Greg Daly examines a recent survey of religious belief and practice in the farming community

While I was doing graduate studies in Belgium, I lived at the American College in Leuven. On staff there at the time, in the housekeeping and maintenance department, was a wonderfully colourful woman whose energy brought oxygen into a room but whose history of marriage somewhat paralleled that of the Samaritan woman in John’s Gospel.…

“in so many… countries desperate for better fertility… the economic structure of society just doesn’t support mothers, fathers and families”, writes Mary Kenny

The Church is not involved in a numbers game, writes David Quinn

When Pope Francis launched the Holy Year of Mercy, he promised that Christians could gain a special indulgence during this year. That left a lot of present-day Roman Catholics, and even more Protestants and Evangelicals, scratching their heads and asking some hard questions: Is Roman Catholicism still dealing in indulgences? Didn’t we learn anything from…

Michael Kelly reflects on his experience in the Holy land as a “deeply spiritual encounter with Christ”

British Catholic schools are a “very useful template for discussion” in Ireland writes Mary Kenny

“Much of politics is about trying to shift financial burdens on to other shoulders”, writes Martin Mansergh

The founder of the Legion of Mary continues to inspire writes Finola Kennedy

Where are the doctors to defend the principle of ‘do no harm’, asks David Quinn