When John Healy, the great Irish Times columnist in the 1970s, faced covering a bewildering political situation in Ireland he would playfully plead...

Donald Trump is America’s strongman. On election night in November, 2020, he claimed that with over 70 million voters he had won the approval of a ...

The great Shakespearean drama "Macbeth" issues a clear warning to power-hungry and unscrupulous leaders about the consequences of their actions. “T...

About five years ago, I attended a lecture in Manhattan by an Irish Redemptorist priest, Fr. Tony Flannery. The event was sponsored by Call to Acti...

After the crucifixion the fledgling movement of Christians commemorated the life and death of a man who had deeply impacted their lives and who the...

Athenian democracy lasted about 250 years from the early seventh century B.C.E. It was a magnificently successful experiment, involving military do...

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) is remembered mainly because he was beheaded for insisting that his boss, Henry V111, was breaching divine law by claim...

Following the opening presentation by the January 6th Committee, when the whole country heard from a succession of police officers about how they w...

The economic and political impact of immigrants and refugees on American lives has become a lightning-rod issue, sparking strong feelings on both s...

I was among the many “experts” convinced that Vladimir Putin would not invade Ukraine. Our thinking still seems logical: why would he attack the se...

By far the biggest difference between the two main political parties in America resides in their differing approaches to the threat of global warmi...

For the first time in history the number of people in the United States who identify as belonging to a church, mosque or synagogue is less than tho...