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In this week's episode I ask the uncomfortable but important questions about Catholic education. Is there an impossible tension in the current culture when we try to run Catholic schools within a secular curriculum? What does it mean for a school to be Catholic if only a minority of staff and pupils practice the faith? Should we close Catholic schools or reform them? Why are some parents opting for home education?

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In this week's episode I ponder why modern culture abhors the notion of "judging others", acting as if personal choices have no moral value, even as it itself judges others harshly and shows no mercy whatsoever within a cancel culture.

Is judgement something to be avoided or embraced?

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In this episode I show how Jason Arday is the most boring aspect of the tumult surrounding his appointment at Cambridge University.

The real villain is an intransigent modernist ideology that demands blind obedience and therefore destroys the very framework of adversarial thinking that enabled historic academia to flourish.

Cambridge University must return to its historic philosophy or be destroyed; a process that will require sacrificial levels of honesty, repentance and open mindedness.

Does Cambridge have the humility and intellectual ability to learn from its obvious mistakes? Or will it arrogantly double down on the unthinking ideology that now directs our metropolitan elites at terrible cost to itself?

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In this week's episode I speak with Iwan Williams, the Seminarian on placement in Pembury from Allen Hall in London, who speaks openly about being adopted as a child and how re-connecting with his birth mother encouraged a return to his Heavenly Father.

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In this episode I explore what is meant when people state that Andy Burnham is a Catholic. What do we make of the fact he publicly supports euthanasia and abortion even as people label him a member of Christ's Church? Is his baptism enough to grant inclusion? Is his undoubtedly Catholic background sufficient to make him one of our own? Does his public stance prohibit the label of Catholic now being applied to him?

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In this week's episode I pay homage to the murdered politician Ann Widdecombe. I contemplate her life and the witness of her Christian faith and I ask what legacy she leaves us. May she rest in peace.

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In this week's episode I reflect on the schism that occurred when the SSPX took themselves out of communion with the Catholic Church when they consecrated new bishops without a papal mandate. Are they victims or aggressors? Do they merit our sympathy or criticism? Here is my take...

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In this week's episode I reflect on the beautiful reredos located in the sacred heard chapel at St Anselm's in Pembury which was created by C R Ashbee a prominent member of the Arts and Crafts movement. This reflection leads me to ponder the role of beauty in the world and in the faith and to consider how important the quest for beauty might be...

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