Catholic Church

St Paul can help us tackle the curse of opioid addiction

i first learned about the opioid affliction in america on reading jd vance’s marvellous memoir hillbilly elegy – his story about growing up ...
Mary Kenny

How to survive a secular workplace

one of the alarming effects of living in a society less and less beholden to traditional christian morality is that many catholics find them...
William Newton

Cardinal Zen: What the Church is risking in its dialogue with China

unfortunately, when someone in the vatican talks about the church’s “soft power”, they still mean it in a political (worldly) sense. the gen...
Cardinal Joseph Zen

Will the abuse summit be a turning point for the Church?

the vatican’s clerical abuse summit was many things at the same time, some of them contradictory. the summit was the sixth major initiative ...
Fr Raymond de Souza

We have a big new home, but there's a reason it feels so empty

i almost jumped out of my skin on saturday morning. i had arrived at the hairdressers’ early and nipped to the loo before my appointment. i ...
Madeleine Teahan

The row over Franco's body exposes divisions in the Church

controversial plans by spain’s governing socialists to rebury general francisco franco will not be opposed by the vatican, which has now ins...
Jonathan Luxmoore

What Catholics can learn from Ethiopia's Pentecostal PM

at the end of last month, pope francis welcomed africa’s most-watched young leader to the vatican. abiy ahmed, prime minister of ethiopia, a...
Fr Alistair Jones, OP

It's not easy being Catholic in the art world today. A new group wants to change that

"beauty can cut across a thousand arguments, it can speak directly to the heart, it can be persuasive in many mysterious ways.” so said gabr...
Clare McCarthy

After Newman, could more English saints come marching in?

fascinating details of the second healing miracle at the intercession of blessed john henry newman emerged publicly for the first time last ...
Simon Caldwell

The trouble with lists of 'credibly accused' priests

frédéric martel’s new book, inside the closet of the vatican, was supposed to expose a “velvet mafia” calling the shots in the eternal city....
Michael Warren Davis