Faith is used and misused in America’s racial struggle, writes Paul Keenan

Teresa White, Becca Monaghan, Paula Freney and Catharina Ascough at the annual All Ireland Rally for Life which took place in Dublin on Saturday and according to organisers attracted a crowd of 30,000 people. 

Mercy and faith have shaped Latin American culture for centuries, Pope Francis said on arriving in Ecuador on the first day of his July 5-12 tour of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, insisting that the Gospel continues to hold the key to our contemporary challenges. Speaking after a 12-hour flight from Rome, the Pontiff took part…

Staff Reporter An unlikely row has broken out between pop star Katy Perry, the Archbishop of Los Angeles and a group of elderly nuns. The singer reportedly wanted to buy the Los Feliz villa that served as the convent for the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles. However, according to reports,…

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has expressed sympathy and support for the country’s armed forces after a series of jihadist attacks in north Sinai.  In an official statement, the Church said it supported the military’s struggle “against the forces of evil that threaten security in the region and in the world”, and invoked God’s help “to…

“The world of today still yearns for the Good News of Jesus Christ.”

Criticism of Cardinal George Pell’s record on abuse is “tremendously unfair”, according to his successor in Sydney, Archbishop Anthony Fisher.  Pointing out that the cardinal was the first Australian bishop to take real steps to tackle abuse, Dr Fisher speculated that a large part of Cardinal’s Pell’s problem is that for a long time he…

Pope Francis made a visit to Benedict XVI on Tuesday to wish him ‘happy holidays’ as the retired pontiff left for two weeks holiday at the pontifical summer residence of Castel Gandolfo in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Francis has decided not to use the residence since he has said he dislikes holidays.

One of the members of the Vatican Medjugorje Commission has condemned recent media reports claiming that Rome intended to reject as not supernatural the alleged visions associated with the Herzegovinan town. Italian media outlets had reported that the Vatican Commission had met on June 24 and decided to rule that the alleged visions, which have…

A report from a Government-appointed working group to identify improvements to the Direct Provision system for asylum-seekers and refugees has received a mixed response. The report from the Working Group on the Protection Process, which was released on Tuesday, proposes that new asylum seekers should have the right to work after nine months of seeking…