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Dec 18, 2024 | 
wherepeteris.com | Carino Hodder
Any call to action, no matter how necessary and well-meaning, will devolve into platitudes unless we have some idea of when and how to put it into practice. In his 2019 motu proprio letter Vos Estis Lux Mundi, Pope Francis called for “a continuous and profound conversion of hearts… attested by concrete and effective actions that involve everyone in the Church” (VELM, Introduction) to combat ecclesial abuse.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
wherepeteris.com | Carino Hodder
What do catechizing the faithful and safeguarding them from abuse have in common? Both, the Church teaches, are responsibilities belonging to the entire Catholic community.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
plough.com | Carino Hodder
Everything I have learned about freedom in religious life was distilled into one moment at my final profession of religious vows two years ago. I was lying face down on the floor of the cathedral sanctuary in the act of prostration, spread out in the shape of Christ’s cross, feet together and arms flung wide, waiting obediently for my prioress to summon me back to my feet with a knock of her hand.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thelampmagazine.com | Peter Hitchens |Carino Hodder |J. Vance |Stanley Fish
Next year I shall be teaching a course in film noir for the first time, and I thought it might be useful to set down my thoughts about the genre. Definitions and lists of characteristics are not hard to come by.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thelampmagazine.com | Peter Hitchens |Carino Hodder |Stanley Fish |J. Vance
Over the past few years British feminists have developed some interesting views on sex and sexuality, and I am not using the word “interesting” in its authentic British sense, as a euphemism for “utterly deranged.” Among the reactionary feminists—a term coined by the journalist Mary Harrington—is Louise Perry, who writes in her book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution that changes in sexual mores since the 1960s have brought with them a raft of negative consequences, downplayed if not...
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thelampmagazine.com | Peter Hitchens |Carino Hodder |Stanley Fish |J. Vance
I cut my beard recently, and I am forced to admit that I am significantly uglier than I had remembered. The lower-third situation, while less dire than the chinless standard prevalent among the male species of the fourth estate, is not so hot, and is aggravated by the fact that I am running to fat. The resulting mandible-dewlap combination vaguely suggests portraits of the Renaissance popes, and gives me an unsavory air of wicked babyishness.
I have also been reminded how much I hate shaving.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Carino Hodder
The synodal process has spoken many times of the need to listen to abuse survivors. itanistock / Stockimo / Alamy
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May 28, 2024 | 
thelampmagazine.com | Peter Hitchens |Carino Hodder |J. Vance |Stanley Fish
I sometimes complain that the people of my country pay far too little attention to the glories of their own land and culture. They slog for thousands of miles on planes to view the Taj Mahal or the Temples of Angkor Wat, but it never crosses their minds to visit the Cathedrals of Durham or Lincoln. They bore you to death about the beauties of the French countryside, and they have never visited the Malvern Hills or the North York Moors.
But here I make a wider criticism of the modern world.
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May 24, 2024 | 
thelampmagazine.com | Stanley Fish |Peter Hitchens |Dan Hitchens |Carino Hodder
The Spectator of yore had an amusing device: the High Life/Low Life columns. What you got was exactly what it said on the tins. The irrepressible and apparently immortal Taki Theodoracopoulos (a founder of my own publication) would float on a cloud of champagne bubbles around Europe’s regattas, Grand Prix races, and balls—cool marble interiors and glittering gowns, a happy memory of a happy memory, to be sure, but still better than whatever passes for Society with a capital S now.
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May 2, 2024 | 
pillarcatholic.com | Carino Hodder
Pope Francis’ motu proprio Vos estis lux undi turns five years old this month. First promulgated for an experimental period of three years and now in permanent force, the letter delegates the Holy See’s power to investigate Church leaders who have no superior other than the Pope himself - chief among them diocesan bishops - to a metropolitan archbishop, in cases where that Church leader has been accused either of sexual abuse or of mismanaging abuse cases.
