{{Short description|British-based monthly magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Christian Order | editor = Rod Pead | editor_title = Editor | previous_editor = Fr Paul Crane SJ | frequency = monthly | category = Conservative Catholicism | firstdate = 1960 | country = UK | based = UK | language = English | website = http://www.christianorder.com/ | issn = 0009-5559 }}
'''''Christian Order''''' is a British-based monthly magazine for Traditionalist Catholics<ref>[http://www.christianorder.com/index.html ''Christian Order''] official website</ref> which was described by John Beaumont of ''Fidelity'' magazine in 1996 as "most influential of the conservative Catholic journals in the United Kingdom".<ref>[http://sspx.agenda.tripod.com/id23.html "The Vanishing Schism Revisited"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514061547/http://sspx.agenda.tripod.com/id23.html |date=14 May 2008 }}, by John Beaumont, ''Fidelity'' magazine, November 1996</ref>
It was originally devoted to the Catholic response to social issues, taking a distributist stance sceptical of the welfare state.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061003182058/http://tcbh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/86 "Faith and Community Threatened? Roman Catholic Responses to the Welfare State, Materialism and Social Mobility, 1945–62"] by Joan Keating, ''Twentieth Century History'', Volume 9, Number 1, Oxford University Press</ref><ref name="Miceli1985">{{cite book|author=Vincent P. Miceli|title=Women Priests and Other Fantasies|url=https://archive.org/details/womenpriestsothe00vinc|url-access=registration|accessdate=2 May 2020|year=1985|publisher=Christopher Publishing House|isbn=978-0-8158-0423-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenpriestsothe00vinc/page/n70 49]}}</ref> In the 1970s a number of contributors were attracted such as George Telford (former vice-chairman and Secretary to the Catechetical Commission of the Bishops of England and Wales)<ref>[http://www.angelusonline.org/print.php?sid=2976 "The Kingship of Christ Since Vatican II"]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, by Michael Davies, ''The Angelus''</ref> and the lay author Michael Davies.<ref>[http://www.ifuv.org/docs/michaeldavies_01.html Michael Davies obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717132655/http://www.ifuv.org/docs/michaeldavies_01.html |date=17 July 2010 }}, Leo Darroch, 27 April 2005, Mass of Ages, hosted on the website of Una Voce</ref>
The magazine's rationale is presented in confrontational terms: {{blockquote|Unless the Church is militant, She cannot thrive and flourish. Thus Christian Order is a militant antidote to the secular "live and let live" attitude which has brought the Church low. For forty years it has embodied that uncompromising spirit demanded by Pope Leo XIII, who contended that in times of necessity each Catholic is "under obligation to show forth his faith to instruct and encourage other of the Faithful" (Sapientiae Christianae).<ref>[http://www.christianorder.com/about.html About Us], Christian Order</ref>}}
The Neocatechumenal Way is criticized in the magazine as "heretical" (Lutheran) and a "Trojan horse" in the Church.<ref>{{cite journal |url = http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2002/features_oct02.html |title = The Last Trojan Horse? |author = Michael McGrade |work = Christian Order |date = October 2002 |accessdate = 8 September 2008 |journal = |archive-date = 16 May 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516094129/http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2002/features_oct02.html |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=New Oxford Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ6XHt7Vh_kC|accessdate=2 May 2020|volume=75|year=2008|publisher=American Church Union|pages=11–19}}</ref> In an article published in the magazine, CJ O'Hehir described Ireland as "the most anti-Catholic Catholic country in the world, and the most monolithically liberal of the world's democracies."<ref>[https://archive.today/20070812032258/http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2005/11/13/story9624.asp "All on the anti-Church bandwagon"], by Kieron Wood, The Sunday Business Post, 13 November 2005</ref> The magazine has republished articles from ''Daylight,'' the magazine of the Catholic creationist Daylight Origins Society.<ref> {{cite journal | url= http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_1998/features_aug-sep98.html |title = Theistic Evolution and the Mystery of FAITH |author= Anthony Nevard | work = Christian Order | date=August–September 1998 |accessdate=8 September 2008}} </ref><ref> {{cite journal | url= http://www.christianorder.com/editorials/editorials_2006/editorials_jan06.html | title = Editorial: Evolving Into Atheism | work = Christian Order | date=January 2006 | accessdate=8 September 2008}} </ref>
It has been criticised by ''Searchlight'' magazine for having among its contributors "extremists" (including John Vennari), a "race-baiter" (E. Michael Jones) and an "antisemitic conspiracist" (Robert Sungenis),<ref>[http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=16 Faith-based fascists bridging the waters], ''Searchlight'' magazine, Mike Reynolds, March 2004</ref> and the website ''Catholic Culture'' suggests that its contents should be looked at in "a critical light" due to "a bias against Church leaders, Vatican II, and the New Mass."<ref>[http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/reviews/view.cfm?recnum=1665 Catholic Culture :Site review: ''Christian Order'']</ref>
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