The Catholic leadership of the entire continent of Africa has rejected blessings for same-sex unions authorised last month by the Pope. The African bishops have issued an emphatic, and unified ...

While Facing The Modern, the National Gallery’s exhibition of Viennese portraits, can hardly sidestep the overarching doom, it avoids anything so vulgar as making this a raison d’etre. For ...

At stake is whether Iraq will finally emerge from the trauma of Saddam Hussein and the past sixteen years, to become a legitimate, independent and functioning country, or whether it will become a ...

"Archbishop Eamon Martin explained the deep concerns already expressed with regard to the criminalising of leading, and gathering for, public worship at this time in Ireland despite the consistent ...

Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed almost 55,000 Christians in the last 14 years, a new report has said.

And that’s fine. Our Lady doesn’t mind. After all, excepting only Our Lord, Joseph was the most precious person in her life. And we need this male perspective. Joseph shows us the importance ...

The scandal of elected officials – such as President Biden – who take Communion yet promote views at odds with the Catholic Church must be countered, says Fr Gerald E Murray ...

Tombs encourage meditation on eternity. Nursing homes feel like groaning waystations to the grave. Which may be why so many will let the old people die.

California’s second lockdown, like its first, has been unusually severe. But in recent months, outdoor church services have been introduced in some parishes, thanks to the help of creative ...

Police have labelled sectarian graffiti found on a Catholic church in Northern Ireland as a hate crime. They are investigating accordingly.

The feeding of the 5,000 notwithstanding, the founder of Christianity never seemed all that enamoured with large-scale public worship. “ ...

Solemnity of the Holy Trinity Exodus 34: 4-6 & 8-9; 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13; John 3: 16-18 “Moses called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed ‘Lord, Lord, a God ...