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Cardinal Tagle sets out his vision for the Church

filipino cleric, cardinal luis antonio tagle, who was named by pope francis as his special envoy for the general conference of the federatio...

Pope warns seminarians of dangers of pornography

by hugh kerr the vatican has made known that pope francis recently gave a condemnation of online pornography to a collection of priests and ...

The Catholic Herald

Laypeople will need to step up if the Irish church declines any further

what are we to make of the condition of the irish clergy as seen in an analysis by the association of catholic priests in their annual meeti...

Gertrude Clarke

The virtuous origins of Oktoberfest

today oktoberfest is a raucous, if convivial, affair of which few know the origins, but it was born of the love of a righteous king for his ...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

On discipleship

october is not an especially exciting month liturgically: we have an uninterrupted run of ordinary sundays, with readings from chapters 17 t...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Review: 'My year with God' by Svend Brinkmann

my year with god is well-intentioned, but ultimately highlights the complacency at the heart of modern secular thinking, writes niall gooch ...

Why the Seal of Confession cannot be compromised

the suggestion by iicsa that the seal of confession is violable misunderstands its essence, writes fr richard whinder the independent inquir...

The Catholic Herald

Finding truthful witness in fictional saints

the saints from the great novels can help us grow in our faith, writes ken craycraft one of my daughters, margaret, recently finished sigrid...

Cardinal Kasper joins criticism of Synodal Path

german prelate cardinal walter kasper, the former president of the pontifical council for promoting christian unity, has called germany’s sy...

St John Paul II: a man for our times

on his feast day, we must invoke the aid of john paul ii for our church a nd our country, writes joanna bogle he was brought up by a single ...