Mary KennyWe humans find it difficult to reach perfection at all times, writes Mary Kenny
Category: Comment & Analysis
Physician-assisted suicide debate re-runs may be an abuse of democracy
Greg DalyThe Scottish parliament’s 82-36 vote against the introduction of physician-assisted suicide won’t end Britain’s assisted dying debate, any more than did Holyrood’s previous 85-16 vote against it in 2010, or a succession of failed legislative attempts in Westminster and the Welsh assembly. Responding on Twitter to plans for further attempts to legalise assisted suicide, the…
What the transformation of Bruce into Caitlyn means
David QuinnThe world of sexual politics is getting more and more complicated, writes David Quinn
Reality check for the Church
Cathal BarryChristianity becomes compelling when it is refreshingly different from the surrounding culture, writes Thomas Casey SJ
Fr Vincent Kavanagh – The Novena Priest
One of Ireland’s best known priests, familiar to parishioners up and down the country, has passed away, writes Fr Brendan McConvery
Just how widespread is this ‘epidemic’ of bullying?
Amid claims of an ‘epidemic’ of bullying in the Methodist Church, Cathal Barry investigates whether the Catholic Church has the same issue
Killing is not Caring
A Dublin conference has heard that assisted suicide threatens the weakest among us, Greg Daly reports
Heaven
The Church teaches that to live in Heaven is to be with Christ, writes Cathal Barry
The Eucharist is too profound to be fully grasped at first
Fr Ronald RolheiserChristian 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…
Travelling along ‘the wrong path’
Paul KeenanVenezuela is on course for political and financial disaster, writes Paul Keenan