What on earth has happened to Cardinal Schönborn?
What has happened to Cardinal Schönborn – bulwark of orthodoxy against the alternative Magisterium and the loonies of “We are Church”, chief creator of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, disciple...
View ArticleThe Ordinariate will help reconnect the English Church to its medieval roots
In the early 1990s, when the former bishop of London and a group of other prominent Anglo-Catholics were in negotiation with a group of Catholic bishops – over the possibility of Anglicans being...
View ArticleYou cannot be true to Church teachings and hope to be ‘respectable’
That fine political journalist, Anthony Howard, died on December 19, aged 76. By coincidence, a month before his death a (convert) friend put into my hands a copy of his biography of the late Cardinal...
View ArticleCardinal Bertone may be right to block the head of Caritas: but the way he...
I have to admit that I don’t check up on the Tablet’s online version as often as maybe I should; at my age I have to watch my blood pressure. And I don’t take the print version. Maybe I ought to...
View ArticleThe Anglican woman vicar who gave up her ministry to become a Catholic
A friend has just off-loaded a lot of old copies of the Tablet on to me. I dislike its editorial line of “loyal dissent” (an oxymoron if ever there was one) over Church teaching on many issues to which...
View ArticleMy new Sunday Missal is the Christmas present I will cherish most
Courtesy of the Catholic Truth Society I have received my first Christmas present; it will also be the present I shall cherish the most and use most continuously. This is not to decry any gifts my dear...
View ArticleIt is surely premature to start talking about ‘conclave contenders’
I learnt from the Herald that on January 6 the Holy Father appointed 22 new cardinals. Not being an obsessive Vatican-watcher I confess I hadn’t heard of any of them, with the exception of the former...
View ArticleConfession must once again be seen as the normal practice of a Catholic life
In an article in the Tablet, John Cornwell, director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, asks what has happened to the Sacrament of Confession, or Reconciliation as...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 25/10/13
Bishops are called “to serve, not to dominate“, Pope Francis said as he presided at the first episcopal ordination of his pontificate yesterday (video). The Pope also received one of Europe’s youngest...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 03/10/14
Rome and the SSPX are determined to “continue doctrinal discussions in a broader, less formal framework“, Bishop Bernard Fellay has said. Pope Francis is “emerging as a favourite” for this year’s Nobel...
View ArticleHere we go again: another ill-informed attack on Bishop Egan and the Friars...
The Tablet is at it again. Fr Ray Blake has spotted the following onslaught on Bishop Egan, who, as he says, is not exactly one of the Tablet’s favourite prelates. The headline is “Friars accused of...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 30/10/15
The Holy Father has created a new foundation to promote Catholic education worldwide (chirograph). Catholicism is the most trusted religion in South Korea, according to a new survey. An apostolic...
View ArticleLiberal Catholicism’s unexpected crisis
Even as Pope Francis wins the applause of the world for giving Catholicism a friendlier face, critics have started to grumble. On social media and in opinion columns, they have drawn up a list of...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 30/06/17
ISIS is “not the underlying problem of Syria”, Cardinal Mario Zenari has said. Vatican Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia has intervened in the Charlie Gard debate. John Allen, Daniel Burke, Marie Collins,...
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