Martin Flanagan’s school memoir describes bullying, male violence and abusive priests. But rather than a story of victimhood, it explores the grace and release of sport, finding hope amid darkness.
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Spirited, defiant and always at the mercy of her mental health issues, the Irish singer will be forever remembered for her pure, clear voice and willingness to speak out on injustice.
People are congregating in Missouri after news spread that the exhumed body of a nun had not decayed four years after her death. There is a long history to these claims.
The Vatican plans to set up an ‘observatory’ to investigate apparitions of the Virgin Mary. A scholar of global Christianity explains why this is a major shift in how apparitions are authenticated.
The voices of survivors are a valuable counterbalance to those who seek simplistic solutions to complex problems in child protection.
I met Father Bob Maguire as a young filmmaker in 1990. The words he spoke to me then still reverberate today.
This is a green light for creating the largest-ever compensation fund for sex abuse claims.
Loud Sky, at Newcastle’s The Lock-Up, brings together new commissions and community artworks to explore institutional abuse by the Catholic Church.
The Vatican has repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, a 500-year-old decree used to justify settler colonialism. Scholar Veldon Coburn explains this symbolic victory and what still needs to happen.
Supernatural horror film The Pope’s Exorcist fictionalises Amorth’s exorcism ministry, adding in a centuries-old Vatican cover up for good measure.
What will happen to this villa and its unique collection of 16th- and 17th-century ceiling paintings?
Pope Francis’ papacy is anchored on what he calls a “revolution of tenderness”.
The latest Australian census shows a decrease in affiliation with Pentecostal churches, despite the ‘boom’ narrative. Women seem to be leaving: gender inequality and abuses of power are having an impact.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
A specialist in Catholic liturgy and rituals explains that while several popes have been canonized, it is a long process that may take several years to examine and uncover any hidden flaws.
African Catholics are growing in number. They are also reinventing and reinterpreting Christianity.
Pell, often described as a conservative Catholic, was jailed for child sexual abuse in Australia in 2019 but maintained his innocence and was acquitted the following year.
Pope Benedict XVI led the Catholic Church at a crucial time and had to confront a growing sexual abuse scandal.
Catholics disagree over how to adapt the church’s doctrine and practices, especially marriage, to different cultures.
From the earliest years of Christianity, some people have been recognised as having lived exceptionally holy lives.
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