The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call Him Emmanuel, a name which means ‘God is with us’. In the final week of Advent the Church naturally focuses on the figure of ...

Pope Francis felt “caged” when the pandemic lockdowns began, interrupting what had been slated for him to be, among other things, a banner travel year. “But then,” he said, “I calmed ...

In his preface, Trower wrote that “In a sense, the sole subject of this book is the revelation of God: the efforts of its guardians to make it bear fruit in the present, and its vicissitudes at ...

The scandal of elected officials – such as President Biden – who take Communion yet promote views at odds with the Catholic Church must be countered, says Fr Gerald E Murray ...

Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed almost 55,000 Christians in the last 14 years, a new report has said. Since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, a total of 52,250 Christians have been ...

Tombs encourage meditation on eternity. Nursing homes feel like groaning waystations to the grave. Which may be why so many will let the old people die.

The congregation stay in their cars during Mass and hear Mass through their radios via closed-circuit transmission. (A PA system, they decided, would not help community relations.) Communion is ...

Godda’s rolling hills were covered in forest until the late 1980s, when coal was discovered there. Still rural and remote, the district has coal mines, rice paddies and wheat fields, darted with ...

Solemnity of the Holy Trinity Exodus 34: 4-6 & 8-9; 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13; John 3: 16-18 “Moses called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed ‘Lord, Lord, a God ...

The feeding of the 5,000 notwithstanding, the founder of Christianity never seemed all that enamoured with large-scale public worship. “ ...

Police have labelled sectarian graffiti found on a Catholic church in Northern Ireland as a hate crime. They are investigating accordingly.

Nicaragua’s Radio Maria broadcasting station faces closure after its legal status was revoked by the country’s dictatorial regime. On 9 July, the administration of President Daniel Ortega ...