We can never be challenged too strongly with regards to being committed to social justice. A key, non-negotiable summons that comes from Jesus himself is precisely the challenge to reach out to the poor, to the excluded and to those whom society deems expendable. Therefore, the huge, global issues of justice should preoccupy us. Can…

After weeks of reading articles and watching programmes about it, I visited the refurbished St Mel’s cathedral in Longford last Sunday afternoon. Crowds were still pouring through its doors, weeks after the official reopening. The addresses in the visitors’ book revealed that many had travelled quite a distance to be there. That’s no surprise, the…

‘be aware of the contemporary contradictions which surround this whole subject of ‘liberty of speech’, writes Mary Kenny

‘The Dáil, which is the ultimate theatre of our democracy, has been reduced by the political parties to being just a rubber stamp’, writes Lucinda Creighton

No one should fear the truth, but the story must be looked at fully, writes David Quinn

‘The Church in the North, far from occupying a position of prestige, was the subject of deep suspicion by the political elite’, writes Michael Kelly

“Even though the official Catholic Church disapproved of rebellion, it was a profoundly Catholic event”

Michael W. Higgins: The View

The pro-life movement is much more fully on the side of women than the pro-choicers, writes David Quinn