Fr Martin Delaney reflects on an inspiring true story of how the kindness of ordinary people can have such an impact on the lives of others

“Human life is not some consumerised product… whereby only those who pass the test of being ‘chosen’ may be regarded as admissible”, writes Mary Kenny

Greg Daly examines a recent survey of religious belief and practice in the farming community

While I was doing graduate studies in Belgium, I lived at the American College in Leuven. On staff there at the time, in the housekeeping and maintenance department, was a wonderfully colourful woman whose energy brought oxygen into a room but whose history of marriage somewhat paralleled that of the Samaritan woman in John’s Gospel.…

Pope Francis has entrusted nuncio’s with the important task of finding candidates who are ” managers, but pastors”

“in so many… countries desperate for better fertility… the economic structure of society just doesn’t support mothers, fathers and families”, writes Mary Kenny

The Church is not involved in a numbers game, writes David Quinn

When Pope Francis launched the Holy Year of Mercy, he promised that Christians could gain a special indulgence during this year. That left a lot of present-day Roman Catholics, and even more Protestants and Evangelicals, scratching their heads and asking some hard questions: Is Roman Catholicism still dealing in indulgences? Didn’t we learn anything from…

Michael Kelly reflects on his experience in the Holy land as a “deeply spiritual encounter with Christ”

Sometimes we’re a mystery to ourselves, or, perhaps more accurately, sometimes we don’t realise how much paranoia we carry within ourselves. A lot of things tend to ruin our day. I went to a meeting recently and for most of it felt warm, friendly towards my colleagues, and positive about all that was happening. I…