Conservative Catholics in Australia

May 31, 2026

Warhurst’s article is timely if very depressing. Here in Adelaide the Church and its leadership especially the Cathedral Diocese are to the right of Franco. Murdoch’s The Australian is the paper of choice for most of the clergy especially the Latin Mass lot who have it delivered to the steps of the church where their presbytery is. And if you are unlucky enough to be engaged in conversation by the aged Mass attenders they will parrot back ad nausem Murdoch’s line or that of Sky News. And lo the Catholic paper even had Sheridan over as a guest. And they wonder why the pews are empty. And we won’t mention the medieval theology that drives the church here.