Tag: Philippa Martyr

The Church is either human and democratic or like the Blues Brothers – on a mission from God My last piece on women deacons caused...

You’re not likely to hear that in your average sacramental preparation class, and that’s a crying shame.

Can women be ordained as permanent deacons in the Catholic Church? And if they can, should this happen? I will save you all worrying, because...

Spiritual communions, perfect acts of contrition, and Mass on TV are not what the Lord intended for us. He intended real things: breath and bodies; oil and wine in our wounds; flesh and blood for us to eat; water and fire to purify

I was chatting to one of my increasingly rare friends the other day about the state of the Church, and she gave me a...

Two upcoming Church synods are causing a bit of concern. The Amazon Synod opened on Sunday 6 October, and will consider a range of...

When Catholics try to tell me that the sexual abuse crisis is largely manufactured by enemies of the Church, I agree with them - but we differ on who the real enemies are.