German actor on preparing for A Hidden Life with the unconventional director

Brother tells congregation motor neurone disease campaigner ‘left on his own terms’

Partnership with DCU will see creative approaches embedded in teacher training

The importance of attending to our personal relationships and to the communities we belong to

A young Chinese poet delighted by the contemporary Irish poetry scene.

John Cooney, former Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, concludes his profile of the great Catholic mystic and bestselling author, suggesting his death was suicide

John Cooney traces the unlikely journey of the poet and spiritual writer, born of bohemian parents, who fathered a child as a Cambridge student before becoming a monk

All shared an intense consciousness of the centrality of God in their lives

How Ireland’s first true crime writer went from hawking his own books around Galway pubs, to rubbing shoulders with some of the best crime authors in the world

‘A voice crying forever into the north wind of indifference’

Trappist monk Thomas Merton believed that silent contemplation was far from impractical

USIT founder ‘helped people realise their personal vision, or his personal vision as theirs’