Irish Papist

Despite setting this blog up to add my tuppenceworth-- or less than tuppenceworth, perhaps-- to the defence of the Catholic Church in Irelan...

Fairly interesting article by Desmond Fennell in the Irish Times today, on suicide. (I won't provide a link since this blog seems to man...

"In socialism [Dostoevsky] saw the offspring of Catholicism, an offspring in which the movement away from Christ had taken the form of ...

A recent letter writer to the Irish Times, Alex Stavely from Donabate, wrote on October 6th of this year: A chara, – Michael Nugent claims a...

So the government has closed our embassy to the Holy See, but refused to admit that it was a political decision, or a gesture of hostility. ...

Though his cheering for free market capitalism and somewhat hawkish US foreign policy becomes tiresome, George Weigel's column is always...

Happy All Saints' Day! I love Halloween, but I think it was only very recently that I realised it had anything to do with the Christian ...