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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

A Photograph, A Panic, and A Familiar Pattern

Why a 30 year old photo raises real questions — but not the conclusions many are rushing to draw

Mar 23 • Mark Lambert

Leo XIV & Amoris Laetitia: Reopening a Wound the Church Has Not Healed

Why revisiting Amoris Laetitia may prove a dangerous and destabilising move for Pope Leo XIV

Mar 20 • Mark Lambert

Benedictine Doctor of the Liturgy Appointed as Bishop for Belleville

What the Appointment of Godfrey Mullen May Signal

Mar 13 • Mark Lambert

The First Signs of a New Papal Order?

Why Leo XIV’s changes in Washington and inside the Apostolic Palace suggest the Francis era is quietly ending

Mar 7 • Mark Lambert

Steadying the Barque: The Emerging Strategy of Pope Leo XIV

How Leo’s vision for theology signals a turn from provocation to consolidation, offering clarity and confidence to the orthodox faithful.

Mar 3 • Mark Lambert

The Unsolvable SSPX Equation

Sympathy for the SSPX diagnosis cannot justify separation from the visible unity of the Church

Mar 2 • Mark Lambert

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Cultural Commentary

The Seduction of Suspicion

How a growing strain of Catholic commentary is reshaping trust, authority and judgement

9 hrs ago • Mark Lambert

Abortion Up to Birth: A Moral Collapse and a Test the Church Failed to Meet

Welcome to a post Christian England & Wales.

Mar 19 • Mark Lambert

The Sword in the Stone, Lourdes, and the Sceptic’s Challenge

Why some miracle claims deserve more respect than a shrug

Mar 14 • Mark Lambert

Go to Church Anyway

Why the Church is not a refuge for the perfect but a hospital for the broken, and what Lourdes taught me about unity, pilgrimage and communion in love.

Feb 16 • Mark Lambert

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The Death of Waxworks and the War on Reality

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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

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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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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

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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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