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Is Pope Francis protecting a convicted sex abuser?
In this episode of Holy Smoke, I look at the ever-deepening mysteries surrounding Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, who was given a job assessing Vatican fin…
3 years, 11 months ago
Why the Pope's 'Synod on Synodality' has become a joke
The Catholic Church is half way through a two-year consultation exercise that will culminate in a 'Synod on Synodality' in the Vatican next year.
A sy…
4 years ago
The Queen's powerful Christian faith
In this week's Holy Smoke I offer some thoughts on the impressive and distinctive Christian faith of the Queen – impressive because it's so refreshin…
4 years, 1 month ago
Why is the Church of England so obsessed with racism?
My guest on Holy Smoke this week is, many people believe, a victim of the intolerant progressive ideology currently gripping the Church of England. H…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Catholic Church's muddle over Roe vs Wade
So Roe vs. Wade is as good as dead. Americans are about to lose their constitutional right to an abortion.
Five out of the nine Supreme Court justices…
4 years, 2 months ago
A plan to rescue Christian art
Few things are more depressing than the art, architecture and furnishings of the average modern church. The glorious aesthetic of light and colour of…
4 years, 2 months ago
Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali on his first Easter as a Catholic
My guest on this episode of Holy Smoke was an Anglican bishop for 37 years – one of the Church of England's foremost scholars and its leading witness…
4 years, 3 months ago
It’s time the West saved Nigeria’s persecuted Christians
Did you know that in the last year more Christians have been killed for their faith in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world combined? In 2021, at …
4 years, 3 months ago
'I don't think we've gained anything' – Cardinal Pell on the Vatican and China
Cardinal George Pell has given a wide-ranging interview to The Spectator's Holy Smoke podcast in which he criticises the Vatican's 2018 deal with Bei…
4 years, 4 months ago
In Ukraine and China, a power-obsessed Vatican is betraying heroic Catholics
Four million Christians in western Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which since the end of the 16th century has adhered to a By…
4 years, 4 months ago