“The New Mass is bad, it is evil.” Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) once again denounces Vatican II and its tenets during an address in the United States.   “I hope to sign the peace agreement with Israel with this pen.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking of the pen…

Sunday service plan ‘solid and sensible’

Bishops lack confidence in dealing with media

Nuncio denied access to arrested cleric

The Church of Ireland has become embroiled in a major internal row following allegations of sectarianism from one of its leading prelates. Last week, as he addressed annual diocesan synods of his Church, Archbishop Michael Jackson of Dublin related his own “bitter experience” of sectarianism within his Church, stressing that “sectarianism is alive” in the…

A financial scandal in Germany has shocked the country’s faithful, writes Paul Keenan

United States – A school in Jackson City, Ohio, is facing a massive legal bill after two rights groups took a successful legal action forcing the school to remove a picture of Jesus that had hung in the building for 60 years. Both the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and the FFRF (Freedom From Religion…

RTÉ broadcaster Marty Whelan has spoken of the strength he gained from his faith following the recent death of his mother. Speaking on the last episode of Beyond Belief for this season, to be broadcast on RTÉ 1 next Monday night, Whelan says: “I am a believer, absolutely. I have a great faith in God.”…

Every day at 11 o’clock outside Gangjeong village on the spectacular coastline of Jeju island, a long line of cement trucks, serving the construction site for a military naval base, grinds to a halt.  For the next hour none will enter or leave the compound. Outside the six-metre high metal fence, their way is blocked…

India – Protests have been held against a newly erected statue of the Virgin Mary which portrays her in local garb. Set in place in May by members of a church in Singhpur village, Jharkhand, the guise of the statue was originally intended to honour local traditions but has instead drawn the anger of devotees…