,...

US bishop and popular author Bishop Robert Barron has spoken of a “huge pastoral failure” by the Church during a highly anticipated discussion with...