Based on a recent survey, the majority of self-described Catholics hold views incompatible with RC teaching.

I have an apology to make. This year, for the first time, I didn't get around to writing the annual Good Friday blasphemous post and for this I'm truly sorry. [...]

Poor old Cardinal Seán Brady, the wounded healer, is having a Bishop Brennan moment after it emerged that one of his priests showed a series of gay porn images to [...]

The Pope went to Cuba and denounced what he called the  fanaticism that tries to impose its truth on others. Strangely, I'm in agreement with Ratzo on that one.  Nobody [...]

This is about a mentally-disturbed man who started a religious cult based on random irrational beliefs and who gathered a huge  following of superstitious young people.  No.  I don't mean [...]

Go to this, people.  Go to this.  Go.  Go to this. You must go to this. Just do it. Go.  Knock, Co Mayo.  7th April. That is all.     [...]

Did you ever hear of cardinal Keith O'Brien, a Scottish cardinal and Archbishop of Edinburgh?  No.  Neither did I until the silly old bugger started ranting against legalising gay marriage [...]

Ah, what a sweet and painful thing it is to have your heart stolen away, especially if it happens 800 years after you're dead. That's exactly what happened to poor Lawrence O'Toole, [...]

Mr Bock asked that I might type a few words on Protestant 'ethos'. Having spent most of my life as a Church of Ireland clergyman, it should be something that [...]

Did you ever see such a load of pietistic old bullshit as these people walking around with a smudge of dirt on their faces?  Why don't they clean themselves up [...]