Even a frail and saintly cleric who walks with the aid of a stick is not safe to endorse democracy. No one is
By Damian Thompson
Pope Francis renewed his campaign against the Latin Mass this month, permitting his liturgy chief Archbishop Arthur Roche to issue all manner of threats to clergy celebrating the ancient liturgy. This “clarification” has been greeted with horror by bishops around the world, including many who aren’t keen on the old rite. This episode of Holy […]
By Damian Thompson
When feminist academics start writing such gobbledegook, it’s never long before the real world moves on
By Damian Thompson
The Goldbergs are a nightmare for pianists and only very few have managed to its sense of virtuosic fun without tripping up
By Damian Thompson
Say what you like about Pope Francis, but he’s incapable of giving a boring in-flight interview. Last Wednesday, coming back from Hungary and Slovakia, he was asked about the problem of pro-abortion Catholic politicians receiving Holy Communion. He immediately launched into a ferocious denunciation of abortion, describing it as homicide, saying there was no middle […]
By Damian Thompson
We have acquired the ability to plunge into a recreation of the past so detailed that it feels like time travel
By Damian Thompson
The Storm is Upon Us and Pastels and Pedophiles reviewed
By Damian Thompson
The President has forced the hand of the American Catholic hierarchy
By Damian Thompson
Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer
By Damian Thompson
America’s Catholic bishops are furiously divided among themselves this week, after a liberal faction led by the Biden loyalists Cardinals Cupich of Chicago and Wilton Gregory of Washington tried to stop them discussing the question of whether the radically pro-choice president of the United States should be allowed to receive Holy Communion. The US conference […]
By Damian Thompson
Today’s Holy Smoke podcast is about the increasingly brutal bullying and silencing of people — especially Christians — who hold the ‘wrong’ opinions on controversial topics. A culture of censorship is becoming ever more deeply embedded in public institutions not just in Britain but also throughout Europe. In London last month we witnessed the nasty […]
By Damian Thompson
How do you rein in the overactive bits of Manfred Honeck’s imagination without driving him away?
By Damian Thompson
Voters understandably doubt Biden’s Catholic convictions
By Damian Thompson
It turns out Francis is Catholic after all
By Damian Thompson
