The breakdown in trust in the Catholic Church, and the crisis which has accompanied it, is due in the first place to the scandal of clerical child sexual abuse and its even more scandalous mishandling by Church authorities. However, as Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has stated on so many occasions, the abuse issue has opened peoples’ eyes ‘to a much deeper crisis....

Two apostles who denied Christ

The Gospel for today treats the two Apostles who denied Christ. One, of course was Judas Iscariot who swiftly left the Last Supper room to do his dastardly deed and the other, of course, was Simon Peter, who...