Catholic Church

The experience of preparing candidates for Confirmation highlights how easily policies and procedures can displace pastoral judgement and distort the Church’s mission

Patrick Neve

Benedictine monks have challenged plans to remake parts of the former Valle de los Caídos amid claims of ecclesiastical consent

The Catholic Herald

Pope Leo is right to insist that morality is wider than sex alone, but that truth should not lead Catholics to minimise the profound social and spiritual damage of sexual sin

Anthony McCarthy

In this sermon on St John’s Gospel, St Augustine reflects on Christ as the door of the sheepfold and the true shepherd whose voice the faithful must learn to hear

St Augustine of Hippo

Without formally undoing Fiducia Supplicans, Pope Leo XIV appears to have drawn tighter limits around its interpretation and pastoral use

James Bradbury

The Church teaches the resurrection of the body, yet its meaning is often left unexplored in practical terms

Fr Gavan Jennings

A year-long pilot in three parish partnerships will test a new approach to parish funding as Dublin continues its wider programme of reform

The Catholic Herald

Catholic teaching on immigration is often reduced to a single imperative, but the tradition also affirms the duty of states to safeguard the common good

Luke Collins

A vows ceremony in Argentina has highlighted both new vocations and four decades of presence for the Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X

The Catholic Herald

Cardinal Reinhard Marx has instructed clergy in Munich to follow a new pastoral framework for blessing same-sex couples

Thomas Colsy