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How the Church of England patronises African Christians The Spectator
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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...

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How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik? The Spectator
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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...

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How liberal bishops are squeezing the life out of the Church of England The Spectator
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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...

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Does Trump have evangelical Christians to thank for his second coming? The Spectator
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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...

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Gay blessings and theological porn: why leading cardinals are distancing themselves from Pope Francis The Spectator
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Gay blessings and theological porn: why leading cardinals are distancing themselves from Pope Francis

Just before Christmas, the Vatican's new doctrinal chief Cardinal Victor ‘Tucho’ Fernandez...

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Raymond Arroyo on the joys of a Sinatra-style Christmas The Spectator
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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...

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The strange appeal of Integralism The Spectator
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The strange appeal of Integralism

You might imagine that a political project to place modern nation states under the supreme...

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How light filled the first Roman Churches: a conversation with Dr Elizabeth Lev The Spectator
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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...

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The Pope, gay blessings and the Rupnik scandal The Spectator
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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...

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Genghis Khan and the Pope's summer of madness The Spectator
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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...

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The future of churchgoing in the West: why Protestants should worry and Catholics should panic The Spectator
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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...

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Is 2023 Pope Francis's 'Year Zero'? The Spectator
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Is 2023 Pope Francis's 'Year Zero'?

Conservative Catholic critics of Pope Francis are referring to 2023 as his 'Year Zero' – a time...

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Escaping the atheist hell of North Korea The Spectator
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Escaping the atheist hell of North Korea

For 75 years, the most anti-Christian regime in modern history has thrown its citizens into...

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Inside the world's most vicious liturgy wars The Spectator
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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...

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Succession: five nightmares for the next pope The Spectator
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Succession: five nightmares for the next pope

A charming octogenarian who plays ruthless games with the people who think they're going to...

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The Vatican and the Mafia – why Italy can't seem to shake off organised crime The Spectator
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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...

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How Protestant is the Coronation? The Spectator
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How Protestant is the Coronation?

The Coronation in Westminster Abbey is the only occasion at which our monarch declares himself or...

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Why didn't Beethoven go to Mass? The Spectator
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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...

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The battle over female Catholic priests has just begun The Spectator
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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...

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Is Abu Dhabi's multi-faith 'Abrahamic Family House' a beacon of hope or a creepy PR exercise? The Spectator
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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...

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