Life

Ireland's vocations crisis reflects lack of ‘initiative’ and ‘evasion of issue’ by Church

the irish catholic church was seen for generations as the jewel in the crown of the english-speaking clerical world. scores of parishes in g...
DeclanMcSweeney

The problem with Saint Brigid’s pagan makeover

saint brigid now has her own state-sanctioned bank holiday in ireland, which this year falls on monday, 5 february, following the saint's fe...
Laura Perrins

Religion, knowledge and liberty seen through the Michaela School prayer row

i almost certainly would have been expelled from the michaela community school within a week. like most of my so-called “boomer” generation,...
johnmillbank

Women continue to be reduced to their economic output by Conservative government

as the uk general election draws ever nearer, we can expect to see some desperate attempts from the conservative party to paint the last 14 ...
Portia Berry-Kilby

The terrible truth about 'assisted dying': Lessons from Canada and Australia

another big push to legalise “assisted dying” in the uk has been reinforced by celebrity endorsements,  hard cases and the testimonies ...
Simon Caldwell

Sunday Gospel reflection: Parsing the devil's use of 'us'

"what do you want with us, jesus of nazareth?" (mark 1:24) why does the demon in sunday’s gospel use the plural "us" rather than the singula...
Fr David Howell

Kentucky bishop suspends priests devoted to Traditional Latin Mass

new york – a small religious community dedicated to the traditional latin mass in the diocese of covington, kentucky, that once had aspirati...
John Lavenburg

German diocese under prominent progressive bishop sees no annual ordinations for first time in 200 years

the diocese under the tenure of the president of the german bishops’ conference and its s ynodaler weg – german synodal way – has ordained n...
Tom Colsy

EXCLUSIVE: Calls for 'urgent' inquiry into amendments to legalise late-term abortion in UK

the uk government is being called to launch an urgent inquiry after the medical director of one of the uk’s largest abortion providers repor...
The Catholic Herald

FEATURE: 'The Last Priests and Nuns in Ireland' – a missed opportunity to move beyond the same old tropes

i get a knot of anxiety in my stomach when i hear news of another documentary about religion or, rather, about catholicism in ireland. it is...
Dualta Roughneen