When it comes to love affairs, or romantic entanglements, the question of who is luring whom can be a complex one. A Kenyan bishop, Hieronymus Emusugut Joya, has asked women to respect the celibacy of Catholic priests and not to tempt or “force them into affairs”. He has banned overnight guests at priests’ residences, and…

How would you feel if, in order to practice your Catholic faith, you had to comply with a draconian series of laws which dictated whether there could be a church, who could be appointed as a bishop or priest, how priests were to be trained, when and where worship was allowed, who could belong to…

Last week, something extraordinary happened at a place almost none of us had ever heard of before: 60,000 Moroccans, overwhelmingly young men, made the relatively short swim along the shoreline to somewhere called Ceuta, a small Spanish ‘exclave’ along the North African coastline. Ceuta is a small town with 84,000 inhabitants. They witnessed tens of…

Jeff Cavins has a gift for communicating the Good News – with wit, insight and a boldness that cuts to the chase and the heart. More than a decade on, I still remember his refreshing talk at a Faith and Life convention in Belfast. The leading American evangelist, and biblical scholar, was addressing an audience…

I was at Mass recently and the Gospel reading was from St John—the passage where Christ says: “Take courage; I have conquered the world.” As is the norm, the priest gave a homily afterwards, explaining how the Gospel can be applied “in real life”. He explained that none of us escapes life’s challenges or trials.…

Artificial Intelligence – the technology has revolutionised our modern day. A system that has impacted every generation yet left different people of different ages with different perspectives. For three of us Generation Z Intern Reporters at The Irish Catholic, AI has granted us feelings of disarray, contempt and an overarching sense of unease. As we…

Before the next Dáil vote on the three-day wait, TDs must hear from the women whose experiences have been pushed to the margins,   ***   There comes a point when politicians can no longer pretend not to see what is happening in front of them. Ireland has now recorded more than 65,000 abortions since…

I’m back from my sabbatical. On July 14, I left the glorious sun- shine of Victoria and was soak- ing up the glorious sunshine of Dublin the very next morning. And that wonderful weather con- tinued awhile, helping to ease me back into Ireland. But into every life some (met- aphorical) rain must fall. I…