This article, written by Phil Lawler, appears on the website CatholicCulture.org Most of the reporters writing about the papal visit are clearly surprised by this outcome, and more than a few are betraying their disappointment. A week ago the same reporteread more
This text was delivered by Michael McGrath, Director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service, at an event in St Joseph’s Boys’ School, Derry on the evening, Monday 24th January 2011 to launch Catholic Schools Week in Ireland. The theme of Catholiread more
This is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered on 7th February 2011 upon receiving in audience members of the Congregation for Catholic Education, gathered in their plenary assembly. Esteemed Cardinals, Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate anread more
A full version of an article written by UK Education Secretary Michael Gove can be found in The Catholic Herald of w/b 20th February 2011. Catholic schools can avoid “unsympathetic meddling” by secularists if they take up the Government’s offer of aread more
“Education, Education, Education”. We all remember Tony Blair’s famous mantra which proclaimed the three main priorities of his government in May 2007. As we approach the elections to the Scottish Parliament in May 2011, we can reflect on how faread more
This is an excerpt of an address given by Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday 2nd July 2011 to a group of pilgrims from the Italian Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti. It addreses the significance of the family’s reponsibility for Christaread more
In this artice, published in Thinking Faith, Jack Mahoney SJ explores the significance of this famous discourse and its place in the moral teaching of Jesus. The moral teaching of Jesus has inspired and challenged Christians and all men and women for centread more
Fr Jack Mahoney looks again at the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s Gospel, describing how the structure of the sermon can help us to understand what Jesus wanted to tell his disciples. What are we to make of the new righteousness, which ‘exceeds thatread more
Familiar as the words of the Sermon of the Mount may be, the standards that it sets for Christian living continue to pose a radical challenge to followers of Christ. Fr Jack Mahoney concludes his study of the sermon, asking what value we might find in hisread more
Pope Benedict XVI’s Homily at the World Youth Day 2011 Final Mass – Sunday 21 August 2011 Dear Young People,In this celebration of the Eucharist we have reached the high point of this World Youth Day. Seeing you here, gathered in such great nuread more
