Ancient Greece expressed much of its psychological and spiritual wisdom in its myths. The Greeks didn’t intend these to be taken literally or as historical, but as metaphor and as an archetypal illustration of why life is as it is and how people engage life both generatively and destructively. Many of these myths are centred…
Category: Comment & Analysis
Our Church must find new ways to teach the Faith
Neither the Pope nor Church teaching is a battering ram to be used against those who we see as our rivals within the Church.
Synod on the Family must ally pastoral care to some good teaching
Many people don’t know or understand the Church’s moral standards, writes David Quinn
Church ready to take a fresh approach
The synod has made the first bold steps towards welcome and healing, writes Austen Ivereigh
The unhappy cost of resentment
Our need to cut down someone else is an infallible sign of our own jealousy and bad self-image
Jesus and the Temple
Jesus scandalised the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners, writes Cathal Barry
Men are fragile Sex when it comes to Suicide
Five times as many men as women are taking their own lives
Paul VI beatification highlights the importance of dialogue
Pope Paul VI will be remembered as a man who loved the Church
Dialogue is not always an easy road to travel
Sr Rebecca Conlon SSC describes her mission in Pakistan
Christian view on life’s many questions needed
It’s difficult to think of many philosophers articulating a publicly consumable Christian perspective on life’s meaning