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




It is now time to undo the injustice bishops are doing to too many priests, falsely accused of child abuse and now vindicated, but still torn from their priesthood
By Huw Twiston Davies