John Loughlin, Author at Catholic Herald

John Loughlin

February 25, 2016

Many religious orders in the West are declining and ageing, but there’s actually plenty of good news as well

February 25, 2016

Those of us who entered religious life just after Vatican II will probably remember it in the words of Wordsworth after the French Revolution: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”. Those were exciting years. In February 1968, aged 19, I entered an Irish Cistercian monastery. It was just three years after the

Should Catholics vote for Europe?

January 07, 2016

When John Paul II addressed the European Parliament in 1988, Ian Paisley denounced him as “the Antichrist” before being ejected from the chamber by his fellow MEPs. The Protestant firebrand was denouncing not just the Pope but also the relationship between the European Community and the Catholic Church. He saw a “Popish plot” undermining Protestantism

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