Columnist: Gavin Ashenden
Dignitas Infinita: Do Humans Look Dignified to You?
There’s a new Vatican document which asserts that human beings, by their very nature, have something called “infinite dignity.” A conversation at the Vatican press conference when Dignitas Infinita was ...
WATCH: Gavin Ashenden – The Dark Gods are Back
What language fits the mob psychosis that carried violence, rage, anger, and threat against a small group of pro-life students at the University of Manchester? Should we use the language ...
WATCH: The Church’s Enemies Are Inside Her Gates, But Remain Faithful!
Catholics Unscripted - Gavin Ashenden, Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert - speak with Bishop Joseph Strickland about the current crisis in the Church. Bishop Strickland discusses the contradictions and confusion within ...
LISTEN: Politically-Incorrect Catholicism, with John Zmirak and Gavin Ashenden
Dr Gavin Ashenden is joined by John Zmirak, a senior editor of The Stream and author of the new Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism, to discuss the new novelties “gathering ...
Catholic-Anglican ‘Dialogue’: The Meaningless Vacuity of Just Being ‘Nice’
The week of prayer for Christian unity has changed its character over the years. It used to be the ecclesiastical version of birdmen leaping off a beach pier contest; summed ...
WATCH: Russell Brand, Pope Francis, Heaven and Hell
Please visit www.CatholicUnscripted.com and check out our membership options. Thank you. Today we discuss Russell Brand explaining why he wears a cross and Pope Francis remarks about Hell. In the ...
WATCH: Is the Pope a Communist?
In this episode, Katherine Gavin and Mark discuss the question of whether Pope Francis is a communist in the light of his recent meeting with DIALOP - a "dialogue project" ...
What Are We To Make Of The Exotic And Sensually Esoteric Theology Of Cardinal Fernandez?
The exotic contents of Mystical Passion: spirituality and sensuality written 25 years ago by now-Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández have been well covered in the Catholic press by now. Responses have ranged from a mixture ...
WATCH: Shock, Despair and Reassessment: Fiducia Supplican and the Threat to Catholic Integrity
Dr. Gavin Ashenden is a British Catholic layman, author and commentator, and Associate Editor of the Catholic Herald. Before his conversion to the Catholic faith, Dr. Ashenden was a priest ...
Fiducia Supplicans: An Exercise in Smoke and Mirrors, where Spin becomes Substance and Appearance Reality
St John Henry Newman once considered the possibility of the crisis that would emerge if a Church council or a pope introduced a doctrine that contradicted a previous council or ...
Who Would Choose to be a Catholic at a Time Like This?
The phoney war is over. Civil war has been launched within the Church by Pope Francis and his recent appointee Cardinal Victor Fernandez. Many of the recent theological and political ...
LISTEN: No One Dies a Martyr for Ambiguity – Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Bishop Athanasius Schneider is our guest for this 64th episode of Merely Catholic, the podcast series for the Catholic Herald. The Auxiliary Bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, talks about his new ...
WATCH: Prayer as the Antidote to the Crisis in the Church
Gavin Ashenden reflects on the role of prayer in addressing the current crisis in the Catholic Church ...
The Synodal Church Will be Guided by the Spirit of the Age
The camera never lies; except that it does. A still photograph taken out of context can be wholly misleading. A video less so, since it provides context. The October Synod ...
WATCH: The Secret Synod Succeeds in its Synodal Coup
Gavin Ashenden lives partly in Shropshire and partly in Normandy.He grew up in S.W. London, and then Kent, and was educated at the King’s School in Canterbury. After originally reading ...
‘The Assumption Must be Faced that Pope Francis is Consciously Breaking with the Church’s Tradition’
We can’t say we weren’t warned. On World Youth day in Rio de Janeiro in 2013, Pope Francis, excited by the crowds of young people, adopted something of the energetic ...
Holiness is the Antidote to Evil in the Church
There may be few greater hindrances to believing in God and loving His Church than the offence caused by clerical sexual abuse. The latest scandals, and the arguably equally offensive ...
The Vatican’s New Synod Document Radically Overturns Christian Teaching
“The ‘Working Document for the Continental Stage’ of the Synodal Way must be exposed as the Trojan horse of heresy that is.” “All I need is a sheet of paper ...
