Jesus spoke of his Passion as a Baptism which he had to receive, writes Cathal Barry

Recently I read, in succession, three books on suicide, each written by a mother who lost one of her children to suicide. All three books are powerful, mature, not given to false sentiment and worth reading: Lois Severson, Healing the Wound from my Daughter’s Suicide, Grief Translated into Words, lost her daughter, Patty, to suicide;…

“bad news stories can become an excuse for doing nothing”, writes Andrew O’Connell

The Church teaches that Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, writes Cathal Barry

Some years ago, I officiated at a wedding. As the officiating priest, I was invited to the reception and dance that followed upon the church service. Not knowing the family well and having church services the next morning, I left right after the banquet and the toasts, just as the dancing was about to start.…

It seems that all shades of the Catholic world have descended on Rome this week, writes Michael Kelly

Fr Martin Delaney reflects on the greatest irony- how we don’t appreciate something until it is gone

Mary Kenny reflects on the growing popularity of the ‘ghoulish’ and ‘macabre’ festival

We ‘have been bombarded by the cultural norms, which no longer include lifelong fidelity’, writes Breda O’Brien

We need a new creed on marriage and the family, writes David Quinn