Tag: Dr Philippa Martyr
Philippa Martyr: Sex refers to Christ and His Church
This is a remarkable little book, and I have to admit that this is the first full length book by Christopher West I’ve ever...
Philippa Martyr: Better men make better priests
This week it’s clerical celibacy, thanks to my Gentlemen Correspondents. A recurring theme in their arguments is that celibacy is only a discipline, and...
Philippa Martyr: Cleaning the Church starts with you
Clerical sin doesn’t get the rest of us off the hook.
Philippa Martyr: When children walk away from the Faith
When you choose to keep your Catholic faith and pray for your children, everyone wins.
Philippa Martyr: Barking up the wrong pulpit
Francis Sullivan’s passion is undoubted. His grasp of the real issues facing the Church isn’t.
Francis Sullivan recently expressed concerns in the US National Catholic...
Dr Philippa Martyr: Will someone please explain what’s going down in...
Just when you think this year couldn’t get any stranger, the German Church takes us to a whole new level of you-can’t-make-this-up.
Just this week,...
Precisely which Church? A response to the Plenary Discernment papers
Going down this path would mean the Plenary Council risking creating an additional enormous layer of Church bureaucracy
