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…

“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

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

“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

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