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”.…

Pro-life advocates are vindicated in the ‘Savita report’, writes Breda O’Brien