For those who have been taught how to think, it is important to speak up when challenged, writes Breda O’Brien

Perhaps a revival of traditions would help us find our identity again

The Holy Land visit demonstrates the difficult task of being Pope

Canonisation is a sign their lives are worth emulating

Who is shaping our norms, asks Breda O’Brien

Breda O’Brien reflects on the ‘homophobia’ affair

Minister’s approach to RE ‘simplistic’

Some of our priest-cynics are disappointed and shattered idealists, writes Breda O’Brien

The Irish Times carried an extraordinary story recently of a woman who got pregnant on her lunchtime break, using anonymously donated sperm from the Danish firm, Cryos.  What gave the story an added twist is that the woman is adopted, and had spent her whole life wondering “what it was like to look like somebody”.…