The Church should be a welcoming “counter-movement” in a society that can be violent, unforgiving and anxiety-driven, Archbishop Michael Neary has said. The Archbishop of Tuam also warned that faith cannot be about maintenance. Rather, it is about “welcoming home all sorts and conditions of people,” he said. Speaking from the summit of Croagh Patrick…

How is the Son of God man, the Catechism of the Catholic Church asks at a point. According to the Church, this is because ìhuman nature was assumed, not absorbedî, in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ's human soul,…