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…

“For many Irish people, being Catholic no longer means to them what it meant in 1979”, writes Michael Kelly

“…not to re-examine an original analysis of a situation is to perpetuate it”, writes Mary Kenny

The latest sitting was far from neutral, writes David Quinn

People are forever predicting the end of the world. In Christian circles this is generally connected with speculation around the promise Jesus made at his ascension, namely, that he would be coming back, and soon, to bring history to its culmination and establish God’s eternal kingdom. There have been speculations about the end of the…

John Reid In a blistering editorial comment this week, the Irish Independent criticised the Catholic Church (which has patronage over about 90% of primary schools in the Republic) for its response to the current Government’s draft programme on education about religious beliefs and ethics, even suggesting that a failure to dilute or scrap the ethos…

“We should empty our minds of fears, hates, insecurities, regrets”, writes Mary Kenny

“Making enough plastic to satisfy the US water market takes 17 million barrels of oil”, writes Breda O’Brien