De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

Andy Burnham says he lost his Catholic faith because of the Church’s teaching on sexuality. But what if the real issue is not sexuality at all, but a civilisation that no longer understands the human person? My latest article explores the collapse of Christian anthropology in modern Britain: the confusion of love with desire, freedom with autonomy and affirmation with truth. It examines why Catholic teaching on marriage, sexuality and the family cannot simply be dismissed as an outdated “obsession”, but instead rests upon a coherent vision of human nature, reason and moral order stretching from classical philosophy through Christianity itself. At a time when pornography saturates culture, families fragment, birth rates collapse and even the meaning of man and woman is contested, perhaps the Church’s warnings appear less irrational than prophetic. Read the full article here .

  The SSPX crisis cannot be understood through caricature. Many Catholics instinctively recognise the reality of the collapse in catechesis, liturgy and ecclesial confidence which the Society of Saint Pius X has spent decades warning about. That is precisely why this present moment is so dangerous. In my latest article I argue that the deepest problem posed by the SSPX is not that everything they say is false. It is that much of what they say contains enough truth to persuade serious Catholics. But has permanent resistance now begun evolving into something more troubling? Is a movement originally formed to preserve Catholic Tradition gradually drifting toward a parallel ecclesial mentality in which the visible Church herself is increasingly viewed with suspicion? I explore: • the growing crisis of trust in ecclesial authority • the “state of necessity” argument • the dangerous rhetoric now emerging around the consecrations • Donatist parallels and remnant ecclesiology • why the exi...

"The modern world does not need a Church that echoes its confusion back to itself in softer language. It needs a Church confident enough to tell humanity the truth about the human person, about sin, about grace, about sexuality, about marriage, about salvation and about God. And to do that, the Church needs shepherds who believe those truths completely, without embarrassment, without calculation and without ambition." Watch my video about the report on "Hot Button Issues", which the Vatican downgraded to "Emerging Issues":