Columnist: Joseph Shaw
Non-Catholics Come to the Rescue of the TLM?
All traditional Catholics know the story: that Agatha Christie and various others signed a petition to Pope Paul VI in 1971 asking him not to prohibit the celebration of the ...
Who Is to Blame When Catholics Leave the Church?
It seems some people want to shoot the messenger instead of addressing the underlying problems. Every now and then we read on social media about a Catholic lapsing from the ...
Sorry, Cardinal Cupich, You Can’t Require Private Baptisms to Have Episcopal Approval
Church law informs parents that they have an obligation—not just an option—to have their children baptised in the ‘first few weeks.’ Much has been written about the lack of Holy ...
Why Catholic Bishops are TERRIFIED of Investigations
The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report into clerical sex abuse in the Catholic Church and the Australian Royal Commission on child sex-abuse have an English equivalent in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which is ...