In the Church, the consecrated life is seen as a special sign of the mystery of redemption, writes Cathal Barry

Evolution, Charles Darwin famously stated, works through the survival of the fittest. Christianity, on the other hand, is committed to the survival of the weakest. But how do we square our Christian ideal of making a preferential option for the weak with evolution? Nature is evolutionary and, inside of that, we can perceive a wisdom…

Colette Furlong Lent this year was like no other I’ve known. As the catechist in a cluster of parishes we spend quite some time every year deciding what programme of faith formation we will offer for the seven weeks, but we could have done without one had we simply embraced as parishes the original Lenten…

Pope Francis opens the ‘Holy Door’ to the Year of Mercy for Catholics all over the world, writes Michael Kelly

Why should so vital a civil institution as marriage drop the requirement of equal gender representation, viz. one man and one woman?

A new process is being developed to assist Catholic schools rediscover their distinctiveness, writes Cathal Barry

A ‘yes’ vote will deliberately deprive children of either a mother or a father, writes David Quinn

Changing the definition of marriage clearly affects children, a leading constitutionalist tells Greg Daly