“Doubt goes hand-in-hand with faith, but it is the approach to the doubt that leads to spiritual growth”, writes Editor Michael Kelly

It is important to examine the definition of a ‘secular’ republic and vote on it if need be, writes Mary Kenny

Martin Mansergh examines Irish attitudes to an ‘imperialist war’ that divided lives and changed the world forever.

The wrong kind of synodality risks the Catholic Church fracturing like Anglicanism, writes David Quinn

Delays in the arrival of refugees to Ireland, have not dampened enthusiasm to help, writes Mags Gargan

The Church teaches that the baptised are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit by the sacrament, writes Cathal Barry

At any given time most of the world believes that death isn’t final, that some form of immortality exists. Most people believe that those who have died still exist in some state, in some modality, in some place, in some Heaven or Hell, however that might be conceived. In some conceptions, immortality is seen as…

The Irish State must have ‘the maturity to acknowledge and indeed celebrate the contribution of religious men and women’, writes Fr Martin Delaney

While much attention is focused on Communion for the divorced, the bigger news is a significant pastoral shift, writes Austen Ivereigh

The Synod on the Family has been of great value not despite its tensions and disagreements, but because of them, writes Fr Martin Browne OSB