Is there a deeper existential crisis which social media is making worse, asks David Quinn Ireland is supposed to be the most liberated it has ever been, and yet at the same time we seem to witnessing a surge in mental health problems among young people, especially adolescent girls, and not just in Ireland, but…
Dennis Coday A couple of weeks before my three sons left for college, I took each to dinner. They chose the restaurant, reflecting their personalities: a Thai place, a steak house, a premium burger grill. I picked up the tab, but I wasn’t there for dinner. I wanted to talk. I gave each a copy…
Carlos Medina, the husband of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell’s housekeeper, has admitted to murdering the bishop, the Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has said. “He admitted that he had done the killing and we believe we recovered the weapon that they were using, and we have other evidence from the bed, certain…
Parishes in the diocese of Killaloe are being consulted on plans to cut the number of parishes from 58 to 15. In meetings held in February and March, two plans for the future of the diocese are being presented to parishes for consideration. Fr Albert McDonnell, the diocese’s chancellor, told the parishes that “radical” structural…
If there’s one, unavoidable reality in our world it’s that of suffering. No matter how you try to buffer or shore up your existence, suffering will manifest itself one way or another. The only way to avoid it would be to neither love nor feel – but would such a life be any different from…
The Book of the Skelligs, edited by John Crowley and John Sheehan, photography by Valerie O’Sullivan (Cork University Press, €49/£43.90) The Great Lighthouses of Ireland, by David Hare (Gill Books, €27.99/£24.99) The filming in the recent past of two episodes of the continuing Star Wars franchise has transformed the world-wide perception of the…
The three Abrahamic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — now share a common place to worship in the predominantly Muslim United Arab Emirates with the opening of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. Such was the dream of Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb, who in 2019 signed a historic pledge calling…
Three leaders of NATO member states – and, as it happens, three Roman Catholic laity deeply involved in politics – all issued stirring defences of Ukraine this week, as the one-year anniversary of its war with Russia approached. US President Joe Biden delivered a forceful speech in Warsaw February 21 in which he vowed that…
Walking the byways and valleys where St Patrick first ministered is a unique way to re-discover his greatness, writes Michael Kelly Far from the green beer, parades and novelty costumes, if one wants to get to know the real St Patrick there are few better ways to so do than to travel to where he…
Several weeks ago my older brother George died. His death was somewhat of a shock since he had been in relatively good health until a week before he died. His story is worth telling. No community, Mircea Eliade once said, should botch its deaths. Although highly intelligent and motivated, George never got the chance for…
David Quinn
Ruadhán Jones
Peter Costello
John L. Allen Jr.
Michael Kelly
Fr Ronald Rolheiser