The figures published in the first annual abortion report bear out the fears of Irish pro-life advocates.

There has been widespread condemnation of the priest's rhetoric, and protests are being organised.

For some years now, equality between the sexes – or “genders” as we now often say – has been such a strongly held orthodoxy that few dare to challenge it. I am all for equality before the law for everyone, but I don’t believe “equality” should obscure the fact that there are fundamental differences between

Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli defied terror and tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa By Rachel Pieh Jones Plough Publishing House, 280pp, £18.99/$26 Hardly known in this country, Annalena Tonelli, born in Italy in 1943 and murdered by terrorists in Burama, Somaliland in 2003, is one of those heroic people who devote their lives

Msgr. Georg Ratzinger died in Bavaria at the age of 96 on July 1

Zen said that he had "no confidence" in religious freedom protections in the new security law.

Following a recommendation by the Amazon synod, a new “ecclesial conference” for the Amazon region has been created

The Church’s spiritual mission is no excuse for bad management, the cardinal said