“we are made for love… we are made to love”, writes Nuala O’Loan

“I don’t want to be worrying about when to put on the Brussels sprouts: I want to have time and space to think about one of the important issues of our time – refugees”, writes Mary Kenny

Catholics express their faith in the real presence under the species of bread and wine, writes Cathal Barry

The Gospel stories about the birth of Jesus are not a simple retelling of the events that took place then, at the stable in Bethlehem. In his commentaries on the birth of Jesus, the renowned scripture scholar, Raymond Brown, highlights that these narratives were written long after Jesus had already been crucified and had risen…

“On Christmas Eve, as though in some cosmic collaboration, we are all afforded a brief moment of stillness, peace and quiet”, writes Andrew O’Connell

“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…