Sally McEllistrim We could come back to our ‘comfortable’ lives. That was the overriding thought in my mind as we stood in the baking heat in Manila and watched children naked and crawling with lice and sores run about the cemetery where they live. Yes, the cemetery where they live. Takes a while to sink…

World Missions Ireland (WMI) has taken a fresh and novel approach this year to engage Irish people about mission. Journalist Charlie Bird accompanied WMI staff members on a mission trip to South Korea and the Philippines and a DVD, filmed by the well-known broadcaster is due to be shown in Churches across Ireland on Mission…

Sally McEllistrim visits a missionary sister working with a disadvantaged tribe in the Philippines

For congressman Chris Smith, who has represented New Jersey in the US House of Representatives since 1981, opposition to abortion rests on the same principles as his roles as co-chairman of the Coalition for Autism Research and Education and of the bipartisan Congressional Alzheimer’s Task Force. “To me it comes from the same impulse,” he…

An award-winning novel gets Reformation England profoundly wrong, Greg Daly is told

Many baptised Catholics are finding what they are looking for in other denominations, writes Ryan Connolly

On a recent trip to Tanzania, Michael Kelly discovered that miracles do indeed happen

Statesman, patriot, Catholic, primary carer to Gertrude, his dementia-stricken wife, Seamus Mallon is in his eightieth year now and in less than robust health. And his distinctive voice once familiar through radio and television in households throughout Ireland may not be quite as strong as when it echoed in parliamentary chambers in Dublin, Belfast and…

Mags Gargan speaks to a Mercy Sister working at the heart of global development policy

Patrick Cassidy tells Greg Daly about finding your own voice while respecting tradition