Rise in Humanist weddings is a challenge for the Christian Churches to up their game

A large number of people now meet their girlfriends, boyfriends, and spouses, over the Internet. Some marriage and friendship bureaux have gone out of business because Internet dating has become so popular. And it seems logical: the Internet provides a huge pool of people to choose from. And if used cannily, it can also be…

Mary Flaherty, the CEO of Children at Risk in Ireland has called on former President Mary McAleese to name, publicly, the cleric who, she said, laughed at her when asked  to reveal details of sexual abuse in the Church in Ireland. The cleric should certainly be identified  since he is now being judged guilty without…

The letters, at auction, might well have fetched five million dollars

Technology is pushing back the frontiers of early survival for babies, writes Mary Kenny

The centenary of the Irish Home Rule bill was finally signed into law on September 18, 1914, and it is a nice coincidence that exactly a hundred years later, Scotland will vote on a referendum for or against Scottish independence. The debate about Scottish independence does prompt the thought: how would the Irish people have…

One of the most salient aspects of the troubling recent case in which a woman was given a Caesarean section at 25 weeks pregnancy (after she sought a late abortion for suicidal feelings) was the report that the woman herself had said she might be “killed” for being pregnant. At the time of writing, we…

Theologians ever since Aquinas have pondered on the case for the ‘Just War’.

Superstition and sickness