03 July 2025

'Open Communion': a sign of disintegration, not progress

Many Protestant churches today accept and celebrate indiscriminate eucharistic sharing. Fr Ian of St Mary Magdalene parish, Blaenau Ffestiniog, questions the wooly thinking behind such a practice, which has come to enjoy growing support among Catholics.            

A typical group photograph after a typical Catholic First Communion Mass
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There's something about Mary

Consider this tale of woe, reported some time ago, on the website of the pressure group The Association of Interchurch Families.

God and War. Some thoughts about how we interpret the Old Testament

by Father Ian Dalgleish Photograph: ‘Damage in the Gaza Strip during October 2023 ’  by Al Araby  Earlier in September, in connection with a...