We live these days in a scientific age which rejects miracles and deprives history of a metaphysical dimension. This view can be traced back in part to the writings of David Hume (pictured) the Scottish philosopher of the 18th Century, an age when Edinburgh regarded itself as "the Athens of the North"; it was the…

The 135th anniversary of the visions at Knock, which falls on August 21, has brought into focus the whole question of visions, apparitions and the Church’s attitude towards such private revelations, and to Marian traditions as a whole.   Knock is now numbered among the most famous visionary sites in the world, along with Lourdes…

When Dr John Watts was asked if he would write a history of the Diocese of Argyle and the Isles since its restoration as a Catholic diocese in 1878, he quickly realised that to make full sense, to extract the fullness of the history of the Faith in the highlands and islands, he would have…

Irish Episcopal Conference, (Veritas, €24/£19.99)

Capital in the Twenty First Century

The Beauty of God’s Presence in the Fathers of the Church.

Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Black O’Connell

Looking at the Middle East as “the cradle of Christianity”

A selection for summer reading

Here in a sense is the ideal spiritual book for summer reading. Author Daniel O’Leary focuses on the power of dreaming to transform oneself, and by doing so transform the lives of others. In  summer we become conscious of the beauty of the world, with the shining sun, brilliant green, the ebb and flow of…