Canon Colm Kilcoyne traces the development of popular piety and devotion at Knock

Mary is model of the Church in terms of its missionary outreach and social engagement, writes Bishop Brendan Leahy

Faith has its ups and downs

Cathal Barry takes a look at what the Church teaches about the proper veneration of Mary

Superstition and sickness

Persecution of Christians is becoming worse, but does the Church in Ireland care, asks David Quinn

‘Nobody ultimately gets away with anything, despite every protest to the contrary’

The real point of pilgrimage

Bravo to France for taking the initiative in offering asylum and protection to beleagured Iraqi Christians from Mosul. The French press has followed these dreadful persecutions much more closely than the mainstream press in the English-speaking world.    Ironic that the French Republic, so affirmatively a secular state, has been the most responsive to afflicted…

Again the State has been found wanting in caring for children, writes Shane Dunphy