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  • What do we need? Catholic Intellectuals or Cheer Leaders

    June 14 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    "Is there one Catholic intellectual in Ireland, the recipient of a huge personal and institutional investment in Catholic education, who’s able and willing to engage with faith questions in the mark

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  • What do we need? Catholic Intellectuals or Cheer Leaders

    June 14 2016
    MM

    Along with a need for 'Catholic intellects’ is an even greater need for 'thinking Catholics'. Indeed part of the problem in the Church has been our letting intellects, particularly of the clerical

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  • Understanding Francis

    June 14 2016
    Con Devree

    The Pope is quoted somewhere as saying that reality is more important than ideas. One pieces of such reality: The Sisters for Life founded in New York 25 years ago by Cardinal Connor now has 80 memb

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  • Mary Magdalene, Apostle

    June 11 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Joe @ 4 & 6: As you say, that was not Mary Magdalen in Matthew 26. The relevant passages are: Mark 16:9-11 (the longer ending of Mark), where "Jesus appeared to Mary of Magdala", and she went and

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  • Visible and Valuable

    June 14 2016
    MM

    "we are all spiritually dead if we don’t continue to examine the reasons why the motives of one man are called in question yet the trillion dollar death industry is not". Very well said Lloyd @2. Th

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  • 15 June. Wednesday, Week 11

    June 15 2016
    Emmanuel Mwase

    I have enjoyed it and learnt alot, praise the Lord.

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  • What do we need? Catholic Intellectuals or Cheer Leaders

    June 14 2016
    Willie Herlihy

    Brendan, as usual,to quote the southern white segregationist  George Wallace 'you put the hay down where the goats can get at it'.   The problem is, with the exception of Diarmuid Martin, we lack le

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  • Visible and Valuable

    June 14 2016
    Soline Humbert

    "For Christians, for Catholics, there can be ‘no other’ and everyone has to be regarded as ‘visible and valuable’." James Martin SJ As it happens next Sunday 19th June is the day for the month

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  • Visible and Valuable

    June 14 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Being born in the 70's, I can honestly say I've witnessed a grand development and have experienced first hand the advent of modern media and its seamless transition to the world wide web. The pinnacle

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  • Visible and Valuable

    June 14 2016
    Mary Vallely

    Yes, well said, Fr Jim. "Those women and men who were mowed down Sunday were all made in the image and likeness of God. We teach that. We should believe that. We must stand for that." (from the Bishop

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