Catholic News

Ireland visitation to focus on abuse victims, says Vatican

High-level officials meet in Rome to prepare Apostolic Visitation

Threat to conscience rights thrown out by Council of Europe

Members roundly rejected a resolution to strip doctors of their rights to opt out of abortions

The Catholic Herald

Debate: Is the internet weakening the Catholic Church?

Is the blogosphere obscuring the truth, or helping to illuminate it?

The Catholic Herald

Miracles are the Kingdom of God breaking into our world

Twenty-eighth Sunday of the Year: 2 Kings 5:14-17; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17: 11-19

Bishop David McGough

Pope groupie meets Pope

On Catholic media and meeting the Holy Father

The French ecclesiastic who met a barbaric end

St Leger (October 2) was fatally drawn into the power struggles of Merovingian France

'How long, Lord, am I to cry for help while you will not listen?'

Twenty-seventh Sunday of the Year: Habakkuk 1: 2-3 & 2:2-4; 2 Timothy 1: 6-8 & 13-14; Luke 17: 5-19

Bishop David McGough

Christianity is the most persecuted religion, say European bishops

COMECE urges EU foreign ministry to set up a 'religion unit' to promote cause of religious freedom more effectively

Spain will arrange special means to obtain visas for World Youth Day 2011

Next year's World Youth Day will be the second time the event has been held in Spain

The Catholic Herald

Claims about MacKillop's excommunication are false, says postulator

Claim that Mary MacKillop was excommunicated for speaking out against an abusive priest is an invention, says Fr Gardiner