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Continue reading →: The Rough Wooing of EnglandWe care about Britain because we see it as a font, and so it is — although it is really England that is the font. America is rooted in England… and so England becomes surpassingly important for us. We do not understand ourselves without understanding it. (Joshua Trevino) The secular liberal mind…
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Continue reading →: The not-so quiet revival?A talk given on the increase of young people, and especially of young men, returning to the Church.
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Continue reading →: Catholic Schools and Culture WarsCatholic schools were not founded to serve public opinion or to bend to the dominant cultural winds.
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Continue reading →: Lazarus at the GatesThis article first appeared at Together for the Common Good in June 2025 ———— Here is a question we must ask ourselves, however uncomfortable: who today is our Lazarus at the gates? In a society of fraying of social bonds and huge social change, the parable of the Good Samaritan…
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Continue reading →: We have failed our childrenWe must reassess our approach to schools, sex and safeguarding
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Continue reading →: Can schools fix ‘broken’ Britain?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BGCNAeW7E&t=313s
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Continue reading →: Catholic Schools and Social JusticeThis article first appeared in the February 2024 issue of the Catholic Herald. ________ There is certainly an irony in the fact that one issue on which both secular humanists and a certain cohort of Catholics can find common cause is the desire to close Catholic schools. From one direction,…
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Continue reading →: Confessions of a Woke CatholicLiving with the contradictions of identity and belief
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Continue reading →: Blessed are the brokenBut then perhaps to be hopeful, you must first be humbled. Indeed, maybe you must even despair
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