The Catholic Herald People of the Year 2012

Catholic Herald Person of 2012: Cardinal Dolan   The jolly, cherubic cardinal with the wide girth was born in 1950 in St Louis and entered ...

Concerning Savita's tragic death: 'abortion is not a cure for septicaemia' and the full details of her death are not known. But, certainly comparisons to other countries show the claim made by pro-abortion activists that Ireland is 'backward' on maternal health is at best a limited world-view and at worst a mendacious means of manipulating Ireland

"How then do we explain the sensationalist media coverage of her death?" The argument made in Verita Bella's video is that fol...

Bishop Buckley: "The child in the womb must enjoy the same rights as all other people, among which is the unassailable right of an innocent person to life."

In 1939, Bishop Buckley was born in Inchigeela, West Cork, a village that is near where I was born. When I was in secondary school, Bishop ...

My visit to the Vatican to interview the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Everyone who is Catholic must ask themselves if they are cherry-picking points from the Church’s teachings for the sake of supporting an ideology."

The scariest thing about visiting the office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was getting past the Swiss Guard. It was a ...

Pope appoints Kerryman Fr Billy as Magee's successor in the Cloyne Diocese

Is the structure of the Church in Ireland being re-built for the better?   Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Canon William Crean as the new b...