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 It examines why Catholic teaching on marriage, sexuality and the family cannot simply be dismissed as an outdated “obsession”, but instead rests upon a coherent vision of human nature, reason and moral order stretching from classical philosophy through Christianity itself.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 .

"Jeremy Corbyn No More War" by Garry Knight from London, England - Jeremy Corbin. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremy_Corbyn_No_More_War.jpg#/media/File:Jeremy_Corbyn_No_More_War.jpg So yesterday I was excited to watch what I saw as the inevitable outcome of the achingly drawn-out Labour Leadership process. The contest was populated by several drones, Blairites, Brownites, (whatever!) but one candidate stood out from the outset: Jeremy Corbyn. He stood out because he struck me as a real Socialist. Someone who actually believed in Socialist ideals. Labour has been populated by Liberal elites for some years now and seemed to have betrayed its working class roots very blatantly to me. Damian Thompson deliciously articulates the issue with extraordinary literary precision here , although the dish is served with a somewhat inevitable and rather generous side-salad of schadenfreude: British liberal-Left professionals are ob...

The Catholic Herald draws attention to Andy Burnham's cultural catholicism in this article . It seems, as long as the Church doesn't have any opinions on anything, it's fine by Burnham. The Catholic Herald reports him as making the following comments: “I find that quite difficult because if I think of the Church of my youth, and the priests that I knew, the feeling and overriding mood was quite forgiving really, quite humane, humorous, irreverent, [!!!] even the priests. [The whole point of the Church is as a vehicle for Christ's mercy; think of the parable of the Good Samaritan; the Church administers the Sacraments (pouring on oil and wine) until the master returns]. “That’s my memory of the Church that I grew up with. And it seemed at some point with the change of popes to click into a more judgmental mode and became much more obsessed with sexuality and issues related to sexual behaviour. And in that period, I drifted more and more away and Ratzinger ...