“I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.” Socrates wrote those words more than 2,400 years ago. Today more than ever these are words which we would need to appropriate because, more and more, our world and we ourselves are sinking into some unhealthy forms of tribalism where we are…

“I’m more and more convinced that the most important task of a priest is to be an agent and minister of God’s compassion and mercy”, writes Father Martin Delaney

The Christian meaning of death, according to the Church, is revealed in the light of the death and Resurrection of Christ, writes Cathal Barry

The Gospels tell us that after King Herod died, an angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, telling him: “Get up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the child’s life are now dead” (Matthew 2: 19-20). The angel, it would seem, spoke prematurely,…

There seems to be a constant desire to uncover secrets

Priesthood has, in a sense, been lost in a fog of a desire to promote the universal call to holiness

It is such a tragedy that Amnesty has taken away the focus from their great work by introducing abortion as a campaigning issue

Francis is saying that fidelity means sticking by someone even when they become burdensome, writes David Quinn

“Within the Church people often feel vulnerable and feel forced to hide behind the cloak of anonymity”, writes Editor Michael Kelly

“Elizabeth has achieved a form of ecumenism simply by faithfully adhering to her own Christian faith”, writes Mary Kenny