The Pope in Ireland Pope Francis is a Pope for a truly global Church, writes Prof. Eamonn Conway The World Meeting of Families coincides with news of shameful sex crimes by clergy against children and vulnerable adults in the USA in recent past decades. At first glance it might seem that little progress has…
Religion would be a second-class subject if new proposals take effect, writes Fr Eamonn Conway The latest proposal from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) will make it very difficult for patrons and boards of management of Catholic primary schools to fulfill their legal and statutory obligation to uphold their schools’ ethos. The…
Attempts to blame the Church for the death of a new religious education curriculum are wide of the mark, writes Prof. Eamonn Conway
Though we fear it, for Christians death is a necessary and even a welcome moment, writes Prof. Eamonn Conway
Jesus came to know for certain according to Leonard Cohen, that only drowning men could see him. I was among those drowning back in 2009. As that year began I was diagnosed with a life-threatening tumour. An overwhelming tsunami of paralysing darkness invaded my life. I had experienced darkness before, but this was darker still.…
Government is trying to pretend marriage and children are not linked, writes Fr Eamonn Conway
“The mission of communicating life to others”
There is a unique sense of God’s presence at Lough Derg