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Is the Catholic Church falling apart?
In the last episode of Holy Smoke, I discussed Pope Francis's brutal and petty new document which seeks to ban as many Latin Masses as possible. This…
4 years, 11 months ago
The plot against the Old Rite
Traditionalist Catholics are still reeling from the Pope's imposition of ferocious new rules limiting the celebration of the old Latin Mass. On Frida…
5 years ago
The tyranny of bad hymns
Christian music lovers of all denominations – Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, whatever – know only too well that they enter their local churches at th…
5 years ago
The Christian mental health crisis
Is the mental health of Christians beginning to collapse under the strain not just of Covid and its effect on worship but also the bottomless contemp…
5 years, 1 month ago
How Biden's cardinals are trying to shut down free discussion
America's Catholic bishops are furiously divided among themselves this week, after a liberal faction led by the Biden loyalists Cardinals Cupich of C…
5 years, 1 month ago
The last legacy of the Soviet Union
Today’s Holy Smoke podcast is about the increasingly brutal bullying and silencing of people – especially Christians – who hold the ‘wrong’ opinions …
5 years, 2 months ago
The magical power of charisma – and why the Churches are ignoring it
The subject of this week’s Holy Smoke is charisma, which you might think is one of the most hackneyed and devalued words in the language. But its pop…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Greek Orthodox ancestry of Prince Philip
What were Prince Philip's religious beliefs? The Duke of Edinburgh had Orthodox Christian ancestry, but how was he drawn to its traditions, was he in…
5 years, 3 months ago
What the police's Good Friday disruption tells us about post-Christian Britain
The invasion of the sanctuary of a Polish church in Balham on Good Friday by the Metropolitan police was not only a shocking event but also a siniste…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Passion chorale: the story of an extraordinary tune
As we all know, it’s safe for three people to sing hymns in church, but any more than three is absolutely deadly. Those are the rules as set down by …
5 years, 3 months ago