Higgins’ human rights concerns gagged by economic intentions?

Will Enda Kenny treat traditional-minded voters with respect in next year’s marriage referendum or will he heap more contempt on them?

Migrants should be acquainted with the law – it’s common sense

Muslim leaders have responded to Pope Francisí call on extremism, writes Paul Keenan

‘Without recognising that the other too is carrying the divine, we will… be unable to truly release our own Magnificat’ writes Fr Ron Rolheiser

‘To meditate on the manger of Bethlehem is to realise that our life is not some meaningless sequence of events’, writes Andrew O’Connell

‘the Eucharist should only sparingly be separated from the celebration of the Mass’ writes Michael Kelly

‘the nastiness of the world cannot be magicked away’, writes Mary Kenny

From the outset, the establishment of Irish Water was a shambles, writes Lucinda Creighton