Long before Patrick ever set foot in Ireland, the pagan Celts believed their island was a thin, holy place, where the veil between heaven and earth vanishes

Readers will be enriched by the way Trevor adroitly stages, from a historically rich minority perspective, the peripheries of Irish life

The Rule of Benedict, embraced so radically by Thomas Merton, created a Scripture-shaped world suffused with reminders of God’s mercy

How does doctrine develop? And what is the proper relationship between theological inquiry and church authority?

Young people need guidance to make choices about sex and love, but they won’t get it from a church that’s still telling girls they’re better off dead than raped

Fifty years ago, the “universality” in Catholic ethics meant absorption into the Roman way of viewing things; a conference in Sarajevo modeled another way