Cardinal John Wright News Today

On her way to school, Clodagh Finn used to pass by the former home of Alice Curtayne. Now, Clodagh wishes she had been aware back then of the journalist and international speaker

Which American has wielded the most actual power in the Vatican at his or her peak, regardless of whether you agree with how they used it?

St. James Episcopal Church in Austin will celebrate a jazz Mass on Nov. 13 as part of a weekend of jazz.

If ever a story provided a strange snapshot of the Gubu Ireland before referenda and social change brought us kicking and screaming into the modern world, it is surely that of Dr Andrew Rynne. In the 70s, the media cast the pioneering vasectomy doctor as a kind of medical renegade, as he helped scores of Irish men avoid endless fatherhood. He prescribed the contraceptive pill to women before it was legal in Ireland. A priest called to his house and urged him to stop his work with vasectomies. H...