Sister Clare O’Mahony tells Martin O’Brien about being the face of Christ to prostitutes

Bishop Francis Duffy speaks to Paul Keenan of his new role in Ardagh and Clonmacnois

Peter Costello profiles a forgotten novelist of Catholic Ireland

Martin O’Brien visits Fr Gary Donegan in Ardoyne, Belfast

The chairperson of St Brigid’s Parish Council shares his story with Martin O’Brien

In an explosive new interview, Pope Francis tells Fr Antonia Spadaro SJ the Church needs to be more open

Bernadette Sweetman explores using Share the Good News as a catechetical resource

"Despite their condemnation of violence, the Churches were not seen as neutral and above the fray. They were seen as part of the problem. This made it very difficult for them to be seen as part of the solution.”   That was John Brewer, Professor of Post-Conflict Studies, one of the foremost sociologists of religion,…

They have come five and a half thousand miles and they are one of the refreshing untold stories of post-Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.   We aretalking about the arrival in the North since around 2,000 of a significant number of Syro Malabar Catholics, formerly known as the Church of St Thomas Christians, from…

Padre Pio is a saint for our time. He has been recorded on tape, filmed, and photographed by many people. I’ve known and spoken to people who have met him, talked to him and been toconfession with him. I lived with a friar who, while a theology student in Rome, spent the summer months during…