WHILE many good and dedicated bishops and priests in the Philippines and elsewhere are examining their conscience about their responsibility to bring pedophile clergymen to justice, many more are not.

This week I’m writing about Discover What Your Name Means Day, which is celebrated on March 5th gives me an opportunity to geek out some more about languages and word origins and meanings. So, without ...

Those of you who come back every week to read this column might remember the time I wrote about the origins of common idioms and sayings. This week I’m writing about Discover What Your Name ...

A man who says he was abused by priests at a Jesuit-run boarding school in Alicante believes that there have been many similar cases that Now nearly two decades old, The Olive Press responds to ...

But in March 2023, the charismatic Orthodox priest in his forties saw his career come to an abrupt halt. His public criticism of the Moscow Patriarchate’s support for the Kremlin’s invasion of ...

The team behind the movie-version wanted to make a fun, positive and safe experience, recreating what used to be the “Saturday morning” cinema experience, but with a modern idiom using a ...

Regardless of its initial meaning, the idiom has been used in many other ways since Cicero popularized it 2,000 years ago. There was a sharpened sword above his head That hung there by the thinnest ...

A former Manchester United star-turned-priest says there are more similarities between playing football and monastic life than first meets the eye. Philip Mulryne, 47, came through United's ...

Two women who witnessed the murder of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win in Myanmar last week recounted how the priest “fearlessly confronted” the armed men who took his life. In a statement to ...

In a statement shared with ACI Africa on Sunday, February 23, the Local Ordinary of Yola Diocese announces with “a heavy heart and deep concern” the abduction of the two Catholic Priests that he says ...

What the government did not expect was resistance from within the community led by a Catholic priest, Fr John Morrison. Kate MacDonald, was a girl growing up in West Gerinish, South Uist ...

This is the single largest group of seminarians in diocesan history, and the formation of these potential future priests is made possible through CDA support. “Most people don’t realize ...