“Within the Church people often feel vulnerable and feel forced to hide behind the cloak of anonymity”, writes Editor Michael Kelly
Month: June 2016
One-third of Irish adults active in local church
Challenge of engaging young Catholics remains
More reader-friendly statistics and charts needed
Dear Editor, Compliments on your very informative feature on “Catholicism in England and Wales” (IC 02/06/2016). You won’t mind, I’m sure, if I suggest ways in which an article like this so heavily dependent on statistics could be made more reader-friendly in the future. The verbal and the visual are not brought together in any…
Europe and the centenaries of the Great Tragedies of 1916
With our recent concentration on the local events in Ireland in 1916 most Irish people have overlooked the centenary of some of the events in the Great War itself. The recent commemorations of both the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of Verdun, both to be counted with the first day of the Somme (a…
Meeting ourselves as we really are
The Republic photographed by Seamus Murphy (Allen Lane, €32.00)
Another example of contempt for impartiality
Abortion reigns as the main topic of media controversy with Ray D’Arcy playing a central figure in last week’s viewing, writes Brendan O’Regan
Mum’s the word in multi-layered modern comedy
Mother’s Day (12A)
Get busy pruning, feeding and mowing
“Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.” (J. Lubbock) Take time to enjoy your garden, but keep up the maintenance work. Keep…
Faith in the Family
People grieve differently – and that applies as much to children as it does to adults. I remember when we were young teens, two of my cousins experienced a bereavement. Their reactions were polar opposites. One was loud and angry in his grief. The other was silent and withdrawn. Neither could understand the other’s reaction…
The struggle to love our neighbour
“The most damaging idolatry is not the golden calf but enmity against the other.” The renowned anthropologist, Rene Girard, wrote that and its truth is not easily admitted. Most of us like to believe that we are mature and big-hearted and that we do love our neighbours and are free of enmity towards others. But…

Michael Kelly
Greg Daly

Peter Costello

Brendan O’Regan
Aubrey Malone
Paul Gargan
Bairbre Cahill
Fr Ronald Rolheiser