Information and news from the regions and territories overseen by the Archbishop’s episcopal ministry
The crisis of our age is increasingly a crisis of custody. Churches, institutions and nations inherit things they did not create, yet too often behave as though inheritance conferred ownership rather than obligation. The Catholic answer is older and sterner: what is received must be guarded, and what is guarded must be handed on.
Nuntiatoria CXXIII — Qui bene distinguit, bene docet: This week’s edition asks why clear distinctions matter: between criticism and hatred, dialogue and equivalence, pastoral care and managed extinction, safeguarding and ideology, welcome and endorsement, prudence and surrender, information and wisdom. From 9/11, Assisi, the Traditional Mass, Anglican Orders and China to RSHE, gender, religious liberty and recollection, CXXIII argues that sound Catholic judgement begins by refusing to confuse things which are not the same.
NUNTIATORIA CXX — 23.08.26 | DEPOSITUM CUSTODI — Guard What Has Been Entrusted to You. This week’s edition asks whether the Church still understands authority as custody: of the Faith, the liturgy, Catholic anthropology, religious formation, moral truth and institutional identity. From synodality, suppressed religious communities and traditional liturgy to Catholic education, abortion, public religion, Rome and the witness of martyrs, the same question returns: are we guarding what we received, or remaking it in our own image? Depositum custodi. Guard the deposit.
Nuntiatoria CXIX, dated 16 August 2026, takes as its governing motto Accipere, non fingere — “To receive, not to fabricate.” The edition argues that this principle lies close to the heart of Catholicism itself. Revelation, grace, the Sacraments, the Church’s constitution, apostolic authority, the moral law and the liturgy are not inventions of each successive generation, but realities received from God and faithfully handed on. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary provides the edition’s supernatural horizon: Our Lady’s glory is the consummation of her Fiat, showing that human freedom reaches perfection not through self-invention, but through complete conformity to divine truth and grace.
That central idea runs through the edition’s treatment of the conversion of England, the continuing programme of synodality under Leo XIV, the extent of papal authority over the liturgy, the post-conciliar reforms, and the historical position of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. It also informs the examination of sedevacantist claims concerning heresy, pertinacity and loss of ecclesiastical office, insisting that private theological judgement cannot simply be converted into canonical fact. The comparison between Vatican policy towards Communist China and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in revolutionary France raises the related question of whether episcopal authority is truly received from Christ through the Church or may be reshaped by political power. Historical pieces, including consideration of previously unknown material connected with Pius XII, likewise challenge attempts to rewrite the past as though later ecclesiastical developments had always been inevitable.
Alongside these controversies stand the edition’s explicitly devotional and liturgical reflections. The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost is read through the traditional patristic interpretation of the Good Samaritan as Christ healing fallen mankind and bringing it into the inn of the Church. The Assumption, meanwhile, offers the strongest possible answer to the modern revolt against givenness: creation has meaning, the body has meaning, authority has limits, Tradition has claims upon us, and grace fulfils rather than abolishes nature. Taken together, the articles of CXIX contend that the Church’s renewal will not come through manufacturing a Christianity better suited to the age, but through recovering the humility and confidence to receive faithfully what has already been entrusted to her — and to hand it on intact.
Nuntiatoria CXVII examines a series of disputes united by the tension between institutional narratives and observable reality: Cardinal Roche and the traditional Roman Mass; Rome’s handling of the SSPX crisis; Cardinal Hollerich and women’s ordination; the continuing institutionalisation of synodality; secrecy surrounding the Rupnik proceedings; Amnesty International’s apology following its controversial briefing; the publicly funded “Queer Milk” project; the recovery of vocational education; and the Old Roman response to ecclesial disorder. Under the theme Res Sunt Quod Sunt — “Things Are What They Are” — the edition argues for distinctions which neither ecclesiastical nor secular fashion can safely abolish.
Nuntiatoria CXVI considers what happens when institutions retain their offices, laws and outward forms after losing sight of what they are for. The Church exists for the worship of God and the salvation of souls; bishops are appointed to guard the Faith; priests to teach, sanctify and govern; monasteries to offer the solemn praise of God; civil law to protect justice, life and the natural family. Much of the disorder examined in this edition begins when those ends are forgotten and lesser purposes take their place.
This edition of Nuntiatoria considers the common crisis underlying many of the most urgent controversies in the Church and public life: the breakdown of sound judgement and the separation of authority from truth. Its articles examine the manipulation concealed within contemporary synodality, Cardinal Burke’s partial critique of the process, Archbishop Coakley’s defence of it, and the deeper questions of collegiality, Vatican II and ecclesial government.
The edition also turns to the liturgical revolution, the invention of a supposedly primitive Christianity, the Church’s prayers concerning Israel, the continuing growth of the SSPX, and the contrast between flourishing traditional communities and declining official structures. Beyond ecclesiastical affairs, it addresses Bishop Marc Aillet’s warning to Catholic politicians who support euthanasia, Amnesty International’s ideological classification of Christian organisations, the danger posed to religious liberty by proposed conversion-practices legislation, and the urgent need for governors and parents to scrutinise school curricula.
Further contributions consider the destruction caused when accusation replaces due process, the witness of ancient Christian artefacts, the canonical and spiritual questions surrounding Écône, and the lessons of the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost. Taken together, the edition calls for a recovery of clarity, courage, historical memory and the Catholic capacity to judge all things according to truth.
