Mgr Keith Newton met Pope Benedict XVI last week in a private audience at the Vatican
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Maynooth seminary will not be closing, says president
Mgr Hugh Connolly says reports alleging that the seminary may close are ‘without foundation’
Sir Anthony Hopkins: I couldn’t be an atheist
The star of The Rite tells the Catholic Herald that being an atheist must be like living ‘in a closed cell with no windows’
Vatican praises Lancaster document on diaconate
Document issued by Bishop Michael Campbell says deacon is priest’s ‘closest collaborator’
Bishops give £70,000 to mental health projects
Bishops distribute money from Day for Life collections of 2008 and 2009
English and Welsh vocations rise to highest level in a decade
This year 56 men entered seminary in England and Wales
Papal visit inspires Catholic-Humanist discussions
London meeting follows ‘rowdy’ public debate
Archbishop appointed to implement US ordinariate
Archbishop Wuerl has been appointed to lead efforts to establish an Anglican Ordinariate in the US
Pope ‘could visit Ireland in 2012′
Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland deputy first minister, says he has ‘grounds’ to believe a visit may happen
Every parish to receive image and candle blessed by the Pope
Bishops’ conference to send out 3,000 images and candles as a legacy of the visit








Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Huw Twiston Davies