The synod has made the first bold steps towards welcome and healing, writes Austen Ivereigh

Our need to cut down someone else is an infallible sign of our own jealousy and bad self-image

Jesus scandalised the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners, writes Cathal Barry

Five times as many men as women are taking their own lives

Pope Paul VI will be remembered as a man who loved the Church

Sr Rebecca Conlon SSC describes her mission in Pakistan

It’s difficult to think of many philosophers articulating a publicly consumable Christian perspective on life’s meaning

Pope Francis is entirely convinced that diverse points of view, freely expressed, can produce real reform writes Austen Ivereigh

From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him. Because of certain acts of his expelling demons, forgiving sins, healing on the Sabbath day, his novel interpretation of the precepts of the Law regarding purity and his familiarity with tax collectors…

The Bible gives us sacred permission to feel the way we feel sometimes