Read (or, for now, simply dip into) two key texts for our times: firstly, the landmark encyclical of Pope Saint Pius X Pascendi (on the doctrine of the Modernists) and Archbishop Lefebvre's Open Letter to Confused Catholics and then share your thoughts. And consider this: the Pontifical High Mass in the Parish of the Immaculate...
I walked into my living room this morning, just as the journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was saying: "The problem is, Catholicism is making women have babies." I immediately rang Sky to lodge a complaint about this blatant bias, and then emailed viewer@sky.uk as follows: Dear Sir/Madam, I was appalled to hear the journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the...
In conversation recently about Islam, I mentioned that once, during a public rosary, I noticed that when a veiled Muslim woman passed by she looked straight ahead, studiously ignoring our group. The chat then turned on the fact that while Muslims are not afraid to show their religion by their dress, Catholics tend to keep any public...
The author of a book which we reviewed in a recent edition, and which we offered to readers who emailed for the pdf copy, has contacted me with the following information: Re: Creation, Evolution & Catholicism - A Discussion for Those Who Believe by Thomas McFadden From Thomas McFadden... [Attaching] PDF of the most recent print version. It would be...
This week's Tablet (terrible rag) is running an article entitled: Women in the Church: how far can we go? by Fr Peter Day. He begins (understandably) by quoting the eminently quotable Pope Francis: “We must therefore investigate further the role of women in the Church. We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of...
