We live in a world wherein most everything over-stimulates our grandiosity, even as we are handed less and less tools to deal with that. Several years ago, Robert L. Moore wrote a very significant book, Facing the Dragon. The dragon that most threatens us, he believes, is the dragon of our own grandiosity, that sense…
“each and every story of a difficulty experienced during pregnancy is heart-wrenching, precisely because the gift of a new child is such a beautiful thing”, writes Michael Kelly
“without knowing fully what was going on – people can become actors in their own fantasy lives”, writes Mary Kenny
“The Irish State now finds itself beside a deeply divided and unhappy country”, writes Martin Mansergh
The EU is in danger of stretching bonds of fraternity past breaking point, writes David Quinn
The new presidency bodes ill for the Church, writes Paul Keenan
Dear Editor, John Bruton’s article (‘Brexit and the future of the European project’ IC 30/06/2016) made an impressive case of explaining popular disenchantment with the European project, and effectively refuted the common line that, for instance, the EU is torturing and impoverishing Greece, persuasively arguing that if anything the EU is helping that struggling country.…
Proposals for religious orders to help tackle the housing shortage may hint at improved relations between Church and State, writes Greg Daly
We must not allow the decision of English voters to destroy what Europeans have built over 70 years of patient statesmanship, writes John Bruton
Dear Editor, Despite support for continued EU membership in London and Liverpool, the recent Brexit vote seems to suggest a huge gap between English Catholics and Church leaders. Polls show that almost 60% of voters who self-identify as Christians voted to leave the EU, strikingly disproportionate to the 52% of the general population who did…
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Michael Kelly
Mary Kenny
Dr Martin Mansergh
David Quinn
Paul Keenan
Greg Daly