Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

This piece, which I reproduce unchanged, first appeared 22/12/2009 . I can't help feeling that it has a curious relevance to the situati...

Why don't people swap roles occasionally? Fr Lombardi could go riding around in airliners making remarks to journalists; then the Holy F...

Really devoted readers will recall some posts, last October, about a travelling Exhibition I had seen in Copenhagen, when I was again welcom...

My mind, of course, immediately turned to Ovid X, to the account of Pygmalion and his  ... er ... adventures. Here, also, one finds the emph...

I was a Sixth Former when homosexual genital activity was decriminalised; I remember (and was impressed by) the distinction made by the poli...

Having discharged his kalashnikov at the curial cardinals and their staffs just before Christmas, our beloved Holy Father has now loosed off...

Some sources have queried whether the term 'martyr' is appropriate for Catholics to use of the Twenty One murdered Copts. There is, ...

Unless the interview published yesterday and given in an English translation on Rorate today is totally mendacious, the fact that such a th...

The recent events, centred upon the visit of the two 'other' Ordinaries, constituted an absolutely marvellous few days.Two brief poi...

It is now a minute or two to six. I'll go and have a look at the News. Doubtless there will be footage from all the capitals of Europe s...

Would it be possible for there to be a votive Mass In Commemoratione Novorum Martyrum ? It would not specify who precisely fell into this ca...

 ... is a very fine writer with whom I nearly always agree. But it seems to me that he can be a trifle careless ... as, I am sure, I often a...