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Gavin Ashenden
Will Pope Leo XIV heal, resist or appease?
Does the Holy Spirit choose the Pope? Pope Benedict’s surprising answer
The media's selective understanding of a complexed pope
Christ is crucified by every sinner - not just those who are Jewish
Love your mugger
Is Cardinal Sarah the man to save the Church as the next pope?
Why BBC's 'Thought for the Day' doesn't want to hear from Catholics
Trump’s tariffs are a beacon of Catholic social teaching
Justin Welby's surprising dress code and a failure of Christian critique
Laughter is the best medicine in this post-truth world
Sainted saunterers: prayer and praise on the pilgrim road to Chartres
Catholics and Protestants see the Eucharist and the Bible differently
Who would choose to be a Catholic at a time like this?
Why Trump gets the 'White Christian' vote
The Christian Faith is one of paradox: Why Christmas and Advent unite the mysteries of fasting and feasting
BREAKING: Archbishop of Canterbury resigns amid safeguarding 'cover-up' controversy
'It's over.' A leading American Anglican gives a searing assessment of the Welby years
Levitation and bilocation: a courageous history of supernatural belief
Beware the virtue signallers
Does cancel culture have the Church in its crosshairs?
Nashville massacre of Christians shows the sexual revolution is turning more violent
The meaningless vacuity of just being 'nice'
Hyper-sexualisation, 'trans'-formation and evangelisation: just your average summer of ideological sport
Why I’m now convinced Shakespeare was a Catholic
To believe, or not to believe, asks Gavin Ashenden
How are we to judge ... ? Francis's frank phraseology confuses the West
Galileo is not the atheists’ posterboy
Bad-tempered pontiffs, lynching committees, theology and science
Synodality: a revolution 'to change radically the Church’s self-understanding'
Islam's problem with Jews goes back millennia
Holiness is the antidote to evil in the Church
Will we allow cyborg ambition and abortion to defeat Christian protest?
Dante and the sanctification of love
We need to look afresh at the whole idea of falling in love, says Gavin Ashenden
Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality
Children are not safe in a society 'possessed by genitalia'
Miraculous? Donald Trump's bloody ear and the prayer that preceded it
Schism looms over the Anglican Communion - but it isn't going to happen
What has happened to British justice and will our Church speak out or continue its descent into two-tier Catholicism?
How devotion to the Mother of God helps us to better know God as 'Our Father'
The Anglican hierarchy should embrace the Saints, not sociologists
The Anglican Communion risks imploding if it continues to put sex before sanctity, says Gavin Ashenden
Big Brother has it in for everyone – but especially ‘extremist’ Catholics
Is there another Islamic agenda behind the national Muslim war memorial to the brave soldiers who died for us during two world wars?
The Children's Society should spare us the sanctimony and wash Welby's money clean
Corpus Christi, the perfect antidote to rebellious pride
How the State failed ‘WASPI women' and Secularism and Feminism failed all women
The Lord’s Anointed: The rituals that reveal England's Catholic past
The curious linguistic dynamics of the nascent synodal Church
How war in the Holy Land imperils our Judaeo-Christian civilisation
Why Kings are better than Presidents
It provides a symbolic, psychological and spiritual restraint on the raw ambitions of politicians
The ideological error of Welby's £100 million slavery fund
How every phrase in the explosive Nicene Creed is packed with the power to change lives
McElroy's appointment to Washington is a seriously misguided political move
The transcendental character of an ancient abbey
Church of England synod member 'rebuked' by Welby for publicly opposing same sex blessings
Is King Charles's soul a prisoner to the British monarchy and its link to Anglicanism?
Finally the experts agree that being Catholic is good for your health
St Thomas Becket's shrine has a fine and sacred story: Now they (literally) dance around his grave
Podcast 29: In defence of ex-Anglicans with Dr Michael Nazir-Ali
'Another day, another doctrine' - Podcast 26 on same-sex marriage in the Church of England
Synodality – an exercise in misreading St John Henry Newman and 'Lumen gentium'
What sort of government votes to let doctors kill with impunity?
The unexpected return of Christian ethics
Enlightenment pragmaticism versus sacred revolt
Exorcists today have an even harder job when the supernatural, rumour mill and Internet collide
A lesson from history: recusant architecture and the Latin Mass
The synodal Church will be guided by the spirit of the age
Guilt by association is everywhere now and is the antithesis of Christ's message
Same-sex blessings vote shows the CoE favours secular consensus over Christianity
The Catholic response to protest
On Our Lady, the Assumption and 'Trans'
Changing the outer circumstances of who we are is no guarantee of a change at a deeper level, where most of our pain is to found
Christian unity, Catholic incoherence and Pell’s remedy
Christianity, marriage and childbirth can halt the extinction of the West
‘Pride’ versus Catholic schools: It's a full-scale assault and is focused on our children
Why there is indeed a 'trans' element to Da Vinci's Last Supper – and how this Summer's scenes curiously perfectly contrasted it
God Save the (agnostic) King! But can the monarchy survive a non-religious future 'Defender of the Faith'?
How to re-enchant the West with Christian culture
A counter-insurgency against progressive thinking
Cardinal Sarah issues warning on religious freedom
Kneel before God, not the NHS
Former Anglican priest <I>Gavin Ashenden</I> is disappointed by the promotion of secular worship by the Church of England
'The assumption must be faced that Pope Francis is consciously breaking with the Church’s tradition'
Reflections on a pilgrimage to a Jordan Peterson rally: the good, the bad and the evil
Nothing to see here? Cardinal Ghirlanda denies attempts to change voting rights in next conclave
The beauty and power of music can bring us into the presence of the Divine
Piercing the darkness with light in profundity at Advent and Christmas
Confessions of an ex-LGBT activist
Archbishop Welby undermines his office by taking sides on immigration
How the internet is saving the Catholic Church from self-destruction
In science, as in every aspect of life, the ends don't justify the means
Chaos or Christianity
Faced with a stark choice, the world needs a confident Catholic Church
Rod Dreher's solution to our spiritual and theological crisis is most persuasive one out there
Are the dark gods back: Enraged crowds, psychosis and possession?
Secularism under Scrutiny: Why restless hearts find their questions answered in God
Islam in British democracy and the dangers to our Jewish neighbours
How 'victimhood' is destroying the Church
Gay marriage and surrogacy: Purchasing children and eradicating society
'This is not so much a clash of cultures as a clash of gods'
Cardinal Müller is right: bishops who voted for same-sex blessings must go
Jordan Peterson, politics, and Christian conversion
Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state
Review: GB News Easter Special
Dignitas Infinita: To play down free will and original sin is a very dangerous business
Did the King's speech bode well for his faithful subjects in 2024, a year that could prove momentous?
Is the Synodal Way a hostile take-over of the Church?
New laws to ban prayer outside abortion clinics are disproportionate and farcical
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