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Don’t let Catholic ecumenism down

Dear Fr Aidan, Thank you for your reply to my last letter. But could I just mention one small point before tackling the subject here which, in line with the agenda being followed between the SSPX and...

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Nostra aetate: a break with tradition?

Dear Fr Aidan, Thank you for your reply to my letter on ecumenism in which you maintain that I went beyond “the limits of acceptable criticism” by asserting that the documents of Vatican II contain...

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Did Vatican II usher in our secular age?

For previous correspondence between Fr Aidan Nichols and Moyra Doorly, click here. Dear Fr Aidan, Perhaps I could begin this letter on religious liberty, the last in the series, by challenging the...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/04/11

Benedict XVI was “deeply moved” by the deaths of some 250 migrants whose boat capsized as they fled Libya, a Vatican spokesman has said. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has issued an...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/04/11

Benedict XVI urged Christians to overcome their doubts about Christ’s Resurrection in his Angelus address yesterday (video). Activists in Pakistan report that another Christian has been accused falsely...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/07/11

At the Angelus yesterday Benedict XVI said that Jesus says to both rich and poor: “Come unto me.” A new text in which Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, discusses her abortion has...

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The Ordinariate’s liturgy is beginning to emerge: it will show us what might...

The Ordinariate Portal has now published part three of a lecture by Fr Aidan Nichols on the historical, theological and liturgical origins and possibilities of and for the Personal Ordinariate of Our...

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Peering down a microscope can bring us closer to God

I have just been reading Fr Aidan Nichols’s book, Lost in Wonder: Essays on Liturgy and the Arts. It is an erudite reflection on the need for beauty in liturgy and church architecture, among other...

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The theologians’ letter has clarified what is really at stake in the Amoris...

In the three and a half months since its publication, the Pope’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia has been described as brilliant, erroneous, confusing, groundbreaking and unremarkable. It has opened up...

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Leading theologian: change canon law to correct papal errors

A prominent theologian has proposed reforming canon law to allow a pope’s doctrinal errors to be established. Fr Aidan Nichols, a prolific author who has lectured at Oxford and Cambridge as well as the...

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Fr Nichols is right about the doctrinal crisis. But there’s a better answer

Like many faithful Catholics, Fr Aidan Nichols is concerned about the festering doctrinal and pastoral crisis resulting from Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. This magisterial...

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Don’t let Catholic ecumenism down

Dear Fr Aidan, Thank you for your reply to my last letter. But could I just mention one small point before tackling the subject here which, in line with the agenda being followed between the SSPX and...

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Don’t let Catholic ecumenism down

Dear Fr Aidan, Thank you for your reply to my last letter. But could I just mention one small point before tackling the subject here which, in line with the agenda being followed between the SSPX and...

View Article


Nostra aetate: a break with tradition?

Dear Fr Aidan, Thank you for your reply to my letter on ecumenism in which you maintain that I went beyond “the limits of acceptable criticism” by asserting that the documents of Vatican II contain...

View Article

Did Vatican II usher in our secular age?

For previous correspondence between Fr Aidan Nichols and Moyra Doorly, click here. Dear Fr Aidan, Perhaps I could begin this letter on religious liberty, the last in the series, by challenging the...

View Article


Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/04/11

Benedict XVI was “deeply moved” by the deaths of some 250 migrants whose boat capsized as they fled Libya, a Vatican spokesman has said. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has issued an...

View Article

Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/04/11

Benedict XVI urged Christians to overcome their doubts about Christ’s Resurrection in his Angelus address yesterday (video). Activists in Pakistan report that another Christian has been accused falsely...

View Article


Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/07/11

At the Angelus yesterday Benedict XVI said that Jesus says to both rich and poor: “Come unto me.” A new text in which Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, discusses her abortion has...

View Article

The Ordinariate’s liturgy is beginning to emerge: it will show us what might...

The Ordinariate Portal has now published part three of a lecture by Fr Aidan Nichols on the historical, theological and liturgical origins and possibilities of and for the Personal Ordinariate of Our...

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Peering down a microscope can bring us closer to God

I have just been reading Fr Aidan Nichols’s book, Lost in Wonder: Essays on Liturgy and the Arts. It is an erudite reflection on the need for beauty in liturgy and church architecture, among other...

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