Doubt is like hunger or thirst, it calls us to seek nourishment

My husband was very unwell a few weeks ago – not eating, sleeping all the time. I thought perhaps he was moving towards the departure lounge of life. He’s an Anglican and we had spoken, in the past, about ‘end of life’ situations. His views were the same as mine. You don’t kill people off;…

Pastoral success is the measure of a bishop, writes David Quinn

The Church teaches that it was Jesus’ task to accomplish God’s plan of salvation, writes Cathal Barry

A good part of our lives are taken up with daydreams, though few of us admit that and even fewer of us would own-up to the contents of those fantasies. We’re ashamed to admit how much we escape into fantasy and we’re even more ashamed to reveal the content of those fantasies. But, whether we…

This year, there are two small but heartening signs of encouragement for religious life

The changes in Rome will signal a shift in the balance of power between cardinals

It must have been some eight years ago since Stephen Fry, accompanied by his then-young boyfriend, a hair stylist, very kindly drove me from Oxfordshire to London on a late summer afternoon. We had been attending a barbecue party given by the late Mel Smith, the actor and comedian, and Mr Fry and his companion…

The British government has a moral duty to ensure that sufficient funding is made available to deal with the problems of the Troubles.

We shouldn’t mix up bad experiences with evil, writes Fr Brendan Purcell