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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

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My life as Chaplain to the Queen: Part 1

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 Doctrine Becomes a Disclaimer

Leo XIV’s new Nostra Aetate Note reaffirms Christ as the sole Redeemer—but does it still allow that truth to govern dialogue and mission?

Sep 18 • Mark Lambert

Is Pope Leo Really Closing the Door on the Latin Mass?

The Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage has lost St Peter’s, but gained the high altar of St Mary Major. Defeat, compromise, or something else entirely?

Sep 10 • Mark Lambert

Whose Man Is He? Leo XIV, Lizardo Estrada and the Return of Papal Patronage

There are episcopal appointments which are surprising, appointments which are disappointing and there are appointments which seem to demand an…

Sep 4 • Mark Lambert

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The Interview We Had to Remove… and Some Big News | Off the Record

Our Latest Members Only Video

Sep 3 • Mark Lambert

Pope Leo Says the Liturgical Reform Was Necessary. But Where Did Everybody Go?

The Pope says Vatican II’s reforms were needed to encourage greater participation. Sixty years of collapsing Mass attendance make that claim…

Aug 27 • Mark Lambert

A Catholic Biblical Association Without the Catholic Faith?

How can Catholic biblical scholarship remain Catholic when belief in the central proclamation of Scripture is apparently optional?

Aug 23 • Mark Lambert

Catholic Unscripted

Catholic Unscripted

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

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Cultural Commentary

Birmingham’s War on the Flag Is a Symptom of Something Much Worse

The council chose injunctions and removal — revealing a country increasingly unsure what its people are supposed to belong to.

Aug 31 • Mark Lambert

Why Is Pride Losing Friends? The Question the BBC Predictably Won’t Ask

The BBC sees backlash, budgets and politics. What it will not confront is the darker crisis of safeguarding, sexual boundaries and the presence of…

Aug 26 • Mark Lambert

The Pope Is Not Absolute. Neither Are We.

How the failures of recent Church governance are driving some faithful Catholics towards an ecclesiology that empties the papacy of its divine…

Aug 10 • Mark Lambert

Are We Living Through the Great Apostasy?

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

Jul 28 • Mark Lambert

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When Doctrine Becomes a Disclaimer

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How Harm Harmed Us

Reviews

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

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

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

Jul 17, 2025 • Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert

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