Once again the Church finds itself in the firing line, this time over how it ran mother and baby homes in the past
Category: Comment & Analysis
‘Tuam did not happen in a vacuum’
Soul-searching on our dark past is overlooking some key points
In the dock
A history of marginalising the most vulnerable
Jesus of Nazareth
Catholics believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a Jew of a daughter of Israel at Bethlehem at the time of King Herod the Great and the emperor Caesar Augustus, a carpenter by trade, who died crucified in Jerusalem under the procurator Pontius Pilate during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, is the eternal…
Forming faith
Cathal Barry takes a look at the new Catechism
Wild exaggerations piled on Tuam story
We must distinguish hysteria from facts
Compassion can sometimes arise from surprising places
Where there was cruelty, there was also pity
First Holy Communion…then what?
Jesus should not be ‘taught’ only to be forgotten
Wearied in our patience
We must never grow weary of doing what’s right
The gross hypocrisy of our media exposed again
There is an appalling double standard at work

David Quinn
Paul Keenan
Cathal Barry
Mary Kenny
Fr Ronald Rolheiser