Does Sadlier really believe his teachings will lead to sexual nirvana? David Quinn asks The programme opens with a shot of a cross and the presenter informing us: “As a predominantly Catholic country, Ireland always had a complicated relationship with sex and sexuality.” Immediately, there is a problem with the narrative. It is predictable, cliched,…
Yesterday Crux carried two stories which, at first blush, appear unrelated. The first concerned the latest Ukrainian backlash against Pope Francis’s praise of “Great Mother Russia,” while the second covered the discovery of a previously unnoticed bit of anti-fascist graffiti from the WWII years in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. Yet pushing beyond the headlines, the two stories do actually…
Paulina Guzik In one of the most significant moments in Polish post-war history, the Ulma family was beatified in Markowa, September 10. “I think it will only get me at night, when I come back home, because now I still can’t believe it,” Jerzy Ulma, nephew of Blessed Józef Ulma, told OSV News. His uncle Józef,…
The famous sociologist of religion Prof. Grace Davie coined the phrase ‘believing without belonging’ to describe the state of religion in Britain in the early 1990s. In 1994, Prof. Davie painted a stark picture of our neighbouring island as a country where church-going is largely a thing of the past, but many people still identify…
For at least the last 1,200 years the tradition of the Church has been that Saturdays are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Have you ever wondered why? What is it about Saturday that makes it so appropriate to remember Mary? The Vatican’s Directory on Popular Piety says that this tradition is a remembrance of the…
Dear Editor, I write to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Cardinal Timothy Dolan for his inspiring message delivered during the recent Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh [The Irish Catholic – August 31, 2023]. His words should resonate deeply with Catholics not only in Ireland but across the globe. Cardinal Dolan’s call for Irish…
A philosophy professor at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alex Byrne, had his most recent book cancelled by the prestigious Oxford University Press.
We repeatedly hear calls for the Government to ‘do something’ to solve the housing crisis. In reality, the Government needs to do less, not more.
My wife recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I love her so much already, and I find it unbelievable
Depending on your point of view, the Irish family is either becoming more ‘diverse’, which is apparently a good thing, or instead we have more family breakdown, which is obviously a bad thing, generally speaking.
David Quinn
John L. Allen Jr.
Michael Kelly
Mary Kenny