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Discovering the Catechism with Gavin and Katherine

Discovering the Catechism was instrumental in Gavin's conversion. We read and reflect on this crucial text together. We hope you join us, value the…

Jul 20, 2025 • Katherine Bennett and Gavin Ashenden.

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Our Lady of the Americas & the Pro Life Mission

With Isabel Vaugan-Spruce, Fr Paschal Uche and Fr Sean Gough

Jul 17, 2025 • Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert

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My life as Chaplain to the Queen: Part 1

Watch now (40 mins) | A conversation with Gavin Ashenden

Jul 11, 2025 • Katherine Bennett and Gavin Ashenden.

Growing up Catholic

We chat with Anthony Abbate from Avoiding Babylon

Jul 6, 2025

The Only Way is Ethics

We discuss the recent decision to close the Anscombe Bioethics Centre

Jul 4, 2025

Archbishop leads flock into moral chaos

We discuss the recent comments by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, in which he describes himself as 'thick' for previously holding traditional…

Jul 1, 2025

The importance of Miracle in Lourdes

Jul 1, 2025

Why was Chris Coghlan MP Denied Communion?

Gavin, Katherine and Mark discuss

Jul 1, 2025

Church News

The Synod and the James Martin Paradigm

Study Group No. 9 has exposed a deeper crisis than one controversial report: whether a pastoral method once considered marginal has now become embedded…

May 14 • Mark Lambert

Mercy, Mission and Moral Truth: The Cardinal Vesco Problem

The controversy surrounding Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco reveals a deeper conflict between Catholic anthropology and the modern therapeutic vision of the…

May 13 • Mark Lambert

The Silence Around Study Group No. 9

Why the muted episcopal response to the Synod’s most controversial report may reveal a deeper crisis within synodality itself.

May 13 • Mark Lambert

Is Study Group 9 Already Out of Date?

The Synod’s report on homosexuality bears all the marks of the late Francis era. Pope Leo’s first signals suggest a very different kind of discernment.

May 9 • Mark Lambert

Pope Leo Calls Marx to Account

The Pope’s public audience with Germany’s most powerful Cardinal appears to be a signal that Rome intends to govern once again as Rome.

May 8 • Mark Lambert

The Leo Effect: Money, Trust and the Return of American Confidence in Rome

A surge in elite Catholic giving suggests renewed trust in the papacy, but it also revives an old question about power, influence and the American…

May 6 • Mark Lambert

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Catholic Unscripted

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Tradition and Sanity

Peter Kwasniewski

The Custodian’s Substack

The Custodian

Cultural Commentary

The Anthropology Crisis Beneath the Church’s Sexual Debate

Father James Martin’s response to Pope Leo XIV reveals a deeper conflict within modern Catholicism: not simply over sexuality, but over the meaning of…

May 25 • Mark Lambert

Freedom, Desire and the Loss of Moral Order

His criticism of the Church reveals not an obsession with sexuality, but a civilisation that no longer understands the human person

May 20 • Mark Lambert

The Question No One Wanted Asked About Vatican II

Fr. Robert McTeigue exposes the contradiction at the heart of the Church’s post-conciliar crisis

May 7 • Mark Lambert

What the Church Really Teaches About War

Why Catholic doctrine neither baptises violence nor dissolves into pacifism, and why the argument over Iran matters far beyond Iran

Apr 22 • Mark Lambert

The latest from

Mark Lambert

The Anthropology Crisis Beneath the Church’s Sexual Debate

Katherine Bennett

Bishop Barron and Dave Rubin: Apostolic Office in an Age of Celebrity

Reviews

Life & Death

Creatures of Man

The beginning and endgame is to rip us apart, it is to sterilise us, it is to make us dependent on man, it is to destroy the image of God

Jul 18, 2025 • Katherine Bennett

For a Society Pushing Assisted Suicide

18th July St Camillus, Patron of the Sick,

Jul 18, 2025 • team@catholicunscripted.com

Our Lady of the Americas & the Pro Life Mission

With Isabel Vaugan-Spruce, Fr Paschal Uche and Fr Sean Gough

Jul 17, 2025 • Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert

48:38

AUDIO VERSION Our Lady of the Americas & the Pro Life Mission

Listen now | With Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, Fr Paschal Uche and Fr Sean Gough

Jul 17, 2025 • Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert

48:38

The Bishops

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We're Back! Catholics in Britain

Pierpaolo Finaldi and Emily Bennett join Katherine Bennett to discuss 'We Believe' the festival of Catholic Life in UK

Jul 30, 2025 • Katherine Bennett

48:38

AUDIO VERSION Our Lady of the Americas & the Pro Life Mission

Listen now | With Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, Fr Paschal Uche and Fr Sean Gough

Jul 17, 2025 • Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert

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