Adoration is prayer that prolongs the celebration and Eucharistic communion and in which the soul continues to be nourished: it is nourished with love, truth, peace; it is nourished with hope, because the One before whom we pro...
Spiritual guidance is not exactly a household term of the twenty-first century. Nor is it that familiar among Catholics, forty years after the second Vatican Council made the ‘universal call to holiness’ a keystone of its t...
At the very heart of freedom is freedom of religion – and at the very heart of religious freedom is freedom of conscience. The Irish Government has just published a piece of draft legislation which places a time bomb in this...
In his letter to the Christians of Ephesus St Paul urges the faithful not to be like children ‘tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles...
“Excluding any known wishes of the patient or family to the contrary, a decision to preserve the life of a patient in a state of permanent unconsciousness based on respect for life itself is morally no more sound than a decis...