Two Irishmen receive Catholic Church’s highest honour for services to music
Previous Irish recipients include John Hume and tenor John McCormack
French women pledge to fight ‘misogyny’ of Catholic Church
A group of Catholic women is demanding an end to discrimination in the church
Pricewatch: Love is in the air – and it costs about €500
Valentine’s Day comes with a pretty hefty price tag for most Irish couples
Age of envy – social media has created a world in which everyone else seems happy
‘We carry our envy amplification device around in our pockets, we sleep with it next to our pillows, and it tempts us 24 hours a day’
It is simply wrong to call a fertilised ovum a human
Objections to embryo modification defy logic: Law must welcome defeat of genetic diseases
Valentine’s Day: expense not necessarily the hallmark of love
The loved-up can splurge on a ‘suite love affair’ or save on German retailers’ roses
Why does the Irish Catholic Church need two large, traditional seminaries?
Financial burden of Maynooth and Rome’s Irish College on church in Ireland too great
NUIG students discover church linked to St Columbanus in Italy
Archaeology students find remains of medieval church beneath basilica in Bobbio
Mass in the vernacular 50 years old this year
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid loved the Latin language and culture and was not enthusiastic about the idea of an all-vernacular liturgy
Rehabilitating Miler Magrath – a Catholic and Protestant bishop
The married Franciscan who fathered nine children
Who was Mary Magdalene, ‘prostitute’, ‘sinner’, ‘apostle of the apostles’?
First to encounter the Risen Christ yet named ‘penitent’ until 1969
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