Politics

The experience of preparing candidates for Confirmation highlights how easily policies and procedures can displace pastoral judgement and distort the Church’s mission

Patrick Neve

As demonstrations multiply across Ireland and the West, a Catholic perspective points to a crisis of meaning beneath the surface of public anger

Ruadhan Jones

Catholic teaching on immigration is often reduced to a single imperative, but the tradition also affirms the duty of states to safeguard the common good

Luke Collins

How the alliance between large corporations and the regulatory state risks long-term economic stagnation and social peril

Declan J. Ganley

A new Bolloré-backed think tank is attracting attention in France as arguments over immigration, spending and culture gather pace before 2027

Thomas Colsy

A federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has renewed scrutiny of its finances, methods and influence on official assessments of traditionalist Catholics

Thomas Colsy

The growing mistrust between men and women is not only a social phenomenon but a spiritual one, and Catholics should resist answering it with either blame or despair

Delphine Chui

As British thinkers reach for Gaullist inspiration, Lola Salem questions whether a borrowed myth can restore a nation increasingly unsure of its own story and inheritance

Lola Salem

Survey data suggests the theological profile of newly ordained Catholic priests has shifted decisively in a conservative direction

Thomas Colsy

The senior bishop said Catholics should respond to threats to Europe’s Christian heritage with a movement to “save Europe”

Thomas Colsy