“Hold on to your Kids”: children and social media
BY Joseph Shaw
I don’t like referring to children as “kids”, but this is the title of a book some readers may find…
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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…
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BY Joseph Shaw
This article was originally published in the Spring 2022 issue of Calx Mariae, on the theme of “the Church and…
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by Joseph ShawThis book is being launched in London, in the St Wilfrid Hall of the London Oratory, on Thursday…
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by Joseph ShawThrough the fog of war in Ukraine, Russia’s invasion has clarified a few things. Above all, it has…
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by Joseph ShawSince 2004, with a break in 2020 for COVID, the Archdiocese of Westminster has supplied an auxiliary bishop…
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An interview with Dr Joseph ShawThis interview was first published in Voice of the Family’s quarterly magazine, Calx Mariae (Winter, no. 15). Dr…
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by Joseph ShawJust over a century ago, in 1907, the convert priest, Mgr Robert Hugh Benson, published an extraordinary and…
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by Joseph ShawIf one is to live a Christian life, let alone evangelise in some small way, one has to…
READ MORECulture and the Catholic Liturgy: remembering the “Agatha Christie” petition
by Joseph ShawAlmost exactly fifty years ago, 5th November 1971, the reformer of the Catholic liturgy, Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, wrote…
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by Dr Joseph ShawAs the United Kingdom has secularised, so the role of Christian ministers has diminished. If you read…
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By Dr Joseph ShawIn 1570 Pope St Pius V promulgated a new edition of the Missale Romanum, the Roman Missal,…
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