Europe

Was Irish bard Shane McGowan let down by his own funeral Mass and by his Church?

no one does death like the irish. so the saying goes. or so we tell ourselves. when a funeral cortege makes its way from the church to the g...
Dualta Roughneen

Changing the conclave? Whatever happens next is likely also to have happened before

rome – despite two separate denials of mounting intensity, speculation continues to make the rounds that pope francis has tasked a veteran i...
John L Allen

Bishop Kukah: optimism in 'complicated' Nigeria despite fears of increasing Islamization

yaoundè, cameroon – a leading nigerian prelate has said that the very structure of the state in africa’s most populous nation is “dysfunctio...
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Not a tame pilgrimage

julian kwasniewski explores the spiritual and physical experience of going on adventure pilgrimages. in the voyage of the dawn treader , the...
Julian Kwasniewski

Joy in Rome and Westminster as UK band joins up with Bethlehem singer for Christmas record

a song by a bethlehem resident made in connection with a london-based band has been praised by pope francis as christmas approaches. youstin...
Charles Collins

Piercing the darkness with light in profundity at Advent and Christmas

advent and christmas draw us into the darkness: advent to prepare us and christmas to pierce the darkness with love, before the tiny light o...
Gavin Ashenden

Another attack on womanhood - this time in Ireland

the mania in ireland for believing that everything that happened before yesterday was old, archaic, tainted with catholic values and therefo...
Laura Perrins

Shark attack!: The first fatal encounter in North America was recorded by a Jesuit priest

the first fatal encounter in north america was recorded by a jesuit priest, explain kent mountford and richard g fernicola . the year was 16...
Kent Mountford and Richard G Fernicola

Drinking to the glory of God with 'Monastic Order'

serenhedd james talks to brian scarffe, the founder of monastic order , about his project and his vision for its future. another day; anothe...
Serenhedd James

Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' manages the impressive feat of turning a 'great man' of history into an entirely uninteresting character

a sadly common feature of human beings is our ability to take something great and reduce it to something tawdry. think of the wonder of air ...
Anthony McCarthy