In a strange way, this crisis could act as a moment of grace as well as of suffering, writes David Quinn With public Masses suspended, we find ourselves in unprecedented times. How many previously regular Massgoers will revert to their pre-crisis levels of attendance? That’s only one of the questions to be considered in…
The Lord provides us with the means to pass through the challenges that life provides, if we are willing to listen, writes David Quinn “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” These…
MIC is there to inform on issues like this, David Quinn Mary Immaculate College in Limerick is one of the few Catholic teacher training colleges in the country. Given that more than 90%of primary schools in Ireland are still Catholic, and about 70% of secondary schools are also in this category, these colleges are…
How should the Catholic Church respond when a pandemic breaks out? What is the correct pastoral response? What kind of pastoral response best fits with medical best practice? Are priests generally good at a time like this? What should we as individual Christians do? It’s hard to know at this stage whether ordinary people have…
The world is better for their presence over the years, writes David Quinn The record of the nuns is under attack again. The latest accusation is one of racism against children of ‘mixed race’ who found themselves in Mother and Baby homes and other Church-run institutions. The last Mother and Baby home closed down several…
Amazonian exhortation points towards Pope’s real aim, writes David Quinn When Humanae Vitae was issued in 1968 by Pope Paul VI, it was greeted with dismay and anger by many people, including practicing Catholics, who expected the Church to relax its previous prohibition against the use of artificial means of birth control by Catholics.…
The concerns of Catholics were invisible in the election because Catholics made themselves invisible, writes David Quinn In the run up to the general election, there were a handful of statements from bishops such as Eamon Martin, Kevin Doran and Alan McGuckian but for the most part the Church kept as low a profile as…
Catholics must vote as Catholics on election day, writes David Quinn Election time again, and if you’re pro-life it’s a very strange one because it is the first since the May 2018 abortion referendum. In previous campaigns, the focus of the pro-life movement was to support candidates and parties who were pro-life, or at…
No-one can pretend that Ireland is not becoming a more dangerous place, writes David Quinn The growing savagery of violence that is taking place between drug gangs here in Ireland has shocked a public already exposed to seemingly endless murderous incidents between rival gangs fighting turf wars and ordering revenge killings. Ireland has a long…
At the heart of every institution there are frail and flawed human beings, writes David Quinn You’ve probably seen the Netflix series, The Crown, which is a semi-fictionalised drama about Britain’s royal family. It covers the reign of Elizabeth II and follows her from the time she is a young woman and will end…