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Now we know where we are with Mr Clegg. Marriage, he thinks, is just one among many versions of ‘the family institution’
By on Monday, 19 December 2011
It’s all so outdated, now the research shows how much more stable marriage is than cohabitation
A courageous writer who questioned everything – except his atheism
By on Monday, 19 December 2011
Christopher Hitchens was a magnanimous man who had many Christian friends
Evelyn Waugh did not love the splendour of a high Mass but rather a priest’s humble absorption in a low Mass
By on Friday, 16 December 2011
I like to think he would have approved of Mass in the Ordinary Form, too, now that we have an accurate translation
Bishop Davies knows that we can talk to young people about their immortal souls. Bishop Conry says it can’t be done. Which one should we trust?
By on Friday, 16 December 2011
There’s a gulf of understanding here: and a choice to be made
Liturgy is a language, and so it must have rules
By on Friday, 16 December 2011
Gaudete Sunday has returned to the mainstream of Catholicism
What Mary Portas can teach us about evangelisation
By on Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Like high streets, the Church will have to change to revitalise
The new weekly missal proves yet again what we have known for years: that the CTS is one of the great treasures of the English Church
By on Wednesday, 14 December 2011
The new liturgical dispensation has shown it yet again rising to the challenge
Many Catholics in Britain do not grasp how important and rewarding regular Confession can be
By on Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Why has the practice dropped off so dramatically here, but not in Italy, say, or Kenya?
Even choosing a Holy Land wine is political
A proposed separation wall near Bethlehem may jeopardise a famous altar wine produced at the Cremisan Monastery