Words of a Cardinal
Cardinal Robert Sarah has called for a return to Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum, arguing that the Church should recover the more generous settlement that governed the traditional Latin Mass before Traditionis Custodes. Michael Haynes reports on the cardinal’s intervention and its significance for the future of the Church’s liturgical debate.
Nearly a thousand years after the Great Schism, can East and West move any closer to full communion? David P. Deavel considers Dmitri Solzhenitsyn’s book exploring the theological, historical and practical obstacles that still divide Catholics and Orthodox – and the reasons for cautious hope.
Everyone is harping on about Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Catholic upbringing, but what might a distinctly Catholic approach to government look like in practice? Clement Harrold proposes five policies through which the PM could put the social and moral principles of the Church into action.
Pope Leo XIV returns to a full public schedule this week as debate over assisted suicide gathers pace in Britain and Catholic institutions in New York challenge a new assisted-dying law.
‘The Week Ahead’ also looks at further developments at Medjugorje and Papa Stronsay, alongside the release of the official anthem for World Youth Day 2027.
In the wake of the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, David Hahn remembers Fr Paul Mankowski SJ, the brilliant Jesuit scholar whose fidelity to the Church and willingness to suffer in silence made him one of the Society’s most remarkable sons.
Nearly a thousand years after the Great Schism, can East and West move any closer to full communion? David P. Deavel considers Dmitri Solzhenitsyn’s book exploring the theological, historical and practical obstacles that still divide Catholics and Orthodox – and the reasons for cautious hope.
Everyone is harping on about Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Catholic upbringing, but what might a distinctly Catholic approach to government look like in practice? Clement Harrold proposes five policies through which the PM could put the social and moral principles of the Church into action.
Pope Leo XIV returns to a full public schedule this week as debate over assisted suicide gathers pace in Britain and Catholic institutions in New York challenge a new assisted-dying law.
‘The Week Ahead’ also looks at further developments at Medjugorje and Papa Stronsay, alongside the release of the official anthem for World Youth Day 2027.
In the wake of the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, David Hahn remembers Fr Paul Mankowski SJ, the brilliant Jesuit scholar whose fidelity to the Church and willingness to suffer in silence made him one of the Society’s most remarkable sons.

