Blasphemy: we know the definition  profaning the sacred  but there seems to be little consensus about when exactly the sacred […]

Archbishop Denis Hurley would have approved of a pilgrimage to Robben Island in his honour taking on a profoundly ecumenical

This is the full text of the address by Southern Cross editor Günther Simmermacher at the launch of Paddy Kearney’s

Saturday morning, and my cellphone rings. On the other side is an amicable fellow, effusively informing me of the privilege

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A diocese in Ireland has banned Céline Dion’s music from funerals, provoking much ire among potentially bereaved Catholics. The decision

Before I took a wrong turn and stumbled into journalism, I worked for some years in the hotel trade as