Just because something is politically-correct doesn’t mean that it might not also be correct. Sometimes we have to swallow hard to accept truth. Some years ago, I served on a priests’ council, an advisory board to the bishop in a Roman Catholic diocese. The bishop, while strongly conservative by temperament, was a deeply-principled man who…

The Church teaches that the sacraments confer the grace that they signify, writes Cathal Barry

Mary Kenny considers the Golden Rule as a means to combat bullying

The Irish State is not serious about the problem of drug addiction, writes David Quinn

The issue of school divestment is being driven by a highly motivated minority within society, writes Colm Keaveney

Participating in church activities provides a great coping mechanism for those with depression, writes Mary Kenny

Family involves a lifelong commitment from parents and structures should exist to support parents, writes Fiona McCarthy

Mary’s role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Devotional prayer to Mary, the mother of Jesus, has always been the centre-piece within Catholic piety. Among other things, those devotions have focused upon various Marian shrines, places where Mary allegedly appeared, Lourdes, Knock, Fatima, Guadalupe, Medjugorje, among other places. Karl Rahner, studying the phenomenon of Marian apparitions, points out that all these apparitions have…

The apparition at Knock symbolises hope for suffering people, writes Archbishop Michael Neary