Mary Kenny defends the Catholic Church against accusations it has contributed to the fall of breast-feeding in Ireland

“A more united Government would provide reassurance”, writes Martin Mansergh

Attempts to blame the Church for the death of a new religious education curriculum are wide of the mark, writes Prof. Eamonn Conway

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

Art too has its martyrs and perhaps our greatest pain is that of inadequate self-expression. That’s an insight from Iris Murdoch and it holds true, I believe, for most everyone.  Inside of each of us there’s a great symphony, a great novel, a great dance, a great poem, a great painting, a great book of…

Fr Martin Delaney John Shea, the great Christian storyteller, relates the following Advent reflection. When God was making the trees, he gave a gift to each species. But first he set up a contest to determine which gift would be most useful to whom.  He told them: “I want you to stay awake and keep…

People are forever predicting the end of the world. In Christian circles this is generally connected with speculation around the promise Jesus made at his ascension, namely, that he would be coming back, and soon, to bring history to its culmination and establish God’s eternal kingdom. There have been speculations about the end of the…

John Reid In a blistering editorial comment this week, the Irish Independent criticised the Catholic Church (which has patronage over about 90% of primary schools in the Republic) for its response to the current Government’s draft programme on education about religious beliefs and ethics, even suggesting that a failure to dilute or scrap the ethos…

“For many Irish people, being Catholic no longer means to them what it meant in 1979”, writes Michael Kelly

“…not to re-examine an original analysis of a situation is to perpetuate it”, writes Mary Kenny