How the Church of England patronises African Christians
In this episode of Holy Smoke, I'm joined by The Spectator's features editor William Moore, who...
How the Church of England patronises African Christians
In this episode of Holy Smoke, I'm joined by The Spectator's features editor William Moore, who...
How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik?
At a press conference in Rome last week, an ex-nun claiming to have suffered ritual sex abuse at...
How liberal bishops are squeezing the life out of the Church of England
Can the Church of England escape from the deadly grip of bishops and bureaucrats who spend their...
Does Trump have evangelical Christians to thank for his second coming?
Donald Trump now seems certain to be the Republican presidential candidate in this year's US...
Just before Christmas, the Vatican's new doctrinal chief Cardinal Victor ‘Tucho’ Fernandez...
Raymond Arroyo on the joys of a Sinatra-style Christmas
In this festive episode of Holy Smoke, we're taken back to the Christmasses of the 1950s and 60s...
The strange appeal of Integralism
You might imagine that a political project to place modern nation states under the supreme...
How light filled the first Roman Churches: a conversation with Dr Elizabeth Lev
When I was in Rome last month, I watched the 'synod on synodality' fizzle out while the Marko...
The Pope, gay blessings and the Rupnik scandal
Pope Francis's much-hyped 'synod on synodality' began in Rome this week and to say that it has...
Genghis Khan and the Pope's summer of madness
Earlier this week, the Rome correspondent of the Times found himself mugging up on the history of...
The future of churchgoing in the West: why Protestants should worry and Catholics should panic
King Charles III is the first British monarch to inherit a post-Christian kingdom. Less than half...
Is 2023 Pope Francis's 'Year Zero'?
Conservative Catholic critics of Pope Francis are referring to 2023 as his 'Year Zero' – a time...
Escaping the atheist hell of North Korea
For 75 years, the most anti-Christian regime in modern history has thrown its citizens into...
Inside the world's most vicious liturgy wars
In the ancient Syro-Malabar Church of south India, clergy who try to change the liturgy do so at...
Succession: five nightmares for the next pope
A charming octogenarian who plays ruthless games with the people who think they're going to...
The Vatican and the Mafia – why Italy can't seem to shake off organised crime
The Sicilian Mafia is one of the most murderously amoral organisations on the planet – yet...
How Protestant is the Coronation?
The Coronation in Westminster Abbey is the only occasion at which our monarch declares himself or...
Why didn't Beethoven go to Mass?
Ludwig van Beethoven had a profound faith in God. He was born and raised a Catholic and on his...
The battle over female Catholic priests has just begun
This week we heard the unfamiliar sound of one of the Catholic Church's most influential...
Is Abu Dhabi's multi-faith 'Abrahamic Family House' a beacon of hope or a creepy PR exercise?
The Abrahamic Family House is the name for three giant concrete cubes – a church, a mosque and a...
The Doctrine of Regeneration
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Sermon: Enduring Faith, part 3
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Enduring Faith, part 4
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Enduring Faith, part 5
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Enduring Faith, part 6
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Enduring Faith, part 7
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Enduring Faith, part 8
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Mushrooms with Jonathan Fredette
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