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Preparation for life: Teaching English in the Catholic Way
teacher jennifer kirmes (top-c) works with students attempting to "untie" themselves without releasing hands, during part of science class a...
Nick Ripatrazone
Irish government ignores in-depth report in favour of emotive poem
irish prime minister leo varadkar, gave an insight in parliament last week about how policy is made. speaking in the dáil , he told of...
Dualta Roughneen
The purpose of suffering according to Flannery O’Connor
in a letter to a friend in june 1958, flannery o’connor briefly discussed an acquaintance who had committed suicide. o’connor’s mother (a fr...
Ken Craycraft
Vatican summit on 'theology of the priesthood' will look at questions raised in recent synods
cardinal marc ouellet, prefect of the congregation for bishops (franco origlio/getty images news via cna) cardinal marc ouellet announced mo...
Courtney Mares
Lawyer in ‘trial of the century’ claims defendants treated Vatican bank ‘like a cash machine’
rome – a panel of vatican judges overseeing the trial of ten defendants for extortion and other financial crimes, dubbed the vatican's "tria...
Crux Staff
Sentimentality, politics and BBC’s The Traitors
oscar wilde once scolded his friend lord alfred douglas for his sentimentality, writing that: “a sentimentalist is simply one who desi...
Anthony McCarthy
The Pollens, an English Catholic artistic dynasty
catholicism in england since emancipation in 1829 has thrown up a number of dynasties specialising in architecture and the wider arts. among...
Michael Hodges
Whoever defends God is defending Man
last july i took my kids on the train to the royal society summer science exhibition which coincided with that year’s pride march. on the wa...
Katherine Bennett
Photos of Palestine tell a troubled tale
the bride: an illustrated history of palestine 1850-1948 by roger hardy anthony eyre, £15, 320 pages this account of a momentous century in ...
Piers Brendon
Woman arrested and charged for silent prayer near abortion clinic
police in birmingham have charged a catholic woman with four counts of violating an abortion clinic “buffer zone” after she admitted that sh...
Simon Caldwell
Israel's Vatican ambassador says Pope's comments on right to self-defence filled a 'vacuum'
rome – israel’s ambassador to the vatican has voiced appreciation for pope francis’s recent remarks regarding the catastrophic surprise atta...
Elise Allen
Too Many Self-Righteous Bubbles
special counsel joseph welch ended the mccarthy era with the famous words, “have you no sense of decency?” martha is a flight attendant and ...
PeachSmith
Cardinal Sean O'Malley's 20-year tenure as Archbishop of Boston ends
on 5 august the vatican announced that pope francis has accepted the resignation of cardinal sean o'malley, one of catholicism’s most influe...
Elise Allen
Are young scientists changing their minds about God?
contrary to the prevalent notion that science stands at odds with religion, younger scientists are more open to the concept of a higher spir...
Tom Colsy
The perverse ideology that silences good and celebrates evil
this week, the affiliation of a pro-life student society at the university of manchester has been reported across the mainstream press. whil...
Georgia L. Gilholy
The deeper we enter into Lent the harder we find it - but the rewards are immeasurable
in the fight against injustice, the targets have always been relative to the aim. the suffragettes targeted those denying women the right to...
Katherine Bennett
Brutal murder of 19-year-old woman has exposed clash between ‘New France’ and Catholic conservative 'Old France'
france has in many ways become accustomed to the savagery that has swept the country in the last decade. but the murder of a 19-year-old fem...
Gavin Mortimer
Cardinal Wyszynski and Mother Czacka beatified in Poland
warsaw, poland, sep 12, 2021 / 07:00 am a vatican cardinal beatified two towering figures of 20th-century polish catholicism on sunday. card...
Luke Coppen CNA
Sinéad O’Connor was failed by the Church
in october 1996 i found myself in a seminar group with sinéad o’connor. my name then was o’neill and the alphabet had lumped us together lon...
Katherine Bennett
Catholic schools outperform rivals, says US Government report
fresh data from the us government’s national assessment of educational progress has demonstrated the impact of covid-19 on schoo...
Ignatius Dean
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