Charlie Kirk Saw Britain’s Decline — and Signs of Change Ahead
COMMENTARY: At Oxford and Cambridge, Kirk confronted secular dogmas and protests, yet beyond the elite halls he sensed a people impatient for change.
COMMENTARY: At Oxford and Cambridge, Kirk confronted secular dogmas and protests, yet beyond the elite halls he sensed a people impatient for change.
ANALYSIS: The country is facing many socio-political ills that Church leaders and others link to a spiritual vacuum but signs of a Catholic revival are said to be ‘bubbling under the surface.’
How a series of radio plays in the 1940s evangelized a nation
COMMENTARY: Although an Anglican liturgy, the solemn service May 6 featured facets Catholics can pay attention to.
COMMENTARY: The coronation of King Charles consecrated him symbolically as a priest-king like Solomon.
As part of the coronation, the king’s head, hands, and breast will be anointed with chrism oil, which in the Catholic Church is most commonly associated with baptism and confirmation.
‘The King’s good servant but God’s first’ and other saintly links to the outgoing prime minister’s life.
COMMENTARY: At the end of Mass on Sunday, Catholics offered a special prayer and sang the national anthem, a hymn that asks God’s blessing on the sovereign and by implication the nation.
Most Catholic schools in England receive government funding, with the Church covering about 10% of costs and the state providing the rest.
“For the first time in history,” said Pope St. John Paul II after he stepped off the airplane, “a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil.”
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