Absolutely null and utterly void
BY Alan Fimister
The essential error of Anglicanism is the subjection of the spiritual to the temporal power. This can never be permitted,…
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Guy Fawkes, Margaret Roper and the apostolate of the laity
BY Alan Fimister
I once came across the recently departed Fr Ian Ker, in his then-parish church somewhere between Oxford and Cheltenham. The…
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BY Alan Fimister
“The holy Fathers were making predictions about the last generation. They said ‘What have we ourselves done?’ One of them,…
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BY Alan Fimister
Amidst the wholesome grief that has accompanied the passing away of our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, much has been said…
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BY Alan Fimister
A remarkable feature of the United States of America — from a European perspective, especially in the latter half of…
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BY Alan Fimister
With the overthrow of Roe v Wade, the battle for the unborn has taken a new turn. Despite its political…
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by Alan Fimister Pew research forum frequently reports dismal statistics about US Catholics, which doubtless reflect a similar picture for…
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by Alan Fimister Britain has of late been united in the celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Commentators have remarked…
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by Alan Fimister “[A]nd the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered; that, when she should…
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by Alan Fimister “[W]e have the hard task of carrying on simultaneously a war on two fronts. We have to…
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