We live in a world wherein most everything over-stimulates our grandiosity, even as we are handed less and less tools to deal with that. Several years ago, Robert L. Moore wrote a very significant book, Facing the Dragon. The dragon that most threatens us, he believes, is the dragon of our own grandiosity, that sense…

“each and every story of a difficulty experienced during pregnancy is heart-wrenching, precisely because the gift of a new child is such a beautiful thing”, writes Michael Kelly

The saints did not fall into the modern trap of letting particular worldly experiences ‘measure doctrine’, writes Editor Michael Kelly

“This is the time for Ireland to step up to the plate, show leadership and assume a greater role within the councils of Europe”, writes Mary Kenny

Proposals for religious orders to help tackle the housing shortage may hint at improved relations between Church and State, writes Greg Daly

We must not allow the decision of English voters to destroy what Europeans have built over 70 years of patient statesmanship, writes John Bruton

The Church teaches that the human person participates in the power of the divine Spirit, writes Cathal Barry

“I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.” Socrates wrote those words more than 2,400 years ago. Today more than ever these are words which we would need to appropriate because, more and more, our world and we ourselves are sinking into some unhealthy forms of tribalism where we are…

“I’m more and more convinced that the most important task of a priest is to be an agent and minister of God’s compassion and mercy”, writes Father Martin Delaney

The Gospels tell us that after King Herod died, an angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, telling him: “Get up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the child’s life are now dead” (Matthew 2: 19-20). The angel, it would seem, spoke prematurely,…