One Saturday morning, I resolved to help tidy my son’s bedroom – big mistake. Piled upon his bed I found: 12 ragged and much loved cuddly toys or ‘pets’ as he likes to call them, one toy samurai sword, three blankets, two odd socks, one cat shaped key chain, a bottle of water, one pocket…
Month: February 2015
Better for teens to be young, free and single
Maria ByrneA parent’s perspective
Time for new attitudes towards alcohol
Cathal BarryHealthy Living with Cathal Barry
Like My Fair Lady, but for slow learners
Aubrey MaloneKingsman: The Secret Service (16)
More one-sided debates on abortion
Brendan O’ReganAs an avid collector of ironies, I hit the jackpot last week. Liberal media commentators were horrified that Pope Francis didn’t see a problem with slapping children for corrective purposes, but actively argued for aborting more children by widening Irish abortion laws! The latest wave in this debate started Wednesday of last week with a…
Web continues to vibrate to Stephen Fry’s anti-God belief
Courtney McGrailFew topics have spurred as much debate among Christian circles online as Stephen Fry’s recent outburst against God on RTÉ’s Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne, in which he says that if he were suddenly confronted by God as a reality, he would hold him to account for the world’s suffering. Edinburgh-based Dominican Lawrence Lew…
The Church needs religious life
This year, there are two small but heartening signs of encouragement for religious life
If it’s religious, it must be Sunday
It’s understandable that so many religious programmes are concentrated on Sundays. Some may feel it puts religion in a media ghetto, but in a way it’s also showing sensitivity to the Lord’s Day. On last Sunday morning’s Sunday Sequence (BBC Radio Ulster), Audrey Carville presented a timely item on the morality of paying hostage takers: should…
Hypnotic fascination will lead to head-scratching
Patrick’s Day (15a)
Sharing between generations
Evan O’Brien explains how a student charity group supports the elderly in Cork