“Christians here in Ireland need to ask ourselves what we would do if we were in Syria”, writes David Quinn

The latest sitting was far from neutral, writes David Quinn

A 14-year old girl in the UK, dying of cancer, was awarded by court the right to have her body frozen after her death, so-called ‘cryogenic freezing’. The girl, who has since died, wants the possibility of being raised from the dead if science ever allows this, even if that is still hundreds of years…

Catholics faced a tough choice in the US election, writes David Quinn

People need strong emotional connections with others to flourish, writes David Quinn

How many Irish people today have heard of St Benedict of Nursia (Norcia)? Few enough I would say, and they won’t have been any the wiser if they watched the Six One News on RTÉ television last Sunday evening. The bulletin duly reported the earthquake in the central Italian town of Norcia, and it mentioned…

What did Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s words on family mean, wonders David Quinn

The presidential candidate is a symptom of a wider malaise, writes David Quinn

“eugenics has crept up… almost unnoticed and… society in an almost unbreakable lock grip” within a logic that is “absolutely terrifying” writes David Quinn

“Pope Francis takes a different view as to how Jesus’s teaching should be applied in very particular cases”, writes David Quinn