The tone of discussions about the Catholic Church in Ireland increasingly reminds me of growing up in the North surrounded by sectarianism, writes Michael Kelly

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…

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…

Attempts to blame the Church for the death of a new religious education curriculum are wide of the mark, writes Prof. Eamonn Conway

“Christians here in Ireland need to ask ourselves what we would do if we were in Syria”, writes David Quinn

Art too has its martyrs and perhaps our greatest pain is that of inadequate self-expression. That’s an insight from Iris Murdoch and it holds true, I believe, for most everyone.  Inside of each of us there’s a great symphony, a great novel, a great dance, a great poem, a great painting, a great book of…

Fr Martin Delaney John Shea, the great Christian storyteller, relates the following Advent reflection. When God was making the trees, he gave a gift to each species. But first he set up a contest to determine which gift would be most useful to whom.  He told them: “I want you to stay awake and keep…

“It’s hard not to have the impression that the move is really designed to crush dissenting voices”, writes Michael Kelly

Mary Kenny defends the Catholic Church against accusations it has contributed to the fall of breast-feeding in Ireland

“A more united Government would provide reassurance”, writes Martin Mansergh