The Synod of Bishops was an attempt to capture different viewpoints, writes Cathal Barry

The three-week-long Synod of Bishops on the Family has finally wrapped up its work with bishops voting on a final document which has been given to Pope Francis.  After much deliberation, a ten-man commission produced a final report of 94 paragraphs, which they endorsed unanimously.  The synod then voted on the document paragraph by paragraph,…

While much attention is focused on Communion for the divorced, the bigger news is a significant pastoral shift, writes Austen Ivereigh

The Synod on the Family has been of great value not despite its tensions and disagreements, but because of them, writes Fr Martin Browne OSB

Amnesty’s latest celebrity campaign is a crude piece of propaganda, writes David Quinn

The Church teaches that Baptism is the sacramental entry into the life of faith, writes Cathal Barry

There is no such thing as pure objectivity, a view that is free of all bias. Yet that’s the claim often made by non-religious, secular thinkers in debates about values and public policy. They argue that their views, unlike those who admit that their views are grounded in religious principles, are objective and free from…

All married couples will struggle, but a strong faith can be empowering, writes Andrew O’Connell

While we may not be able to change the past, we can learn from our mistakes, writes Dominic O’Reilly

The Buddhists have a little axiom that explains more about ourselves than we would like. They say that you can understand most of what’s wrong in the world and inside yourself by looking at a group-photo. Invariably you will look first at how you turned out before looking at whether or not this is a…