Dara Ó Briain is surely one of the most successful of Irish comedians, mostly living and working in Britain, though currently on tour in Ireland. He’s the genial but sharp host of the hugely engaging Mock the Week satirical programme on BBC. Dara is also an award-winning debater and a brilliant mathematician who has partnered…
Recently, I came across the beautiful Litany of Trust for the first time. It was written by Sr Faustina Maria Pia Bianchi S.V., a member of the Sisters Of Life, an order founded by Cardinal John O’Connor in 1991 to uphold a culture of life. This modern-day Sr Faustina was given the name at Baptism,…
The migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border is the latest instantiation of people being used in an authoritarian power-play, writes Jason Osborne from Poland Recent weeks have seen thousands of migrants driven to the Polish-Belarusian border by the authorities in Belarus, prompting the chairman of the Polish bishops’ conference’s urgings that the Faithful “pray fervently”…
We can help culture by showing people just how much pain treating one another as disposable has caused, writes David Quinn Emily Ratajkowski is one of the most famous models in the world today. She shot to fame in 2013 when she appeared topless in a video for the hit song ‘Blurred Lines’ by Robin…
To get the process right we must listen with respect to those who have something to say born from experience, writes Garry O’Sullivan When Pope Francis in 2013 decided he would eat in the canteen like the rest of the staff, people realised that a different kind of Church was being promoted. I remember being…
Letter from Rome Catholic history is a like a river fed by many currents, but one of the strongest and most perennial, undeniably and inextricably, is food. At the very heart of the sacramental system is a shared meal, and when we pray as Christ himself taught us, we ask for our daily bread. Over…
New data released by the Church in Italy highlights what has been a concerning trend among Catholic leaders in the country for decades: namely, a drop in the number of local priests and an increase in the average age of Italy’s clerics. However, this data also found that while there are less men joining the…
I was raised in a generation that taught that God gave each of us a vocation to live out. In the religious ethos of that time, particularly in Catholic spirituality, we believed that we were put on this earth with a divine plan for us, that God gave us each a special vocation to live…
Notebook His father was dead, and we were gathered in the house. The mood changed from silence to chat, to laughter, then tears and then back to silence. A very typical and familiar scene. There were stories too. He talked about the first funeral he ever attended on his own. He was maybe 12 or…
Dear Editor, The Religious Sisters of Charity, an order heretofore embroiled in contention regarding the ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital, has relinquished its role in its health care group having no role whatsoever in the management or governance in relation to the new national maternity hospital and the St Vincent’s Hospital Group (SVHG)…
Mary Kenny
Breda O'Brien
David Quinn
John L. Allen Jr.
Fr Ronald Rolheiser