“Christianity is an invitation. And like Mary to the angel, it requires a response from us”, writes Michael Kelly

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

“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

Condoning assisted suicide would be disastrous pastoral practice, writes David Quinn

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 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…

“Jesus didn’t spend his time sitting around in the Temple or teaching in the Synagogue”, writes Michael Kelly

“The director… transmits the fragility of faith as well as its strengths, and a genuinely powerful sense of sisterhood emerges…”, writes Mary Kenny

The ‘Family Rhythms’ report gives cause for thought, writes David Quinn