We should not “treat churches merely as community halls”, writes Andrew O’Connell

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That axiom still holds true for our understanding of suicide. Despite all the advances in our understanding, there are still a number of stigmas around suicide, one of which pertains to how we write the obituary of a loved one who dies in this way.…

The Church teaches that the sacraments are both ever-living and life-giving, writes Cathal Barry

The current retreat from politics means that the bishops have no vision of the common good writes David Quinn

Why Saverio Bellante was taken off medication is the enduring mystery, writes Michael Kelly

In life “you must put your dreams aside and count your blessings instead”, writes Mary Kenny

It would seem for Amnesty that there are lives which are worthy of life and lives which are not, writes Fr Seán MacGiollarnáth

It’s wrong of campaigners to use same-sex marriage as a springboard for abortion, writes Niall Guinan

Christian liturgy not only recalls the salvific events but makes them present, writes Cathal Barry

"Because, my God, though I lack the soul-zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of Heaven and a son of Earth.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin…