The Church teaches that it’s by the conversion of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood that Christ becomes present in the Eucharist, writes Cathal Barry

No generation in history, I suspect, has ever experienced as much change as we have experienced in the past 60 years. That change is not just in the areas of science, technology, medicine, travel and communications; it is especially in the area of our social infrastructure, of our communal ethos. And perhaps nowhere is this…

“Hopefully the centenary celebrations will find a space to remember the priests of 1916”, writes Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

Mary Kenny reflects on an overwhelming visit to a much changed Lebanon

“Being honourable, and living up to high ideals, is most of service to people when they least want it”, writes Breda O’Brien

The Pope is challenging Catholics to transform a cynical and vindictive world, writes Fr Martin Browne OSB

Inflated claims about day care should be challenged, writes David Quinn

The whole Church is united with the offering and intercession of Christ, writes Cathal Barry

Some years ago, I was challenged by a bishop regarding an article I’d written. We were talking in his office and the tone eventually got a little testy: “How can you write something like that?” he asked. “Because it’s true,” was my blunt reply. He already knew it was true, but now, realising that, he…

Showing mercy may not always be easy but we must show mercy as God calls us to do, writes Andrew O’Connell