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Fr William Massie, the parish priest of three parishes in Hull, and Reviews editor of this magazine, recalls some of Fr Edward Holloway’s insights into priest’s ministering of Christ’s love, which have helped to inspire numerous such vocations through the activities of Faith movement.IntroductionIt is notable how many vocations to the priesthood have been inspired and nurtured within the friendships and activities of Faith...

Contemporary priestly spirituality has tended to make little reference to the Evangelical Counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience. As a consequence, many a diocesan priest has responded to a question about poverty with, “I’m not a religious, we didn’t take that vow”. However, as I shall attempt to indicate in this article, and as the Tradition and Magisterium of the Church insist, these counsels are a...

The Foundations of Law and OrderThe English word 'law' first and foremost evokes the idea of restraint, prohibition and sanction imposed by authority. A law is thought of in terms of a decree which shapes people's behaviour with an external force of threat or encouragement. Ideally, of course, the laws of decency and honesty etc. are internalised so as to become the habit of mind of a well functioning member of society. This is...

Fr Holden, assistant priest in St Augustine's, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and co-author of the popular Evangelium catechetical resource brings out the traditional context in which Pope Benedict is trying to place modern scriptural exegesis, and the great enrichening for all this could involve.The Historical-Critical method of biblical exegesis has dominated scripture study for more than a hundred years. Despite the uneasiness of many theologians,...

With the arrival of the new translation of the Roman Missal there is, as one would expect, much talk about the kind of language we use to express our relationship with God. This is a cause for hope and we welcome the liturgical reforms. Embedded in the debate about what register of language and what kind of words we might use in the Mass is a more fundamental, and vital, question: how valid is it to use any kind of human language to talk to,...

Debates about clerical celibacy are nothing new. There have been many arguments and challenges over the centuries. It is commonly asserted that celibacy is a “medieval” innovation, imposed on Catholic priests only a thousand years ago. In fact, scholarly studies have demonstrated that, in essence, it can be traced back to apostolic times.

Marc Ouellet was ordained priest during the summer of 1968.There was turmoil within the Church over the implementation of Vatican II, and Humanae Vitae was about to be published followed by years of enduring dissent with manifold consequences. In 1967 Pope Paul VI had just written an encyclical in defence of priestly celibacy which might seem surprising just two years after the Vatican II’s Decree on the Life and Ministry of Priests had just defended it. But even during the Council, voices, e...

Dominic Rolls FAITH Magazine January-February 2010Fr Dominic Rolls shows how some key Gospel texts are at the heart of the classical and crucial Christian doctrine, as articulated in the Catechism, that Christ is one person with two distinct natures. He uses some of Edward Holloway s words to bring out the import of this doctrine. Fr Rolls is Parish Priest of Dorking and scripture lecturer at St John's Seminary, Wonersh, Surrey.

Joseph Laracy FAITH Magazine September – October 2011Joseph Laracy offers a succinct and very helpful overview of the development of post-Reformation philosophy, which through modernism and post-modernism affirms presuppositions which, a priori, make the harmony of science and religion impossible.In the process he brings out well how the concepts of "formal and final causes ... are making a serious return" through some modern...

Holloway on… The Word: Certain And Sure in All His WaysEdward Holloway Kneeling before the Christmas Crib we ponder the Word most certain and the certainty of His Word. For: In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was made nothing that was made. ( St. John, the Prologue).