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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

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.

18 hrs ago • 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

Truth and Love, or a Polite Fiction

Pope Leo XIV, Sarah Mullally, and the problem at the heart of modern ecumenism

Apr 27 • Mark Lambert

Enough of War, But Then What?

Pope Leo XIV offers moral clarity in a moment of crisis, but his vision raises harder questions about power, responsibility, and the limits of…

Apr 13 • Mark Lambert

Bishop Barron, Judas, and the Illusion of Universal Salvation

When hope becomes presumption, the Church’s mission begins to wither.

Apr 7 • Mark Lambert

Tradition, Authority, and Amnesia: Cardinal Roche and the Failure of Traditionis Custodes

A policy that sought to impose unity has instead exposed deeper questions about liturgy, continuity, and the limits of curial judgment

Apr 1 • Mark Lambert

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Catholic Unscripted

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

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Tradition and Sanity

Peter Kwasniewski

The Custodian’s Substack

The Custodian

Cultural Commentary

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 Historian Who Sees the Ruins — But Not Yet the Altar

David Starkey diagnoses Britain’s collapse with unsettling clarity. But can reason alone explain what has been lost?

Apr 18 • Mark Lambert

The Seduction of Suspicion

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

Mar 30 • Mark Lambert

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Mark Lambert

Pope Leo Calls Marx to Account

Katherine Bennett

The Other Bennet Sister and The Lie of Freedom

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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