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Category: Comment & Analysis
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…
The last of the great demagogues
We should give thanks for Ian Paisley’s conversion, says Fr Joe McVeigh
A painful and hurtful road to peacemaker
Lives could have been saved if Paisley’s ‘yes’ had come decades earlier, says Fr Tim Bartlett
‘Sweaty tourists’ may be damaging the Sistine Chapel
Recent accounts in the Italian press have complained that the chapel is “as crowded as a train station”
Jackie Kennedy’s letters: they also belong to future history
The letters, at auction, might well have fetched five million dollars

Michael Kelly
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Cathal Barry
David Quinn
Mags Gargan
Mary Kenny