“Christianity is an invitation. And like Mary to the angel, it requires a response from us”, writes Michael Kelly
Category: Comment & Analysis
Christmas merriment and Christmas sadness
For many people Christmas is a time of “remembering a past we can never recapture, of family and friends departed this world”, writes Mary Kenny
Let’s hope mainstream media step outside their bubble in 2017
“Now that being a Christian is neither popular nor profitable, our cultural leaders veer just as markedly in the other direction”, writes Breda O’Brien
A total misapplication of the Pope’s teaching on mercy
Condoning assisted suicide would be disastrous pastoral practice, writes David Quinn
Incarnation – God is with us
For many of us, I suspect, it gets harder each year to capture the mood of Christmas. About the only thing that still warms our hearts are memories, memories of younger, more naïve, days when the lights and carols, Christmas trees and gifts, still excited us. But we’re adult now and so too, it seems,…
The People that walked in darkness has seen a great light’
The English Sculptor, Henry Moore is unique because in his work what appears essential is left out; the light is let in…In his work the light always wins. Of all the symbols of this Christmas Season, light is probably the most evocative. The story of how light triumphs over darkness has so much to do…
Our churches as sanctuaries
Whenever we have been at our best, as Christians, we have opened our churches as sanctuaries to the poor and the endangered. We have a long, proud history wherein refugees, homeless persons, immigrants facing deportation, and others who are endangered, take shelter inside our churches. If we believe what Jesus tells us about the Last…
In praise of books at Christmas
Fr Conor McDonough OP In the far-east of Switzerland – la Suisse orientale, as the French speakers in the West charmingly call it – lies a town bearing the name of an Irish saint: St Gallen, a disciple of Ireland’s single greatest contribution to Europe, St Columbanus. The abbey that gave the town its name…
Bringing the Gospel to the marketplace this Advent
“Jesus didn’t spend his time sitting around in the Temple or teaching in the Synagogue”, writes Michael Kelly
Watch The Innocents – the most poignant film I’ve seen this year
“The director… transmits the fragility of faith as well as its strengths, and a genuinely powerful sense of sisterhood emerges…”, writes Mary Kenny