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The Catholic Church is by far the largest provider of education in Ireland. For the good of the Faith, that must now come to an end

Record Bible sales among young people suggest a cultural shift. Disillusioned with political binaries and moral emptiness, a new generation is turning to Scripture for meaning

Laity and diocesan staff in the Diocese of Charlotte speak out following the first Sunday under the altar rail ban

A controversial televised Christmas Eve Mass from Stuttgart has forced a German diocese into a public apology, but the fallout points to a deeper crisis over liturgy, authority and theology in the German Church

Georges Lemaître came to Cambridge for a single year which would shape the emergence of Big Bang cosmology and change physics forever

Praised by some as a bold evangelist and criticised by others for blurring the lines, Padre Guilherme’s nightclub set in Beirut has ignited debate: how far can a priest go in adopting the symbols of secular culture without obscuring the meaning of the priesthood itself?

Dry January and Veganuary arrive at precisely the wrong moment in the Christian year, clashing not only with tradition but with the season itself

Almost five years on from Traditionis Custodes, the Traditional Latin Mass has been placed in a liturgical limbo, neither promoted nor penalised

As Myanmar marks five years since its military coup, the junta’s staged elections, mass repression and escalating humanitarian catastrophe expose a crisis

At the first extraordinary consistory of Pope Leo’s pontificate, Cardinal Joseph Zen delivered a stark critique of the Synod on Synodality, warning that it risks fracturing the Church

Fr Michael Nazir-Ali shares his journey from Anglican bishop to Catholic priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Bishop Martin’s directive to prohibit the use of altar rails is being met with strong opposition from both laity and priests alike

Two decades ago, New Atheism was raging against Christianity. Today, it is more often a sympathiser

The Church’s struggle to define synodality is increasingly entangled with a poorly defined critique of authority

As abortion laws expand and protections for the unborn are stripped away, women across the world are leading the fight to defend human life from conception to natural death

With United States military intervention leaving Venezuela in a precarious position, the Catholic Church may once again be called upon to fill a moral and institutional vacuum

As Catholics look toward renewed engagement with the Orthodox Churches, the long and often fruitful dialogue with the Coptic Church shows how ancient divisions can be approached without denying history or doctrine

One hundred and seventy-five years after his reception into the Catholic Church, Henry Manning remains one of the most formidable and most maligned figures of Victorian religious life

Archbishop Laterza caused a media storm with his comments about freedom, but for Catholics they should come as no shock

Joseph Shaw assesses what Pope Leo’s first Extraordinary Consistory will reveal about the balance between tradition and progress in the new pontificate