Recently I led a week-long retreat for some 60 people at a renewal centre. Overall, it went very well, though ideally it could have gone better. It could have gone better if, previous to the retreat, I had more time to prepare and more time to rest so that I would have arrived at the…

Fr Martin Delaney reflects on his experiences of the revered shrine

The world of sexual politics is getting more and more complicated, writes David Quinn

Christianity becomes compelling when it is refreshingly different from the surrounding culture, writes Thomas Casey SJ

One of Ireland’s best known priests, familiar to parishioners up and down the country, has passed away, writes Fr Brendan McConvery

Amid claims of an ‘epidemic’ of bullying in the Methodist Church, Cathal Barry investigates whether the Catholic Church has the same issue

A Dublin conference has heard that assisted suicide threatens the weakest among us, Greg Daly reports

The Church teaches that to live in Heaven is to be with Christ, writes Cathal Barry

Christian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, told this story of his first Communion. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family in France and on the day of his first Communion he said to his mother: “I don’t understand what I’m doing.” She answered simply: “It’s okay, you…

Venezuela is on course for political and financial disaster, writes Paul Keenan