''Christian Order'' is a British-based monthly magazine for

Traditionalist Catholic Traditionalist Catholicism is a movement that emphasizes beliefs, practices, customs, traditions, liturgical forms, devotions and presentations of teaching associated with the Catholic Church before the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). ...

s which was described by John Beaumont of ''Fidelity'' magazine in 1996 as "most influential of the conservative Catholic journals in the United Kingdom". It was originally devoted to the Catholic response to social issues, taking a

distributist Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching princi ...

stance sceptical of the

welfare state A welfare state is a form of government in which the State (polity), state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal oppor ...

. 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) and the lay author Michael Davies. The magazine's rationale is presented in confrontational terms: The

Neocatechumenal Way The Neocatechumenal Way, also known as the Neocatechumenate, or NCW is a program in the Catholic Church. It is inspired by the catechumenate of the early Catholic Church where converts from paganism were prepared for baptism through a process ...

is criticized in the magazine as "heretical" (

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

) and a "Trojan horse" in the Church. 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." The magazine has republished articles from ''Daylight,'' the magazine of the Catholic creationist

Daylight Origins Society This is a list of Catholic creationist organisations. Cercle d'Étude Scientifique et Historique Cercle d'Étude Scientifique et Historique (CESHE), was founded in 1971 in Belgium to preserve and disseminate the work of French scholar Fernand Cr ...

. It has been criticised by ''

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'' magazine for having among its contributors "extremists" (including

John Vennari ''Catholic Family News'' (CFN) is a Traditionalist Catholic monthly publication of Catholic Family Ministries. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Catholic Family News is classified as a hate group for their adherence to integralism ...

), a "race-baiter" (E. Michael Jones) and an "antisemitic conspiracist" (

Robert Sungenis Robert A. Sungenis (born ) is an American Catholic apologist and advocate of the pseudoscientific belief that the Earth is the center of the universe. He has made statements about Jews and Judaism which have been criticized as being antisemitic, ...

), and the website ''Catholic Culture'' suggests that its contents should be looked at in "a critical light" due to "a bias against Church leaders,

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, and the New Mass."Catholic Culture :Site review: ''Christian Order''
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