Dr Joseph Shaw

Purity, feminism and masculinity

BY Joseph Shaw

The disappearance of the social consensus restraining impurity, in the course of the 1960s, coincided with a revolution in social…

Our Lord’s ministry of healing

BY Joseph Shaw

This article was originally published in the Spring 2022 issue of Calx Mariae, on the theme of “the Church and…

A review of Christian Fashion in the Teaching of the Church by Virginia Coda Nunziante

by Joseph Shaw This book is being launched in London, in the St Wilfrid Hall of the London Oratory, on…

Prayers in wartime

by Joseph Shaw Through the fog of war in Ukraine, Russia’s invasion has clarified a few things. Above all, it…

The old Mass, and being stricter than the law

by Joseph Shaw Since 2004, with a break in 2020 for COVID, the Archdiocese of Westminster has supplied an auxiliary…

What the Fathers and Saints valued and defended, we also feel called to value and defend

An interview with Dr Joseph Shaw This interview was first published in Voice of the Family’s quarterly magazine, Calx Mariae (Winter, no. 15).…

The family in the defence of the Faith

by Joseph Shaw Just over a century ago, in 1907, the convert priest, Mgr Robert Hugh Benson, published an extraordinary…

Dealing with the enemy’s cultural hegemony

by Joseph Shaw If one is to live a Christian life, let alone evangelise in some small way, one has…

Culture and the Catholic Liturgy: remembering the “Agatha Christie” petition

by Joseph Shaw Almost exactly fifty years ago, 5th November 1971, the reformer of the Catholic liturgy, Archbishop Annibale Bugnini,…

The Sacraments and the emergency services

by Dr Joseph Shaw As the United Kingdom has secularised, so the role of Christian ministers has diminished. If you…

St Pius V and the Mass

By Dr Joseph Shaw In 1570 Pope St Pius V promulgated a new edition of the Missale Romanum, the Roman…

Dante and the Vatican

By Joseph Shaw I was recently surprised to learn that Pope Francis has issued an Apostolic Letter to mark the…