We can help culture by showing people just how much pain treating one another as disposable has caused, writes David Quinn Emily Ratajkowski is one of the most famous models in the world today. She shot to fame in 2013 when she appeared topless in a video for the hit song ‘Blurred Lines’ by Robin…
For many years, I have taken part in debates about the family. In all that time, I have focused on the importance of both mothers and fathers being closely involved in the raising of their children. It is why I have always argued for the importance of marriage, because marriage has evolved in practically all…
Left-wing pressure groups are lining up to push Ireland in an even more liberal direction, writes David Quinn For many years, various United Nations (UN) bodies exerted pressure on Ireland to abolish the Eighth Amendment. Moves are now on to cajole us into making our present already very liberal abortion law even more permissive. Ireland…
Networks set up to make life more interactive also operate in a more insidious way by harming your peace of mind, writes David Quinn In George Orwell’s 1984 it was ‘Big Brother’ who was constantly watching us. ‘Big Brother’ was the totalitarian state – it wanted to control every aspect of our lives, shaping our…
The threat posed by radical Islam is often brushed away, writes David Quinn Conservative politician, David Amess, who was stabbed to death last week in what appears to have been a terrorist attack, was one of the most prominent Catholic MPs in the House of Commons where he served for 38 years. He died aged…
France report as horrifying as what was uncovered in Ireland, writes David Quinn Has the Church underestimated the reality of evil in the world for the past 50 years? Jean-Marc Sauvé, a retired senior judge in France, believes so. He headed a commission established by the Church to investigate the scale of child abuse within…
If a woman plays the next Bond, Daniel Craig should be the next Miss Marple, writes David Quinn The latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die is out at last, after a long delay thanks to the pandemic. It was due to be launched just as Covid-19 sent us all into lockdown last spring,…
The pandemic has allowed people to reflect on what really matters to them in life, writes David Quinn The pandemic has impacted different groups in different ways. I am not referring to the direct effect of the disease itself, but of lockdown and other restrictions imposed to ensure Covid-19 did not go out of control.…
The target of halving carbon emissions in less than ten years will be enormously disruptive and expensive, writes David Quinn The Church is currently marking a month-long ‘Season of Creation’. It began on September 1, and ends on October 4. September 1 was the start date because Pope Francis has declared that day each year…
The world is a messy place and often the only realistic choices are between bad and even worse writes David Quinn Everyone remembers where they were on September 11, 2001. I was still the editor of this newspaper and had gone into a pub for lunch with some other staff and on the television set…