Editor Michael Kelly reflects on the ‘sometimes complex, relationship between Ireland and the Holy See’.

Mary Kenny questions what it takes to be considered influential

The new questionnaire on faith education is designed to be a stitch up, writes David Quinn

Fr Michael Paul Gallagher SJ called people to discover a God who was much more loving than they had dared imagine, writes Fr Thomas Casey SJ

At any given time most of the world believes that death isn’t final, that some form of immortality exists. Most people believe that those who have died still exist in some state, in some modality, in some place, in some Heaven or Hell, however that might be conceived. In some conceptions, immortality is seen as…

The Irish State must have ‘the maturity to acknowledge and indeed celebrate the contribution of religious men and women’, writes Fr Martin Delaney

“Doubt goes hand-in-hand with faith, but it is the approach to the doubt that leads to spiritual growth”, writes Editor Michael Kelly

It is important to examine the definition of a ‘secular’ republic and vote on it if need be, writes Mary Kenny

Martin Mansergh examines Irish attitudes to an ‘imperialist war’ that divided lives and changed the world forever.

The wrong kind of synodality risks the Catholic Church fracturing like Anglicanism, writes David Quinn