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

Inflated claims about day care should be challenged, writes David Quinn

The whole Church is united with the offering and intercession of Christ, writes Cathal Barry

Some years ago, I was challenged by a bishop regarding an article I’d written. We were talking in his office and the tone eventually got a little testy: “How can you write something like that?” he asked. “Because it’s true,” was my blunt reply. He already knew it was true, but now, realising that, he…

Showing mercy may not always be easy but we must show mercy as God calls us to do, writes Andrew O’Connell

“For Gerry Reynolds, the unity of the Churches was nothing less than sharing the Body of the Lord at the common table”, writes Fr Brendan McConvery

“religion is an important fact of life in the world and that Marian devotion is a central part of the faith of many believers”, writes Editor Michael Kelly

“Religion is meant to inspire mankind to the highest purposes, not to lead to their diabolical perversion”, writes Dr Martin Mansergh

Twenty years after the divorce referendum, David Quinn looks at what predictions came true

The Church teaches that the Eucharist is the memorial of Christ’s Passover, writes Cathal Barry