No generation in history, I suspect, has ever experienced as much change as we have experienced in the past 60 years. That change is not just in the areas of science, technology, medicine, travel and communications; it is especially in the area of our social infrastructure, of our communal ethos. And perhaps nowhere is this…

“Hopefully the centenary celebrations will find a space to remember the priests of 1916”, writes Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

“It is impossible to understand the motivation of the rebels without reference to the deep Catholic faith which inspired them”, writes Editor Michael Kelly

“the truth about 1916 is that it was an event deeply imbued with Christian and Catholic values, symbols, iconography and beliefs”, writes Mary Kenny

The debate over the legacy of 1916 is proposing a specific definition of a republic, writes David Quinn

Ireland has never embraced the French republican model, writes Martin Mansergh

Fr Joe McVeigh The men and women who led and took part in the 1916 Rising were idealists of a kind rarely seen in any country except when there are extreme situations of oppression and tyranny as a result of colonisation by an outside force.  These men and women had seen the dreadful poverty, the…

“Being honourable, and living up to high ideals, is most of service to people when they least want it”, writes Breda O’Brien

The Pope is challenging Catholics to transform a cynical and vindictive world, writes Fr Martin Browne OSB

Inflated claims about day care should be challenged, writes David Quinn