The Church has a responsibility to articulate what is and what is not Catholicism

In my role as General Secretary of the Joint Managerial Body and the Association of Management of Catholic Secondary Schools (JMB/AMCSS), I attended the 27th Annual Conference of the organisation in Galway last week. The JMB/AMCSS represents the boards of management and school management in the network of 380 voluntary secondary schools in Ireland. The…

I’m writing this week from St Peter’s Square. It’s Sunday evening and the piazza is calmer now after the immense crowds of this morning’s canonisations. People are wandering around, pausing to photograph the giant portraits of the Church’s new saints hanging from the Basilica. Others are sitting on the steps under the colonnade gazing at…

We must perceive truth in many places

Rome would be prudent to delay any papal trip here

History re-interprets itself, ‘spinning’ what once occurred

Mr Kenny performed quite a turnaround in Rome

Whatever about the crowds, the ceremony will be historic on a number of fronts.

Archbishop Eamon Martin reflects on Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Ireland