Cathal BarryThe beatitude we are promised, according to the Church, confronts us with decisive moral choices, writes Cathal Barry
The desire for happiness
Category: Opinion
We need better tools for handling our grandiosity
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
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…
Statistics don’t back ‘civilised and compassionate’ claim
Michael Kelly
“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
The sad fall of Console
Mary Kenny
“without knowing fully what was going on – people can become actors in their own fantasy lives”, writes Mary Kenny
Somme anniversary is sober reminder of essential role of European integration
Dr Martin Mansergh“The Irish State now finds itself beside a deeply divided and unhappy country”, writes Martin Mansergh
EU must work to get the balance right
David QuinnThe EU is in danger of stretching bonds of fraternity past breaking point, writes David Quinn
A firebrand for the Phillipines
Paul Keenan
The new presidency bodes ill for the Church, writes Paul Keenan
A positive vision of the European project
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.…
The unborn today, someone else tomorrow
Dear Editor, The measure of how just, how equal, we are as a society is surely how we care for the most vulnerable among us. How should we apply this measure to the proposal being pushed by most media since the election, the repeal of the Eighth Amendment? It’s pretty odd that people want a…
Media bias is not just a religious issue
Dear Editor, With reference to Anne McGrath’s letter re media bias (IC 23/06/2016), this bias is evident not only in relation to issues with a religious dimension such as abortion but in relation to a range of social issues. While I still buy newspapers on weekends, I’ve almost given up buying them on weekdays because…