Catholic Church

Poll: majority want abortion limit lowered

a majority of britons want far greater restrictions on access to abortion, a new poll has revealed this week. the results of the survey, car...

Mexican priest stabbed while saying Mass

a priest has been stabbed at the altar while celebrating mass in mexico city’s metropolitan cathedral. fr miguel angel machorro was stabbed ...

Don’t use embryos for research, says Pope

pope francis has urged scientists not to take part in a “throwaway culture” by destroying human embryos in the search for a cure for hunting...

Benedict XVI breaks silence to praise cardinal

we should be grateful to pope francis for appointing cardinal robert sarah to guard the church’s liturgy, benedict xvi has said. in an after...

Cardinal Müller: euthanasia is toxic

the vatican’s doctrinal chief has told canadian catholics that “we shall prevail” in opposing legalised euthanasia. cardinal gerhard müller ...

A split decision on Medjugorje?

on a summer’s day in 1981, two teenagers in a bosnian village reported seeing an apparition of the virgin mary, dressed in startling white a...

Rome’s come a long way since Dickens

in 1845, charles dickens witnessed a public execution in rome. a man had been found guilty of beating a bavarian noblewoman to death with he...

Jonathan Wright

The debate that just won’t die

in his memoir the church and i , the catholic apologist frank sheed recalled his part in an unusual conversion story. a murderer on death ro...

From altar server to Hollywood actor

michael fassbender is remembering his days as an altar boy at prince of peace church in fossa, near killarney. “i was head altar boy, actual...

Gabrielle Donnelly

William Cash: Read between the lines in the manifestos

the three main party manifestos tell you surprisingly little about where the parties stand on issues of politics, conscience and faith – the...