Ireland can manage without the church but can it do without myths?
Unthinkable: Mark Patrick Hederman makes the case for promoting ‘mythic intelligence’
Ireland ‘ruthlessly condemns artists to lives of poverty’
Arts Council budget still 10% lower than it was in 2007, according to The Arts Matter report
Board governance at the heart of problem at the Abbey, says Garry Hynes
‘Not acceptable’ that major national institution ‘apparently lacking in governance’
How ‘Humanae Vitae’ crushed the hopes of millions of Catholics
Fifty years ago encyclical laid down terms of church’s ban on artifical contraception
‘Clericalised’ Catholic Church will not survive, says McAleese
Ireland ‘seeing the final dismantling of patriarchal, misogynistic empire’
Church vows were ‘like putting a manhole over the sewer’
Former Glenstal abbot says pandemic of child abuse and incest is a ‘religious problem’
Catholic woman bishop on Irish vocations recruitment drive
‘Our bishops have absolutely no authority apart from ordaining’
New abbot installed at Glenstal Abbey in Co Limerick
Fr Brendan Coffey received archbishop’s blessing during Mass over the weekend
Behind the News: David Staunton, ecopsychotherapist
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
Education leaders ‘short-sighted’ and putting children ‘last’, says Glenstal Abbot
Negativity from Government and teacher unions ‘numbing’, says Mark Patrick Hederman
‘The world has fallen in love with Pope Francis, but we should be cautious’
As bishops gather in Rome for the synod, prominent Irish Catholics offer their views on the papacy
Ten abuse allegations made against six Glenstal monks
Four no longer there, one falsely accused, one under supervision, one dead, watchdog says
Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’
He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
‘Don’t be afraid’ - funeral told of Heaney ’s last words
Hundreds of figures from worlds of arts, entertainment and politics attend moving Dublin service
Tread Softly festival steps up celebrations
Event focuses on ‘taking Yeats beyond academia and out onto the streets’
More poets needed in political life, according to the Abbot of Glenstal Abbey
Mark Patrick Hederman told the Percy French Summer School a new Seanad should be constituted and should include artists.
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