When Pope Francis imposed severe restrictions on the celebration of the Tridentine Rite he suggested that the faithful who prefer the Latin Mass are motivated not by a sense of heritage and history but a desire to reinforce the divide between traditionalist and progressive factions within the Church. On this issue the Pontiff could not be more wrong

The rush to join the culture the world offers in the hope that believers will stay has not kept the faithful in the pews. Indeed, it has had the opposite effect. In large part, this decline has been the doing of the Church's ordained and lay managerial classes, who find it more comfortable to to frame their perspective through a secular rather than spiritual lens

The state is hugely in debt, Victoria Police is the most politicised force in the nation and, as to the courts, well just ask George Pell about what passes for justice in the Garden State. Now the Red Shirts scandal has come back to life and may well lead straight to Premier Daniel Andrews office. The key question: are the state's institutions too far gone to act?

Vaccine passports have been abandoned in Britain where, quite apart from revulsion at the sort of coercion we are seeing in Australia, COVID itself has made them beside the point. With deaths there among the vaccinated currently running at twice the rate of those who have spurned the jab, what useful purpose can they possibly serve?

In late 2019 the McGowan Labor government in Western Australia […]

While those pushing legislation to break the seal of Confession insist it will protect the victims of child sexual abuse, the effect is likely to be the exact opposite. The grave risk is that victims will not disclose that abuse in the confessional if the priest is obliged to make a mandatory report

Governments' attempts to abolish the Confessional Seal put virtue-signalling ahead of both practicality and good sense. Not only do perpetrators hide their sins, meaning few priests, if any, ever hear such admissions, but many victims will be reluctant to reveal their abuse if police involvement is an mandated certainty