A new opinion poll conducted by Amarach Research on behalf of The Iona Institute has found that 91% of respondents believe that when a child is being placed for adoption, it is best to try and place the child with a man and a woman. The second preference was a woman on her own, followed…

Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant has spoken of how his Catholic faith helped him through a particularly difficult part of his professional career. In 2003, a sexual assault case was brought against the Los Angeles Lakers player. A woman accused Bryant of raping her, but the case was dropped after she refused to testify. A civil…

Bishops call for spiritual importance not to be lost

Harry Fitzgerald, Anne Nagle, Michael Dovel, Hannah Best and Warwick De Silva at the Pure in Heart stand in the Divine Mercy Conference last weekend in Dublin’s RDS. See Page 8. Photo: John Mc Elroy  

State body accused of ‘misleading’ on debate