This is a strange time and a strange situation. The sentiment is indisputably true, but only in some respects. In fact, in the most important respect it is false. Rather than living in an abnormal time we are living in a time where normality has been amplified to the point whereby we cannot easily escape […]
Last year Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman accused of blasphemy against Islam, arrived to make a new life in Canada with her family. After being convicted and sentenced to death, she had languished in jail for ten years. Her lawyers received death threats. But Asia Bibi is far from being the only Pakistani Christian […]
This Easter may have been a particularly strange and muted one for Christians, with church doors closed and digital media providing a poor substitute in its place, but the significance of the event remains the same: the Son of God rises from the dead in glory, giving us a chance to live with Him eternally.
St Patrick is now one of the world’s best known Catholic figures but the earliest known celebration of the saint is believed to have been held on March 17, 1631, marking the anniversary of his death in the 5th century. In that year, bubonic plague raged across parts of Europe, especially impacting Italy where the epidemic […]
Christian persecution is all too real for the victims…
Further advice of the Irish Bishops in response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus The instructions, which will remain in place until at least March 29th and possibly longer, call for the cancellation of all non-essential pastoral gatherings and meetings, such as religious seminars and retreats. It also says that all confirmations are to be postponed until […]
The play’s author and director, LGBT activist Falk Richter, had manipulated the quote from a speech Kuby delivered in 2014, making it appear that she supported a totalitarian state.
Is Jason Evert being censored for having Catholic views – and is this a new form of acceptable bigotry? BEN SCALLAN takes a look at what’s happening regarding this seemingly-manufactured controversy.
Panti Bliss and his friend Rosita Sweetman are auctioning off statues depicting Mary as a feminist goddess, something I’m sure Mary would dispute given her self-identification as the “handmaid of the Lord”
“History is written by the winners” is a trite adage which was probably first circulated by some losers. Ever since, it has been used to cast a shadow of doubt over every account of struggles between human beings of which history purports to tell us. Searching through our past is a sacred pursuit. It is […]
The faith is booming as fast as the domestic economy, and the young outnumber older people in the pews. On a dark, bitterly cold night in Reykjavik this winter, worshippers were scattered in pews for evening Mass at the Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King, an eye-catching local landmark in the western section of Iceland’s […]
Parents are fighting back against attempts to force a Catholic ethos out of schools – and are asking Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to stand up for Catholic families.