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I'm late posting this on here but my latest in the Catholic Herald is a review of Mass Exodus  by Stephen Bullivant. It begins: Was Va...

I'm going to be writing more about Prof Bullivant's new book, Mass Exodus,  which examines the catastrophic decline of Catholic affi...

I was reminded of this post from July 2014 by a story in The Tablet about retired Major-General Tim Cross, an Anglican, who was in despair a...

Mass in the private chapel of the historic Catholic house, Milton Manor. I've been writing about Callum Brown's thesis that disc...

St Anne, Our Lady, and the Infant Jesus: from the Walker Art Gallery In the  first post  of this series I set out the sociologist Callum...

A Traditional Sung Mass in Our Lady of the Assumption, Warwick Street, celebrated by Prior Cassian Folsom of Norcia. This weekend the Ca...

The donors of a fabulous Medieval triptych in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, which the SCT Summer School visited, attend Mass, as ...

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, alone and paleley loitering? ( La Belle Dame ) This is a little interjection into my series on Cal...

Clergy and servers at the Ecce, Agnus Dei  in High Mass at the SCT Summer School. In the last post in this series I set out the thesis ...

Young ladies at the Summer School attending High Mass A good deal has been written on the feminisation of the Church, and of all Christi...

A window into what is going on in the Church. Stephen Bullivant of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society has produced a study...

St Ambrose excommunicates the Emperor Theodosius Prof Linda Woodhead is the foremost sociologist of religion in the UK, and her researc...

A liturgy displaying seriousness: High Mass at Holy Trinity, Hethe, in Oxfordshire. I blogged the other day about the 'man crisis...

A liturgy with gravitas. Bishop Schneider in West Grinstead. Leon Podles, who inspired a series of posts in this blog about the loss of...

Walking pilgrims in Canada: Traditional pilgrimage to Our Lady of the Cape I don't want to leave the subject of the lapsation of me...

This is a sort of appendix to my posts about masculinity and the Church, which was inspired by Leon Podles' book The Church Impotent .  ...

The pliers for the nails, and the Sacred Wounds. A guide to this series. 1: Leon Podles' argument about masculinity. 2: How Podle...

The Seamless Garment; the dice used to gamble for it. A guide to this series. 1:  Leon Podles' argument about masculinity. 2:  How...

The mocking of Christ; Veronica's handkerchief. A guide to this series. 1:  Leon Podles' argument about masculinity. 2:  How P...

Pilate washes his hands; the pillar of the flagellation. A guide to this series. 1:  Leon Podles' argument about masculinity. 2:  ...