The wrong kind of synodality risks the Catholic Church fracturing like Anglicanism, writes David Quinn
Category: Comment & Analysis
Parishes prepare to welcome refugees
Delays in the arrival of refugees to Ireland, have not dampened enthusiasm to help, writes Mags Gargan
The Sacrament of Confirmation
The Church teaches that the baptised are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit by the sacrament, writes Cathal Barry
The place inside the heart where everyone is met
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…
Let’s say thanks properly, before it is too late
The Irish State must have ‘the maturity to acknowledge and indeed celebrate the contribution of religious men and women’, writes Fr Martin Delaney
Unpacking the final synod report
The three-week-long Synod of Bishops on the Family has finally wrapped up its work with bishops voting on a final document which has been given to Pope Francis. After much deliberation, a ten-man commission produced a final report of 94 paragraphs, which they endorsed unanimously. The synod then voted on the document paragraph by paragraph,…
Synod proposes a broad shift in the Church’s pastoral focus
While much attention is focused on Communion for the divorced, the bigger news is a significant pastoral shift, writes Austen Ivereigh
Journeying together
The Synod on the Family has been of great value not despite its tensions and disagreements, but because of them, writes Fr Martin Browne OSB
Power of the abortion lobby on full display again
Amnesty’s latest celebrity campaign is a crude piece of propaganda, writes David Quinn
The basics of Baptism
The Church teaches that Baptism is the sacramental entry into the life of faith, writes Cathal Barry

David Quinn
Mags Gargan
Cathal Barry
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Austen Ivereigh
Courtney McGrail