Archive - Motu Proprio

Who owns the pope’s body?

Leo, AI and the limits of Catholic devotion

Oct 20 • Miles Pattenden

September 2026

Universities and the faculty of judgement

What we should learn from the Jason Arday affair

Sep 9 • Miles Pattenden

The Holy Ghost in the machine

Pope Leo confronts AI

Sep 9 • Miles Pattenden

When popes and emperors collide

History should inform Pope Leo XIV’s criticisms of Donald Trump

Sep 9 • Miles Pattenden

The very model of a modern man of faith

Pope Francis and the Church he leaves behind

Sep 9 • Miles Pattenden

A Middle Ages for Middle Australia

From Luna Park to neo‑Nazis, why Europe’s deep past still matters Down Under

Sep 9 • Miles Pattenden

When Baptism goes wrong

The Church’s rules in a new era of legalism

Sep 9 • Miles Pattenden

Blythburgh from half a world away

If I could go anywhere...it would have been here

Sep 8 • Miles Pattenden

On Historians and the Historicity of Jesus

An Exchange with Professor John Dickson

Sep 8 • Miles Pattenden

George Pell’s “prison journal”

Whether or not George Pell’s “prison journal” rehabilitated him in the eyes of the public, it certainly deserved full appraisal as an historical…

Sep 8 • Miles Pattenden

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