Tag: Opinion
Philippa Martyr: Catholic women want a relationship with Jesus!
When we look at the data on women who are literally in the church—those who go to Mass every Sunday—we can see that they’re there to feel closer to God and have a closer relationship with Jesus in the sacraments
Q & A with Fr Flader: Birthplace of the Our Father
You mentioned that there was a third church built by St Helena in Jerusalem, on the Mount of Olives. Which church is it?
Monica Doumit: Has gender ideology’s turning point been reached at last?
The UK’s National Health Service closure of the Tavistock Clinic and the exclusion of puberty blockers in future clinics is a hopeful sign for...
Dr Austen Ivereigh: When criticism crosses the line of communion
A critical column in CW by George Weigel described the anniversary of the Francis pontificate as 'sombre.' Pope Francis' biographer Austen Ivereigh responds
Dr Philippa Martyr: The lure of celebrity faith
We need to tread carefully when it comes to the Catholic version of stardom - very carefully, indeed
French Catholic paper La Croix has just...
Dr Philippa Martyr – Mass: it’s about God, not emotions
Pope Francis wrote an exhortation on the liturgy, Desidero Desideravi, earlier this year. I’d like to unpack just one element of it - the...
The art of listening well
Listening is like dialogue, but you have to know how. And don’t try doing it with an empty mind
The National Catholic Education Commission’s 2022...
Monica Doumit: Blackmail: activists’ preferred tool
The targetting of children and the suborning of parents are essential to success of radical gender ideologues and their totalitarian mentality
“School told my son...
Fr John Flader Q&A: Blessed Alexandrina da Costa
“Dear Father, A friend recently told me about a Portuguese mystic, Blessed Alexandrina da Costa, who supposedly survived only on the Eucharist for some...
Lessons of an Anglican split
The creation of a new Anglican diocese in Australia offers Catholics a glimpse of a future we do not want
Last week a gathering of...
George Weigel: Wars – and choices
One of the more irritating tropes of this age in which sloganeering has replaced argumentation is the alleged distinction between “wars of choice” and...
Monica Doumit: When Catholic schools miss the mark
What are families to do when schools embrace fashionable ideologies that paint them and their children as intolerant bigots - and undermine parents?
Is your...
