Articles relevant to aspects of religious faith, in particular Catholic Christianity.
In a sermon delivered at the special pilgrimage held on Sunday, September 2, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Papal Visit to Scotland, Archbishop Mario Conti urged Scots Catholics to stay loyal to their faith in the face of increasing pressures from soread more
Pope Benedict XVI spoke of the crisis of the West as a “crisis of truth” in his holiy at a Mass in the pilgrimage shrine of Mariazell, in Austria on 8th Septmber 2007. The Holy Father began his homily by speaking about the purpose of pilgriread more
ZENIT provides this translation of a commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Amos 6:1, 4-7; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31)* * * A Rich Man who Dressed in read more
Speaking to members of an international theological commission on 5 October 2007, , Pope Benedict XVI indicated that the doctrine on natural law “achieves two essential aims: on the one hand, it makes it clear that the ethical content of Christian fread more
The Dictatorship of Relativismby Cardinal George Pell Relativism is powerful in Western life, evidenced in many areas from the decline in the study of history and English literature, through to the triumph of subjective values and conscience over moral trread more
Marriage still the best way to play happy, healthy families, by Polly Curtis, Guardian, Friday October 5, 2007 Children whose parents live together but are not married get worse results at school, leave education earlier and have a higher risk of developiread more
The sexual revolution promised to give people greater freedom and joy in their sex lives; but has resulted in record levels of sexually transmitted diseases, the legitimization and spread of pornography, greater hostility between the sexes, and cread more
CHRISTOPHER WEST writes: The twentieth century witnessed significant developments in the Church’s theology of marriage, beginning with Pope Pius XI’s 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii, passing through the Second Vatican Council and Pope Paul VI&#read more
In our secularist society there is a popular, but erroneous notion of what it means to follow one’s conscience, often reduced to the idea, “if it feels right, how can it be wrong?” Our conscience is a personal interior encounter with Godread more
Coming in the week that the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, talked about the Bible as foundational to our national culture, journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves chaired a Theos debate on citizenship. The event followed on from the publication of a read more
