Speaker John Boehner extends invitation

‘Unprecedented’ vote scuppers funding

“I perceive it as an award also for my teachers because many of my teachers, they were priests, they spent many years in communist concentration camps, or prisons and uranium mines and they had very little possibility to write or publish and many died during communism. They inspired me morally and intellectually and I think…

Meeting follows publication of responses to the Vatican’s questionnaire on the family

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin described her as “a woman of courage”.

US Catholics are reeling, once again, over some old wounds and some new ones.  And this is happening at the same time that Pope Francis continues to command a media attention – US media foremost – the likes of which show business celebrities, international athletes, and political leaders can only dream about.  And it is…

Bishop Browne expressed his hope that the “seeds sown through the years” would “flourish afresh through the graduates of this course”.

Three months of captivity end safely

Trócaire has announced a massive funding boost from the UK government which could see at least an extra stg£1.65 million for the organisation’s work in some of the world’s poorest countries

The so-called ‘Francis effect’ has apparently failed to touch American Catholics, according to a major survey into attitudes stateside. While Pope Francis stands as a very popular Pontiff among American Catholics overall, a study undertaken by the Pew Research Centre in February as the first anniversary of his papacy approached reveals that his popularity rating…