There is a marked revival of interest in religion among young people in Northern Ireland, a major new poll commissioned…
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The UK Supreme Court has delivered an important judgment on religious education in a Northern Ireland State primary school, ruling that the current way religion is taught amounts to ‘indoctrination’, and that the right to withdraw a child from RE...
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The latest Religious Freedom in the World Report from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reveals that almost two-thirds of humanity, about 5.4 billion people, live in places where serious violations of religious freedom religious, up to and including...
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At a press conference last week, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe was asked by Gript journalist, Ben Scallan, whether Ireland should adopt pro-natalist policies to raise our very low birth rate. The context was the launch of a major new report...
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People used to mainly inherit their religion, like their politics, from their parents. This is no longer the case and hasn’t been for a long time. Now people often have to acquire religion (and politics) for themselves. It is a...
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What are the signs of a great openness to religion among members of Gen Z? Stephen Bullivant, Professor of Theology and Sociology of Religion at St Mary’s University, Twickenham in London, looks at what the data have to say. He...
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At our recent youth conference, Bishop Niall Coll (pictured) addressed the topic, ‘The Crucial Choice Before Gen Z’. Citing St John Henry Newman, he said that there are “three Ds” needed for faith, namely ‘disposition’, ‘decision ‘and ‘difference’, that is,...
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The Catholic bishops’ conference of England and Wales recorded 5,432 baptisms of catechumens aged over seven years in 2024, the highest number in over a decade, as Mass attendance continued…
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On Saturday May 3, 2025, Maria Steen (pictured) delivered a talk called “Evangelium Vitae at 30 – Pope John Paul…
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