Unthinkable: Mark Patrick Hederman makes the case for promoting ‘mythic intelligence’

Arts Council budget still 10% lower than it was in 2007, according to The Arts Matter report

‘Not acceptable’ that major national institution ‘apparently lacking in governance’

Fifty years ago encyclical laid down terms of church’s ban on artifical contraception

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Ireland ‘seeing the final dismantling of patriarchal, misogynistic empire’

Former Glenstal abbot says pandemic of child abuse and incest is a ‘religious problem’

‘Our bishops have absolutely no authority apart from ordaining’

Fr Brendan Coffey received archbishop’s blessing during Mass over the weekend

A series of Climate Conversations began at Dublin Climate Gathering this week. One of the attendees explains why ‘ecopsychology’ is part of the solution to climate-change denial

Negativity from Government and teacher unions ‘numbing’, says Mark Patrick Hederman

As bishops gather in Rome for the synod, prominent Irish Catholics offer their views on the papacy

Four no longer there, one falsely accused, one under supervision, one dead, watchdog says

He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’

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Hundreds of figures from worlds of arts, entertainment and politics attend moving Dublin service