De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

Why would a young man be attracted to the priesthood today? It's actually incredibly simple - so why are we finding it so difficult to discern the direction the Holy Spirit is guiding us in? A young man entering seminary later this year tells us about his calling   

Katherine & I were recently invited to attend a retreat on a farm in Maryland PA, USA with our families. While we were out there, a load of us went to see Young Washington at the cinema (aka "Movie Theatre"). It was a rip-roaring adventure with a very clear hero at the centre. We flew in and out of Washington D.C. and took the opportunity to do some sight seeing. We were privileged to have a tour of the Capitol Building with special access to the Speaker's Office, balcony and chapel. The architecture and history is openly Masonic in a way that Katherine and I were quite shocked by. However, it does make some sense when you consider that America’s founding generations were the great grandchildren of Protestantism’s founding generations. So many of the colonies were peopled with refugees of religious wars. They weren’t indifferent, but you could not build a nation if they had to first settle the theological can of worms opened with schism after schism, and sect after se...

  Bishop Mutsaerts asks perhaps the most important & most awkward question about the Synod on Synodality: where are the fruits? Not more committees, consultations or documents, but conversions, vocations, stronger Catholic families, fuller churches, better catechesis, greater reverence for the Eucharist and a clearer proclamation of Jesus Christ. This is surely the test by which every programme of ecclesial renewal must ultimately be judged. Synodality can be a means by which the Church listens & discerns, but once the process itself becomes the object of endless discussion, there is a danger that the Church becomes preoccupied with the mechanics of travelling together while losing sight of the destination. The criticism from the beginning was that this was naval gazing; the Church looking inward instead of outward. Mutsaerts’ Emmaus analogy is particularly powerful: Christ walks with the disciples and listens to them, but He does not merely affirm what they already think. ...

 For decades, the story of the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass has been told largely through the lens of parish life. But what happened inside the U.S. military is a little-known chapter that deserves far more attention. In this fascinating interview, retired Lieutenant Colonel David Sonnier discusses his remarkable book Rights and Wrongs and recounts the extraordinary story of how the Traditional Latin Mass was effectively suppressed within the armed forces, the resistance that followed, and the key figures who fought to preserve the Church's liturgical heritage. We also talk about Trumps foreign war, just war theory and David's special forces experiences in Columbia. It's a compelling conversation about history, authority, conscience, and the enduring importance of the sacred liturgy. 🎥 Watch now and let us know your thoughts in the comments. Please like, share and subscribe to help more people discover Catholic Unscripted.

Bishop Thomas Paprocki has described Cardinal Robert McElroy's theology as heretical. Is that accusation justified? In a landmark address to the Outreach Conference with Fr James Martin, Cardinal McElroy presents a vision of mercy, doctrine and human sexuality that many believe represents a decisive departure from Catholic tradition. Rev. Dr Stephen Morgan subjects McElroy's arguments to careful theological scrutiny, drawing on Newman, Benedict XVI and Veritatis Splendor to expose the fault lines in his reasoning and to ask whether what is being proposed is genuine development or something far more radical? Read Morgan's outstanding piece in full at Catholic Unscripted

The quiet dissolution of the Marian Franciscans marks the end of one of the most intriguing and symbolically important traditional Catholic apostolates to emerge in Britain during the pontificate of Pope Francis. The official statements released by the community itself, alongside subsequent statements from the Dioceses of Dunkeld and Portsmouth, are restrained, sorrowful and carefully ecclesial in tone. There are no accusations, no denunciations, no appeals to factional outrage. Instead there is gratitude, obedience, prayer and an unmistakable sense of grief. Yet underneath that restraint lies a profound story about the state of the Church in post Francis Catholicism and the increasingly fractured ecclesial culture which now exists within diocesan life itself. Read my full report here .