The Primate of All Ireland has called on the faithful not to forget the Good News of the risen Christ despite “the seemingly intractable problems at home surrounding addiction, housing and migration”. In his Easter message Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh hailed the late sculptor Imongen Stuart, who died last week, and made a bronze…
Ireland’s policy for registering stillborn babies is regressive, writes Wendy Grace Hearing of any family who have had a stillborn baby would lead most people, I am sure, to empathise with the unbearable pain of losing a child. Of course, we want to do all we can to support any family in a time of…
The current political world can be dispiriting but there are ways in which you can affirm both faith and political beliefs, writes Charlie Camosy Kenneth Craycraft, associate professor of moral theology at Mount St Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a new book, Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in…
African witchcraft is being used to traffic women, girls and men, hears Ruadhán Jones It may seem far-fetched in our rationalistic age to think that Juju, a form of African witchcraft, is being used to trap women, girls and some men in modern slavery in Ireland. But a webinar hosted by Irish religious orders…
Theologians sometimes try to express the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection in one sentence: In the resurrection, God vindicated Jesus, his life, his message, and his fidelity. What does that mean? Jesus entered our world preaching faith, love, and forgiveness, but the world didn’t accept that. Instead, it crucified him and by that seemingly shamed…
These two very different books explore aspects of the same centuries long tradition in European architecture, which by extension into the colonies abroad, means worldwide. It is a tradition which has left its mark in many places in the form of classical style churches, which with many public buildings and private mansions, form an important…
Anto Akkara A watchdog group that monitors violence committed against Christians in India has released a study documenting 161 such crimes in the first 75 days of 2024. These numbers may underestimate the number of crimes and acts of persecution committed against Christians in India, according to AC Michael, a Catholic and coordinator of…
Carl E. Olson The Norwegian bishop and Trappist monk Erik Varden, still shy of 50, has established himself as a spiritual writer, retreat leader and prelate of the highest order. Raised in a non-practicing Lutheran home in a village in Norway, he was a teenage “agnostic” who was “hostile” to Christianity. His conversion to the…
The big philosophical questions about faith can’t be ignored, writes Eoin McCormack Almost two years on from the local synodal gatherings held in parishes across the country it seems appropriate as we celebrate season of Easter – the fundamental basis for our Christian identity – to assess our efforts in responding to one of…
Marlon Brando would have been 100 yesterday. Born on April 3, 1924 he was, by fairly common consensus, the greatest actor of his generation. Was he a ‘Method’ actor? This is the school of acting he’s always identified with, focusing as it did on reaching into one’s inner self for inspiration. He claimed not to…
Wendy Grace
Ruadhán Jones
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Peter Costello
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