Last week, something extraordinary happened at a place almost none of us had ever heard of before: 60,000 Moroccans, overwhelmingly young men, made the relatively short swim along the shoreline to somewhere called Ceuta, a small Spanish ‘exclave’ along the North African coastline. Ceuta is a small town with 84,000 inhabitants. They witnessed tens of…

Jeff Cavins has a gift for communicating the Good News – with wit, insight and a boldness that cuts to the chase and the heart. More than a decade on, I still remember his refreshing talk at a Faith and Life convention in Belfast. The leading American evangelist, and biblical scholar, was addressing an audience…

I was at Mass recently and the Gospel reading was from St John—the passage where Christ says: “Take courage; I have conquered the world.” As is the norm, the priest gave a homily afterwards, explaining how the Gospel can be applied “in real life”. He explained that none of us escapes life’s challenges or trials.…

Artificial Intelligence – the technology has revolutionised our modern day. A system that has impacted every generation yet left different people of different ages with different perspectives. For three of us Generation Z Intern Reporters at The Irish Catholic, AI has granted us feelings of disarray, contempt and an overarching sense of unease. As we…

Before the next Dáil vote on the three-day wait, TDs must hear from the women whose experiences have been pushed to the margins,   ***   There comes a point when politicians can no longer pretend not to see what is happening in front of them. Ireland has now recorded more than 65,000 abortions since…

I’m back from my sabbatical. On July 14, I left the glorious sun- shine of Victoria and was soak- ing up the glorious sunshine of Dublin the very next morning. And that wonderful weather con- tinued awhile, helping to ease me back into Ireland. But into every life some (met- aphorical) rain must fall. I…

The US Vice-President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha have recently welcomed the birth of their fourth child. Yet American fertility as a whole continues to plummet. It’s down to an average of 1.6 infants per woman, with a marked trend, as elsewhere, towards the one-child family. Meanwhile, in China, society is coping with the…

My cousins in the Bordeaux region have been told to stay away from their home until these terrible wildfires – and the destruction and poisonous smoke they’ve caused – have receded. Appropriately, the scenes in south-western France, and Spain have been called ‘apocalyptic’. And in this summer of extreme heatwaves, climate change sceptics are being…