Catholic woman accuses Church of discrimination over disabled child
Authors
Priest describes moment cruise ship ran aground
Chaplain Fr Mallena, 70, prayed in the chapel and then rushed to save the Holy Eucharist and crew members’ valuables
Bishop asks for hour of Confession every week in Lent
Bishop of Lancaster says every church in the diocese will be open for Confession on Wednesday evenings
Visionary who reported eight apparitions of Mary dies aged 90
Mariette Beco had the visions in 1933 in the small town of Banneux in Belgium
MP takes on Government over same-sex regulations
Edward Leigh is seeking to annul regulations which would lift the ban on civil ceremonies being conducted in places of worship
Vatican cardinal urges priests to spice up ‘dull, irrelevant’ sermons
Cardinal Ravasi says priests should use dramatic stories and imagery from the Bible to add colour to their homilies
Ealing Abbey to hand over control of school
Benedictines will no longer run school in west London following allegations of clerical sex abuse said to have occurred over 20 years
England to welcome the heart of Curé d’Ars
The heart of the patron saint of priests, St John Vianney, will be venerated in the Diocese of Shrewsbury next summer








Lord Falconer’s safeguards will not make assisted suicide any safer
His commission ignores the evidence from Oregon and puts all its faith in the idea of a long-standing family doctor