Catholic Church

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

Lock of Carlo Acutis’s hair, in black box, brought to event as part of drive to attract more people to religious life

Veteran broadcaster Vincent Browne says’ the most persistent person in holding the Catholic Church to account was Patsy McGarry’

Alone among faith schools, Catholic schools are prevented from prioritising children from families committed to their ethos. The legislation is up for review

Diarmaid MacCulloch’s ambitious book looks at celibacy, marriage, homosexuality and trans issues from the perspective that there is no single consistent view of these in the Bible, Patsy McGarry writes

Church has not ‘come to terms with what was done to thousands upon thousands of innocent and vulnerable people’, says Dermot Farrell

Plus: Irish Catholic podcast believes the pope is a very naughty boy; JP McManus’s road woes; and Ciaran Mullooly’s new adviser in Brussels

New group taking part in new Propaedeutic Programme at several locations across Europe

Role of church in education must change

There are so many practical considerations to choosing a school that go beyond religious ethos

Catholic Church’s influence on Irish life is waning, yet only Israel spends more time on religious education at primary level

Figure significant in context of Government wanting congregations to contribute to compensating those affected by abuse as Department of Education indicates work on redress scheme will take time

Intermezzo author reflects on Joyce, how Christianity has shaped her thinking, and her dislike of the limelight

Pontiff (87) says not welcoming migrants is a ‘grave’ sin and both candidates are ‘against life’

Many Irish Catholics are drawn to the disruptive energies of Trumpism as they engage in what they see as a ‘spiritual war’ against liberalism

Holy See accepts importance of scoping inquiry report into extent of abuse

Some 88 per cent of primary schools are Catholic while just over 5 per cent are multidenominational

Book shows that even as Ireland has changed, its biggest problems remain ‘deep-rooted and historical’

The scoping inquiry report into wide-ranging abuse in Irish schools was published on Tuesday. It has prompted another former student to tell his story

Radio: The Hard Shoulder and Liveline hear harrowing stories from former pupils while the Leinster House bike shed continues to exercise listeners

Politician faces backlash but bishop warns against ‘censorship’

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris says force will investigate if abusers were working together

In the News podcast

Bernadette Soubirous is said to have seen the Virgin Mary 18 times in 1858

Rite & Reason: If our personal potential is not realised on earth surely it doesn’t disappear at death but becomes realisable in our next level of existence

Breakthrough follows vote by Geraldines P Moran GAA members ‘comprehensively’ backing million euro purchase of five-acre site

Television: Documentary chronicles the evil of the homes while respecting the victims by letting eyewitnesses speak for themselves

In an extract from his new book, the former Irish Times Religious Affairs Correspondent Patsy McGarry recounts the story of a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by notorious former priest Tony Walsh

I was sanctioned for speaking in favour of female priests and changing the church’s teaching on sexuality. I remain suspended 12 years on

Woman secretly disclosed 1960s relationship with cleric in London in perceived attempt to thwart his return to public ministry decades later

Geraldines P Moran GAA Club has said it is to pay €1 million for the five-acre Cornelscourt, south Dublin site at the centre of tensions

Rugby club that shares splaying facilities has objected to agreement for site purchase from Catholic church

Co Monaghan-born cleric died suddenly earlier this month in Brussels

Negotiator Sheila Nunan ‘will continue her work to its conclusion’, Department of Equality says

McGarry is notably fair to all sides, despite him often being perceived by many insiders as a liberal crusader intent on damaging the Catholic Church

German cleric appointed papal nuncio to the Baltic countries after period in wilderness following publication of controversial memoir

Letter at Masses in Foxrock parish says rugby club has ‘clearly shown that they have no interest in engaging with the parish’