As time goes by, parishes all over the country are continuing to realise the negative effects that Covid-19 had on their communities. Apart from the loss of those who died from the disease, the virus scattered people into greater isolation and broke the habit of Church attendance for many. As communities struggle to re-build after…

It’s cheering to see that Garth Brooks has, once again, had such a popular and rapturous reception in Ireland. Country and western music is a meaningful genre of ballad, lyric and narrative, reaching into human experience just as deeply as great opera. Its roots, moreover, are Irish, or at least partly Irish, the hillbilly notes…

The View I have been thinking more and more about what it means to be defiant in the face of what can seem like an overwhelmingly anti-life culture. I don’t use that phrase ‘anti-life’ casually, either. It is a theme touched on by Pope Francis and others who have reflected on the dubious default of the modern…

Popular images of the practicing Catholic ought not to be mistaken as essential elements of the Faith, writes Jason Osborne For the younger generations of Catholics, the internet is now an inextricable part of their experience of the world. I believe I grew up in the last years that weren’t entirely permeated by the internet,…

Many feminists also reject this worldview and see it as a threat, writes David Quinn Teacher Enoch Burke is in prison at the time of writing for contempt of court. Mr Burke is an evangelical Christian who refused to use the new gender pronoun and name of a pupil in his school in Co. Westmeath,…

We have lost a model for peace and reconciliation, writes Baroness Nuala O’Loan These have been sad days for so many people in Britain and across the world. In her 70 year reign and her 96 years of life, Queen Elizabeth II seems to have become ‘the queen’ for so many countries – even leaders of…

Doreen Abi Raad In Lebanon, teetering on the abyss of a socioeconomic crisis, the future of Catholic schools is at risk. Melkite Fr Youssef Nasr, secretary-general of Lebanon’s Catholic schools, said the school year was opening amid “a major life and existential crisis that stifles the breath of the entire nation and threatens the future…

Eduardo Campos Lima Although the electoral campaign officially started on August 16, the attacks against the two leading presidential candidates in Brazil – current President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly referred to as Lula – has been growing on social media since last year. Much of it is “fake…