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13/09/2025

Happy 70th birthday to Pope Leo XIV! On Sunday 14th September, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, Pope Leo celebrates seven decades on this earth and his first birthday as Pope! So how can the world’s Catholics celebrate his birthday? Find some ideas below! 👇

🇻🇦 If you love Pope Leo, you’ll love our Pope Leo XIV posters (in A4 and A3), prayer cards, and the encyclical “Rerum Novarum”, close to Pope Leo XIV’s heart and written by his namesake Pope Leo XIII: https://www.ctsbooks.org/pope-leo-xiv/

11/09/2025

Did you know that Church attendance in the UK is growing, especially among young people? Watch the latest episode of Into the Truth to learn what the authors of our new book "After Secularisation" believe the future of British Catholicism looks like:

YouTube: https://loom.ly/4FwVO1A
Get the Book - "After Secularisation: The Present and Future of British Catholicism": https://loom.ly/w3e4bx0

Spotify: https://loom.ly/XFunRQ8
Apple: https://loom.ly/mrfsjRo

10/09/2025

"Dear friends, Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces." (Pope Leo XIV)

Discover the lives of these two new saints with two newly updated CTS biographies! Learn more about St Carlo and St Pier Giorgio, how they reached such heights of holiness, and how you can follow in their footsteps: https://loom.ly/kkPZZBA

05/09/2025

The authors of our new book, 'After Secularisation' joined us LIVE at WeBelieve Festival to explore the Catholic story of The Quiet Revival!

Authors Bernadette Durcan & Professor Stephen Bullivant (St Mary's University, Twickenham) and Dr Hannah Vaughan-Spruce (Divine Renovation Ministry) explore what happens after a society has become as secular as it can, how COVID changed things and why young men seem to be leading this renewal in the Church.

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Did you know that Church attendance in the UK is growing, especially among young people? This year, 'The Quiet Revival Report' demonstrated that Church decli...

03/09/2025

St Gregory the Great (540-604) belonged to a Roman patrician family and served as a magistrate before embracing the monastic life. He acted as papal legate at Constantinople and was elected Pope in 590. He tightened Church discipline and liturgical practice, reorganised the lands belonging to the Holy See and sent St Augustine to convert the Kingdom of Kent. Thanks to his theological and pastoral writings, he is a Doctor of the Church.

03/09/2025

Great to see our new book "After Secularisation: The Present and Future of British Catholicism" covered in Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse!

New book finds strong reason for hope despite Church’s receding footprint: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2025/08/new-book-finds-strong-reason-for-hope-despite-churchs-receding-footprint/

Get your copy of the book to find out what the future holds for the Catholic Church in Britain: https://www.ctsbooks.org/product/after-secularisation/

After Secularisation is a helpful reminder, exhibiting the genuine hopefulness of hard-nosed realism, that we are still in early spring, when violent winds and driving rains are never unexpected.

29/08/2025

How do you go from atheist to Catholic Nun? Sr Carino (of the Dominican Sisters of St Joseph) tells the story of her conversion, from a member of the New Atheism movement to discovering that the teachings of the Catholic Church made sense of her life.

How do you go from no religion at all to a Catholic Nun? Sr Carino tells the story of her conversion at the age of 20, going from a member of the New Atheism...

28/08/2025

Happy feast of St Augustine of Hippo! Pause for a moment and pray this beautiful prayer he composed:

Lord Jesus, let me know myself and know you,
And desire nothing, save only you.
Let me hate myself and love you.
Let me do everything for the sake of you.
Let me humble myself and exalt you.
Let me think of nothing except you.
Let me die to myself and live in you.
Let me accept whatever happens as from you.
Let me banish self and follow you,
And ever desire to follow you.
Let me fly from myself and take refuge in you,
That I may deserve to be defended by you.
Let me fear for myself, let me fear you,
And let me be among those who are chosen by you.
Let me distrust myself and put my trust in you.
Let me be willing to obey for the sake of you.
Let me cling to nothing, save only to you,
And let me be poor because of you.
Look upon me, that I may love you.
Call me, that I may see you,
And for ever enjoy you.
Amen.

22/08/2025

Sr Carino of the wonderful Dominican Sisters of St Joseph came by the podcast to talk about her new CTS book, 'The Dignity of Women in the Modern World'!

In this episode, Piero and Sr Carino explore her conversion from new atheism and her journey to becoming a nun, why a feminism that asks women to be like men doesn't work, St Pope John Paul II's call for women to create a new feminism and why modern feminists are coming to catholic conclusions.

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'The question what is a woman rests on a prior question which is what is a person?'This week, we have a great guest with us, Dominican sister Sr Carino Hodde...

18/08/2025

Is the Catholic Church dying out? You may have noticed declining numbers at Sunday Mass. You may have been told that the Catholic Church is dying out, with some even speculating that by the 2060s, the Church will be extinct.

However, the authors of our new book "After Secularisation: The Present and Future of British Catholicism" argue that this is not the case. While the data shows that Mass attendance has fallen steeply over the past decades, "After Secularisation" gives both principled and statistical reasons for hope regarding the future of the Church in Britain.

"After Secularisation" is a must-read for every Catholic who wants to understand the reality of the state of the Church in Britain today and where genuine signs of hope, growth and renewal are emerging.

Learn the truth in "After Secularisation": https://loom.ly/w3e4bx0

12/08/2025

Check out our new podcast with composer Sir James MacMillan recorded live at WeBelieve Festival!

Sir James, one of today’s most successful composers, explores how the first Christians sang their prayers, what traditions they drew on and how we can rediscover the ancient roots of Catholic music.

Watch: https://loom.ly/zwT7V2I

How did the first Christians sing their prayers? What traditions did they draw on? And how do we sing our prayers today?Sir James MacMillan is one of today’s...