An issue that refuses to hide its face is the continuing fall in the number of priests serving our parishes. We should be considering this question as a matter of some urgency if we are to maintain our present diocesan Read more
It took a little more than a day for Father Justin, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar posing as a priest, to be defrocked. Defrocking Justin After Catholic Answers, a site devoted to evangelising for Catholicism, introduced the character to answer Read more
Calls for hope in times like these can seem like toxic positivity — or like a slur. Urging hope seems to ignore charred bodies in a kibbutz and bombed refugee camps, to mock victims of hate crimes, to disregard the Read more
As global fertility rates continue to decline, even majority-Catholic and historically Catholic countries aren’t free from the demographic collapse. That collapse increasingly threatens to shrink the populations of countries below the necessary rate of replacement. Global fertility falling Global fertility Read more
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