Changing the definition of marriage clearly affects children, a leading constitutionalist tells Greg Daly

Lay people are at the front line of Church life, writes Cathal Barry

An open letter to Catholic bishops

God has a great habit of surprising us, writes Andrew O’Connell

Editor’s Comment with Michael Kelly

Back in the 1880s, Lord Randolph Churchill (father of Winston Churchill) fiercely opposed Irish Home Rule warning that  “if Ireland goes [leaves the Union], the rest will follow”. It has taken 130 years for that prediction to materialise, but the late Lord Randolph would be alarmed indeed to see the rise and rise of Scottish…

The marriage referendum is not about equality, writes Breda O’Brien

Each bishop must have concern for the whole Church, especially to the poor, writes Cathal Barry

We judge ourselves, we punish ourselves and we put ourselves in various forms of hell

Being a visible young religious in public can feel a bit like being a panda in a zoo