# Christian Order

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{{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 Catholic](/source/Traditionalist_Catholic)s<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](/source/distributist) stance sceptical of the [welfare state](/source/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](/source/The_Angelus_(magazine))''</ref> and the lay author [Michael Davies](/source/Michael_Davies_(Catholic_writer)).<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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Neocatechumenal_Way) is criticized in the magazine as "heretical" ([Lutheran](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Searchlight_(magazine))'' magazine for having among its contributors "extremists" (including [John Vennari](/source/John_Vennari)), a "race-baiter" (E. Michael Jones) and an "antisemitic conspiracist" ([Robert Sungenis](/source/Robert_Sungenis)),<ref>[http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=16 Faith-based fascists bridging the waters], ''[Searchlight](/source/Searchlight_(magazine))'' 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](/source/Vatican_II), and the [New Mass](/source/Mass_of_Paul_VI)."<ref>[http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/reviews/view.cfm?recnum=1665 Catholic Culture :Site review: ''Christian Order'']</ref>

==References==
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Category:Traditionalist Catholic magazines
Category:Catholic Church in England and Wales
Category:History of Catholicism in England
Category:Traditionalist Catholicism in Europe

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