Real life does not always produce a ‘happy ending’, writes Mary Kenny

Being a priest often calls you to be with people in the darkest of hours, writes Fr Martin Delaney

Difference in law on adoption and donor-conception shows hypocrisy, writes David Quinn

It would seem for Amnesty that there are lives which are worthy of life and lives which are not, writes Fr Seán MacGiollarnáth

It’s wrong of campaigners to use same-sex marriage as a springboard for abortion, writes Niall Guinan

Christian liturgy not only recalls the salvific events but makes them present, writes Cathal Barry

"Because, my God, though I lack the soul-zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of Heaven and a son of Earth.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin…

Writer’s ‘shallow’ judgement of Irish hero is nothing but attention seeking, writes Mary Kenny

A recent book, by Robyn Cadwallander, The Anchoress, tells the story of young woman, Sarah, who chooses to shut herself off from the world and lives as an Anchoress (like Julian of Norwich). It’s not an easy life and she soon finds herself struggling with her choice. Her confessor is a young, inexperienced, monk named…

A trip to West Clare prompts Andrew O’Connell to reflect on the “remarkable struggle against adversity”