The debate over the legacy of 1916 is proposing a specific definition of a republic, writes David Quinn

Ireland has never embraced the French republican model, writes Martin Mansergh

Fr Joe McVeigh The men and women who led and took part in the 1916 Rising were idealists of a kind rarely seen in any country except when there are extreme situations of oppression and tyranny as a result of colonisation by an outside force.  These men and women had seen the dreadful poverty, the…

Fr Séamus Murphy SJ The Easter Rising passes none of the ‘just war’ criteria, it had a pagan love of war and blood-sacrifice, and it attacked important political common goods.  In this article, I focus only on the major criteria.  First: Non-combatants must neither be targeted nor knowingly endangered.  On the first day of the…

The Church teaches that it’s by the conversion of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood that Christ becomes present in the Eucharist, writes Cathal Barry

No generation in history, I suspect, has ever experienced as much change as we have experienced in the past 60 years. That change is not just in the areas of science, technology, medicine, travel and communications; it is especially in the area of our social infrastructure, of our communal ethos. And perhaps nowhere is this…

“Hopefully the centenary celebrations will find a space to remember the priests of 1916”, writes Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

Mary Kenny reflects on an overwhelming visit to a much changed Lebanon

“Being honourable, and living up to high ideals, is most of service to people when they least want it”, writes Breda O’Brien

The Pope is challenging Catholics to transform a cynical and vindictive world, writes Fr Martin Browne OSB