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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.

48:38

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

40:28

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

When Law Breaks Down

The SSPX, episcopal consecrations, and a Church struggling to govern itself coherently

Feb 2 • Mark Lambert

Bätzing’s Synodal Illusion: Germany’s Church Faces the Endgame

The German Synodal Way Is Breaking Down in Public

Feb 2 • Mark Lambert

Pope Leo: A Change of Voice, or a Change of Course?

Pope Leo XIV, Vatican II, and the Struggle Between Truth and Process in Today’s Church

Jan 27 • Mark Lambert

Pope Leo meets Cardinal who covered up large-scale clergy sexual abuse and was stripped of public duties

Mahony, Gomez And The Optics Of Power In An American Papacy

Jan 24 • Mark Lambert

Listening Without Signalling: What the Pope’s Meeting With the FSSP Really Was

A close reading of the Fraternity’s own account reveals a procedural audience, not a shift in liturgical policy, and exposes the gap between documented…

Jan 22 • Mark Lambert

The Consistory Document No One Is Allowed to Read

A private intervention, a silenced debate, and why the liturgy question refuses to go away

Jan 12 • Mark Lambert

Catholic Unscripted

Catholic Unscripted

Fearless. Bold. Truthful. Because the Church is more than polite small talk

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Tradition and Sanity

Tradition and Sanity

Peter Kwasniewski

The Custodian’s Substack

The Custodian’s Substack

The Custodian

Cultural Commentary

The Happiness God Wants for Us

How Catholic faith unites joy, suffering and the promise of Heaven

Jan 30 • Mark Lambert

To Young Catholics in an Age of Betrayal

Archbishop Viganò’s Address on Courage, Grace, and Fidelity to Christ the King

Jan 17 • Mark Lambert

Receiving Christ: Why the Eucharist Demands More Than Habit

Rediscovering reverence, confession, and the life-changing power of the Body and Blood of Christ in our daily lives and families

Jan 5 • Mark Lambert

The Hidden Arsenal Catholics Forget They Carry

On the supernatural power of the Holy Name and the forgotten weapon of aspiration

Jan 5 • Mark Lambert

The latest from

Katherine Bennett

Up to my Neck in σκύβαλα

Mark Lambert

St Anne Line and the Cost We No Longer Count

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

32:03

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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