Life

Family, vocation, the everyday work of being Catholic.

Pope says it's a 'grave sin' to deny God has blessed other Christians

just as divisions in society grow when wealth is not shared, divisions within christianity grow when the richness of gifts god has given to ...

US Senate fails to advance bill to ban federal abortion funding

in a procedural vote on thursday, the republican-led u.s. senate failed to advance a bill that would prohibit taxpayer funding for abortions...

Catholic News Agency

Catholics belong at Burns Night

last january 25 and next january 25, i took and shall take part in a ritual at once solemn and amusing, timeless and spontaneous – not part ...

Charles Coulombe

A unique yet universal journey into the Church

from fire, by water by sohrab ahmari ignatius, 240pp, £18/$22 my first thought when reading sohrab ahmari’s from fire by water: my journey t...

While the National Youth Orchestra exists, there is still hope

one of the most depressing things on british television these days – apart from the new adaptation of les misérables , which is such a painf...

The orders growing so fast that they are running out of room

much has been written over the past few decades about the dramatic decline of religious life in the united states since the close of the sec...

The new Sisterhood: traditional orders are booming

the blue-and-white clad sisters of the community of our lady of walsingham have recently acquired a new novitiate, a converted barn in dereh...

How can we make younger people interested in religion?

i spent january 7 in oxford, arriving as the church bells rang out at midday. it was “0th week”, so only a few students were about, cycling ...

World news

los angeles catholic actor recalls being fired for refusing sex scenes catholic actor neal mcdonough has described being fired from the tele...

Cardinal Wuerl will not celebrate Mass for Life

cardinal donald wuerl will not celebrate the january 18 mass for life, to be held at a youth rally before the annual march for life. wuerl w...

Christine Rousselle & CNA

Poll: 75 per cent of Americans want 'substantial' abortion limits

an annual us poll has found that 75 percent of respondents want "substantial" restrictions on abortion access even as more than half of resp...

Catholic News Service

How our college is helping students attend the March for Life

this week i will leave work and home behind and head to washington, d.c., to take part in a public demonstration against the greatest human ...

Fr Sean O. Sheridan

What pro-life Ireland can learn from pro-life America

with the dawn of legal abortion in ireland, the pro-life movement in the country is beginning a fight that their u.s. counterparts have been...

Shutdown won't deter crowds from marching for life

neither snow nor sleet - nor a partial government shutdown - will keep pro-lifers away from washington, dc for the march for life on january...

Across the US, organizers prepare for pro-life marches

thousands of pro-life advocates will rally this month in major cities throughout the country, marking the anniversary of the 1973 roe v. wad...

The joy of a Christmastide wedding

the celebration of a christmastide wedding was a really beautiful way to begin the new year. what a powerful expression of hope a marriage i...

Fr Dominic Allain

The Word this week

the baptism of the lord is 42:1-4 & 6-7; acts 10:34-38; lk 3:15-16 & 21-22 (year c) "now, while jesus after his own baptism was at p...

Bishop David McGough

How a shy poet became a Victorian muse

today we know christina rossetti for two well-loved carols, in the bleak midwinter and love came down at christmas. in her lifetime (1830-18...

David V Barrett

Japan shows us the worrying consequences of falling birth rates

this november the bbc reported on a dramatic study, published by the lancet, which told us that falls in the fertility rate of nearly half o...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

How a populist party has divided the Spanish bishops

when a party widely seen as far-right entered one of spain’s regional parliaments last month, it posed a dilemma for the catholic church dur...

Jonathan Luxmoore

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