“On Christmas Eve, as though in some cosmic collaboration, we are all afforded a brief moment of stillness, peace and quiet”, writes Andrew O’Connell

“It is impossible to understand the motivation of the rebels without reference to the deep Catholic faith which inspired them”, writes Editor Michael Kelly

“the truth about 1916 is that it was an event deeply imbued with Christian and Catholic values, symbols, iconography and beliefs”, writes Mary Kenny

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