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As the dust settles on the US election, what now for global politics and morality?
As the USA and a nervously waiting world waits to see what impact the 47th President of the United States is going to have on domestic and...
It would be better if society started looking at young people in a more positive light
What with one thing or another, the proclamations that have come out of our new government’s first Party conference so far have been...
Maximilian Kolbe: a light in the darkness of a still dangerous world
When Pope Francis made an apostolic visit to Poland for World Youth Day 2016, he made a particular point of paying a visit to the site of...
As UK enters new political era, it’s time to put Catholic social teaching into practice
In a week where the United Kingdom has moved into a new era in its political leadership, it was apposite that Pope Francis should have...
The veneration of relics is our bridge to the greater meaning of life
I have to confess when it comes to the veneration of relics I’m somewhat torn. On the one hand the historian within me is obsessive about...
As Biden heads to meet Pope, faith and politics were never further apart
For a political culture that’s talking a lot just now about the breakdown of society, it’s a great shame that almost no-one wants to...
As UK water crisis deepens, we need to discuss Catholic models of responsible stewardship
In his groundbreaking 2015 ecological encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis devotes an entire section to the moral issues surrounding...
Rome leads global arguments over need for AI moral framework
In his message for the 58th World Day of Communications, which falls this coming Sunday, May 12th, Pope Francis has expressed his concern...
Thank goodness for the end of the ‘drop the cap’ debate – but what now?
Yesterday's announcement by Secretary of State for Education Gillian Keegan that the government is finally going to remove the...
Alpha, asylum seekers and the debate about genuine Christian conversion
When a car bomb exploded outside Liverpool’s Women’s Hospital just before 11am on Remembrance Sunday 2021, it was dismissed as a clumsy...
It will take more than a referendum to distract from Ireland’s growing migrant crisis
When my parents used to take us back home to spend our summer holidays in County Leitrim, it was for us an idyllic time of immersion in a...
Euthanasia debate needs to focus more on providing better terminal care than ending lives
As we head into the month of February Pope Francis has issued a very timely announcement that his prayer intention for the month of...