Dear Editor, Where did we go so wrong? We have now voted to give the State power to decide what marriage is. We, the Church, have failed fellow Christians and wider society, as many Christians have rejected the Gospel truths on marriage for a Marxist ideology. Not even the USSR or present-day China has managed…
Category: Opinion
Time for Christian Churches to unite
Dear Editor, Noting the further slip in the influence of the Catholic Church in this country, I feel that we are being prompted to “make all things new”. The ‘new’ thinking could be to work more actively in bringing unity to the Christian Churches. Early enthusiasm for this work has waned. Each Christian Church has…
Let’s keep things simple
Dear Editor, I was impressed with what Fr Joe McDonald had to say (IC 38/05/2015 ‘Dublin priest lashes Church leaders on referendum’). May I say thanks to David Quinn and the many people like him who did great work in advance of the referendum. I am not very well educated in my Catholic faith but…
New Heaven and new Earth
The Church teaches that in the new universe, God will have his dwelling among men, writes Cathal Barry
Doing the best we can, whatever the circumstances
Recently I led a week-long retreat for some 60 people at a renewal centre. Overall, it went very well, though ideally it could have gone better. It could have gone better if, previous to the retreat, I had more time to prepare and more time to rest so that I would have arrived at the…
Medjugorje is an extraordinary oasis of peace
Fr Martin Delaney reflects on his experiences of the revered shrine
Medjugorge shrine is a politically delicate issue
Despite lack of Vatican endorsement, pilgrims remain devoted to apparition site, writes Mary Kenny
Intelligent robotics is close enough to worry about now
Advances in robotics could prompt ethical discussions on human rights, writes David Quinn
No society can survive without religion or a substitute for religion
Religion will always return because it is hard to live without meaning, writes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
‘We must step outside our community and see faith from another vantage point’
Cain and Abel are the first word about the human condition, but not the last, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks tells Greg Daly

Courtney McGrail
Cathal Barry
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Mary Kenny
David Quinn
Greg Daly