Changing our Constitution will introduce a permissive regime of abortion, writes David Quinn
Category: Comment & Analysis
Clergy on the field of play
Appearances were sometimes surreptitious with modified surnames
Everyone needs the Father’s blessing
Anthropologists tell us that a frustrated desire to be blessed by our own fathers, is one of the deepest hungers in the world today
The temptations of Jesus fulfil israel’s vocation
Jesus’ temptation reveals the way in which the Son of God is Messiah, writes Cathal Barry
Overcoming a culture of doubt
People always listen when they hear others talking about their faith experiences.
Moving beyond provincialism in Irish Catholicism today
Traditional Irish Catholicism, for all of its positive qualities, was infused with an arrogance that is now scarcely believable.
Reacting to criticism and bitter opposition
Natural instinct does not want to try to understand the position of the one who has belittled us
The mysteries of Jesus’ hidden life
The hidden life at Nazareth allows everyone to enter into fellowship with Jesus, writes Cathal Barry
Catholic schools are very welcoming towards Muslims
Allowing Muslim girls to wear a headscarf respects their beliefs while in no way compromising the ethos of a Catholic school, says David Quinn
The preacher who found a natural extension for his pulpit in politics
Straight talk was heard on RTÉ’s The Marian Finucane Show last Sunday about Ian Paisley. Bigotry, the lives of young loyalist men ruined by deeds his rhetoric inspired, and that is not to speak of their victims. The ESRI economist Alan Barrett struck home as I sat two chairs away on the panel. Taking an…

David Quinn
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Cathal Barry
Michael Kelly