Dear Editor, In the autumn 1944, the Western allies had the deluded idea that the Wehrmacht was beaten and that it was only a force of old men and children. What shocked them with their defeat at Arnhem in September 1944, and the Ardennes attack two months later, was the transformation of a supposedly defeated enemy into…
Dear Editor, The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference must be congratulated on their excellent pastoral statement on the ‘Meaning of Marriage’. However, it is a pity the illustrations used were of the stereotyped family so beloved of the advertising industry: a handsome guy with a beautiful wife, but not more than two children, preferably one boy…
Dear Editor, While I enjoyed Prof. Reville’s article ‘Science vs Religion’ (IC 04/12/2014), I was bemused to say the least that his view of “the function of religion is to teach us how to live good lives”. Maybe this is the function of certain religions but to me, as a Catholic, and based on Christ’s…
The Church teaches that the Holy Spirit is inseparable from the Father and the Son, writes Cathal Barry
There is no hell that Christ cannot penetrate, no locked door he cannot go through, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser
‘The sacredness of each new life is fundamental to my understanding of the world which God made’, writes Nuala O’Loan
The Vatican’s inquiry in to US nuns raises some concerns, but it is positive, writes Paul Keenan
The Church teaches that faith is possible though the working of the Holy Spirit, writes Cathal Barry
‘Christmas is about the monumental challenge to reform our lives’, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser
Gazing upon the awesome majesty of the face of God
Cathal Barry
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Nuala O’Loan
Paul Keenan
Archbishop Eamon Martin