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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

Is Someone Trying to Tie Pope Leo to Cardinal Roche’s Liturgical Agenda?

Anonymous Vatican briefings are fuelling claims that Pope Leo has fully endorsed Cardinal Roche's liturgical agenda—but is the evidence really there?

Aug 3 • Mark Lambert

Cardinal Roche Speaks for Pope Leo XIV. But Should We Believe Him?

Has the outgoing Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship revealed the Pope’s intentions—or is he attempting to shape them?

Jul 31 • Mark Lambert

Who Does Pope Leo XIV Trust?

What Archbishop Cordileone's appointment—and the rumours surrounding Bishop Erik Varden—may reveal about the Pope's emerging priorities.

Jul 27 • Mark Lambert

How Can We Solve The Vocations Crisis Without Facing This Uncomfortable Truth?

Some Ideas About Why Young Catholic Men Aren't Becoming Priests

Jul 25 • Mark Lambert

Synodality: The Mechanism by Which Doctrine Remains and Everything Changes

Cardinal Burke’s deceptively simple question exposes the unresolved contradiction at the heart of the Francis pontificate

Jul 16 • Mark Lambert

Mercy Must Have a Country: Pope Leo, Migration and the Truth He Leaves Out.

The Church's teaching on migration has always held together compassion, justice and the common good. Why, then, do so many Catholics hear only one half…

Jul 15 • Mark Lambert

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Cultural Commentary

Are We Living Through the Great Apostasy?

The constant temptation to give up hope & why it is wrong

Jul 28 • Mark Lambert

The Faithful Remnant and the Living Church

If the Holy Spirit still guides the Church, where has He been leading her since the Second Vatican Council?

Jul 13 • Mark Lambert

The Rights of the Child and the Desires of Adults

Why the Church's ancient anthropology stands against the commodification of human life

Jun 18 • Mark Lambert

We Have Forgotten What Man Is

The crisis of immigration, the rise of populism, and the Church's neglected teaching on nations, culture, and the common good.

Jun 9 • Mark Lambert

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Andrew Tate: A Modern Day Machiavelli with Muscles

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Life & Death

ACTION NEEDED: Latest Assisted Suicide Bill

It's back already

Jul 22 • Mark Lambert

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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