I can’t even fathom how a Catholic Bishop could see a crowded parish celebrating the TLM and then say “this needs to stop and be shut down immediately” A totally disordered mind.

Watching this prayer service from the Vatican, in the shadow of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, it is hard to ignore that the split between these communions began with a British monarch who insisted he had a right to divorce and remarry. And here centuries later sits a divorced

It’s weird to shut down thriving TLM parishes for no reason when so many dying Novus Ordo parishes are closing/merging Why don’t we focus on filling the pews?

Your generation (also mine) have had their experience of power. The result: 125 global Catholics going online to watch synodical bores exchanging jargon while tumbleweed blows through parish churches.

Reports that Pope Leo will grant a Latin Mass extension to any bishop of England and Wales who asks for one. Nuncio has informed the bishops – several of whom have already secured permission for Tridentine Masses in their dioceses. So it seems that any incoming Archbishop of

Whitby Abbey — a flourishing Benedictine centre of piety, worship, and learning. Dissolved this week in 1539 on the orders of Henry VIII. Within years this great English monument of Christianity was broken, despoiled, and ruined.

🤩Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, received an exceptionally high literary education personally overseen by her father, which enabled her to learn Latin and Greek with excellent teachers. She spoke, read, and wrote in Latin (both prose and verse), in addition to

He is said to have stood at his window in the Vatican, watching the lights of Nazi columns flicker across the Tiber — a gaunt, spectral figure in white, offering no prayer, uttering no word. As Rome’s Jews were herded into trucks below, this story goes, Pope Pius XII turned away

Today, Catholics remember three heroic women who died for their faith: Margaret Ward, a domestic servant from London, Margaret Clitherow, a butcher's wife from York, and Anne Line, an Essex girl who ran a Jesuit safe house in London. All condemned for harbouring priests.

Can we please offer a prayer for those of us (many) who have unbaptized grandchildren, that their parents may be moved by the Holy Spirit to give this blessed sacrament upon their precious children?

Henry VIII didn't need to kill most of England's bishops. They just... agreed with him. One by one, the men who were supposed to be immovable moved. All except Bishop John Fisher. He knew exactly what capitulation cost. He'd watched it happen in real time. He refused anyway.

This morning His Holiness Pope Leo XIV received in audience Professors Stephen Bullivant and Stephen Cranney. In 2023, Cranney, a data scientist with a PhD in demography and sociology, and Bullivant, Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion, conducted a survey of

What is the moral difference between this and killing the baby 19 days earlier? This is an absolutely horrific and tragic case but so is a full term baby being killed as it is due to be born. Mother charged with murder of 18-day-old baby bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The government called it treason to hide a priest. Yet for 20 years, St. Nicholas Owen carved secret rooms into manor walls, alone, at night, by hand, so priests could say Mass. He was tortured to death in the Tower of London, but never gave a single name. The Church in

Blessed Edward Oldcorne was an English Jesuit priest and martyr who lived during a time of intense religious persecution in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Born in 1561 in York to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother, he initially trained as a doctor but felt called to the

Saint Henry Walpole was an English Jesuit priest and martyr who gave his life for the Catholic faith during the religious persecutions in Elizabethan England. Born in 1558 at Docking in Norfolk to a gentry family, he received a solid education at Norwich School, Peterhouse at

Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia.  Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia. Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.  Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia.  Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia. Oremus. Deus, qui per resurrectionem Filii tui, Domini

Both Oxford & Cambridge University were founded and built by Catholics. Everyone who studied and taught there prior to the reformation were strictly Catholic. Students were ordained into minor holy orders and studied arts, civil and canon law, philosophy, medicine and much

Until 1829, Roman Catholics in Britain could not vote, hold public office, or sit in Parliament The law changing this passed on 13 April In the meantime, families sent sons to Douai, where priests were trained in secret and smuggled back into England A 160 of them were