Dear Editor, It is embarrassing to listen to and read the attempts by the so-called mainstream media to explain away their dishonest and distorted coverage of the US Presidential Election. It is high time they exited their self-created bubble and entered the real world. And what price now the value of the polls they create…
Category: Opinion
Mercy is a Christian duty
Dear Editor, The year of Mercy concludes on November 13 but Mercy as a Christian duty continues life-long. Pope Francis has given a vital practical example of mercy towards refugees. We shall prepare to celebrate Christmas shortly, shall we say “No room at the Inn” to refugees? Many convents and religious houses have just a…
Contributors wanted
Dear Editor, Contributors are wanted urgently for a new book about couples that left Northern Ireland after making a mixed marriage. The Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA) is producing a paperback that will give at least six couples the chance to tell in their own words how they were affected when they put love…
Why dark nights of the soul?
Atheism is a parasite that feeds on bad religion. That’s why, in the end, atheistic critics are our friends. They hold our feet to the fire. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx, for example, submit that all religious experience is ultimately psychological projection. For them, the God we believe in and who undergirds our…
The cardinals America needs
“America’s Church will most need prominent voices seen as champions of immigrants and the poor…” writes Greg Daly
Trump campaign tapped in to fears ignored by other politicians
“The fact that he could be elected in the US is revealing of a wider alienation that many people feel”, writes Michael Kelly
Making connections with Donald Trump’s America
“The world is what it is, and it’s interesting – even droll – to watch the reconfiguration of power politics with a shift in power” writes Mary Kenny
We need to re-think what we mean by generosity
“There is little left to draw on for Christmas, yet Christmas will come”, writes Nuala O’Loan
Donald Trump, the Church and the Common Good
Catholics faced a tough choice in the US election, writes David Quinn
Did Hillary Clinton have a Catholic problem?
Donald Trump capitalised on a perception that his Democratic rival was indifferent to religious concerns, writes John Reid

Courtney McGrail
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Greg Daly
Michael Kelly
Mary Kenny
Nuala O’Loan
David Quinn