Many Catholics don’t understand what the Church teaches about marriage, writes Kieron Wood

With growing speculation that Pope Francis will visit Ireland, Michael Kelly explores potential options

As it stands, remarried Catholics are not permitted to participate fully in the Eucharist.

Mary Flaherty, the CEO of Children at Risk in Ireland has called on former President Mary McAleese to name, publicly, the cleric who, she said, laughed at her when asked  to reveal details of sexual abuse in the Church in Ireland. The cleric should certainly be identified  since he is now being judged guilty without…

How has a bishop implementing a decision of Vatican II become controversial, asks Bro. Martin Browne OSB

The work of the Irish bishops’ conference is in need of some reform, writes Michael Kelly

Changing our Constitution will introduce a permissive regime of abortion, writes David Quinn

Appearances were sometimes surreptitious with modified surnames

Anthropologists tell us that a frustrated desire to be blessed by our own fathers, is one of the deepest hungers in the world today

Jesus’ temptation reveals the way in which the Son of God is Messiah, writes Cathal Barry