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

A 14-year old girl in the UK, dying of cancer, was awarded by court the right to have her body frozen after her death, so-called ‘cryogenic freezing’. The girl, who has since died, wants the possibility of being raised from the dead if science ever allows this, even if that is still hundreds of years…

A prophet makes a vow of love, not of alienation. Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they need to be highlighted today when a lot of very sincere, committed, religious people self-define as cultural warriors, as prophets at war with secular culture.  This is the stance of many seminarians, clergy, bishops, and whole denominations of…

Finola Kennedy November is the month of the Holy Souls. It is a time when we pray for the dead, and many visit the graves of their loved ones. But cemeteries attract visitors for other reasons too. A cemetery might seem an unlikely tourist attraction but Glasnevin has been drawing increasing numbers especially following Aoife…

Donald Trump capitalised on a perception that his Democratic rival was indifferent to religious concerns, writes John Reid

The election raises urgent and dramatic questions for US Catholics, writes Massimo Faggioli

Atheism is a parasite that feeds on bad religion. That’s why, in the end, atheistic critics are our friends. They hold our feet to the fire. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx, for example, submit that all religious experience is ultimately psychological projection. For them, the God we believe in and who undergirds our…

“America’s Church will most need prominent voices seen as champions of immigrants and the poor…” writes Greg Daly

“The fact that he could be elected in the US is revealing of a wider alienation that many people feel”, writes Michael Kelly

“The world is what it is, and it’s interesting – even droll – to watch the reconfiguration of power politics with a shift in power” writes Mary Kenny