Catholic Church

Maynooth Community Church is among those bucking the trend of decline in church membership, boosting its congregation with people of faith from overseas

Rite & Reason: Going to church, attending Mass or engaging with the Catholic Church in any meaningful way has always felt, to me, like acting

While being young and female is still no picnic, young men are struggling in multiple ways

At 85, the long-time social campaigner says there’s no such thing as a typical homeless person: ‘every one of them is different, all have their own story, their own background’

Faith used to be a set menu with very limited choices. Perhaps to survive, and to give people what they need, it needs to become a buffet

Vatican commission stresses ‘the importance of compensation for victims/survivors, as a concrete commitment to their healing journey’

Proposals recommend allowing assisted dying in restricted circumstances

There was ‘no effort made to deal with perpetrators’ Dermot Farrell tells US Catholic TV network

Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan: The writer and TV star on having a one child, needing her mum and à la carte Catholicism

Small Things Like These misses an essential truth about Catholic Ireland

A deeply disturbing and important book which will interest and concern anyone who believes in that blessed trinity of modern democracy – openness, transparency and accountability

Traditionally, the only non-bishops with voting rights were 10 members of male religious orders but Pope Francis has changed that to five men and women religious

Survivors of physical abuse over decades in Irish schools want an apology for what they suffered at the hands of teachers

At a time when school divestment should be ramping up, it seems like boards of management are digging their heels in

Murray resigned in light of Murphy commission report on handling of child sex abuse allegations in Dublin archdiocese from 1975 to 2004

Critics say a requirement to hold a religious certificate in most national schools means many new teachers have to uphold something they don’t believe

Rite & Reason: This month, 368 delegates from around the world are gathering in Rome for the second session of the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality

We have a windfall – but the golden apples seem to have fallen on our heads. Our governing culture has lost its great get-out clause: ‘If only we had the money…'

The Catholic Church cannot and should not attempt to compete with a spirituality which is essentially whatever a couple wants it to b

Rite & Reason: Gospel values differ from economic values. In Luke’s Gospel it is said that anyone with two tunics should give one away