David QuinnAdvances in robotics could prompt ethical discussions on human rights, writes David Quinn
Category: Opinion
No society can survive without religion or a substitute for religion
Courtney McGrailReligion 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’
Greg DalyCain and Abel are the first word about the human condition, but not the last, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks tells Greg Daly
Referendum defeat is an opportunity
Dear Editor, The catastrophic result of the recent referendum is paradoxically a wonderful opportunity to enlighten Irish Catholic life. I would like to make a specific suggestion that the teachings of John Paul II on the Theology of the Body be an excellent source material. By extension this would lead to discussing the whole meaning…
Ireland needs another St Patrick
Dear Editor, The result of the recent referendum in Ireland has devastated me and everyone I have spoken to about it. I am Irish born and for the first time in my life I am ashamed of my country. On the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, the college where I teach had a…
Killing is not Caring
A Dublin conference has heard that assisted suicide threatens the weakest among us, Greg Daly reports
Heaven
Cathal BarryThe Church teaches that to live in Heaven is to be with Christ, writes Cathal Barry
The Eucharist is too profound to be fully grasped at first
Fr Ronald RolheiserChristian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, told this story of his first Communion. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family in France and on the day of his first Communion he said to his mother: “I don’t understand what I’m doing.” She answered simply: “It’s okay, you…
Travelling along ‘the wrong path’
Paul KeenanVenezuela is on course for political and financial disaster, writes Paul Keenan
Peace demands passion, patience and hard work
To overcome fear, discrimination and conflict, people must have a deep desire to open themselves up to God and his mercy, and work actively for peace every day, Pope Francis said. God’s plan for creation is peace, “which always meets opposition from humanity and the devil”, he said during a one-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina on…