Opinion

In his final moment, Osama Bin Laden must have known that the United States had finally caught up with him. This will be a matter of grim satisfact...

Here's what they died for. The right not to wear a prison uniform; the right not to do prison work; the right of free association with other prison...

By John McCarthy Irish Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn has asked that the Catholic Church be divested of half of the 3,000 national schools in ...

By the middle of Easter Week 1916 it was evident to any impartial or detached observer that the odds were stacking up by the hour against the men a...

Despite the broadly held view of Ireland being largely a Catholic country with an education system dominated by the Catholic Church, the Republic t...

Everybody sooner or late passes through Ireland. It's like the weather. Just about every meteorological manifestation lands on, or passes over the ...

A friend of mine was at Mass on the morning of April 12 in Charleston, South Carolina, when he heardwhat sounded like cannon fire nearby. It was pu...

The week leading up to Easter Sunday is a preeminent one for Christians all over the world. In Ireland, it has long been associated with the prayer...

At a recent meeting at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, chaired by past national president Ed Wallace with co-chair Tom Beirne, New Yo...

A hearing recently held by the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Congressman Peter King, drew media criticism for its topic: the potent...

Reporters of a certain age will tell you of a time in the Northern Ireland conflict when words of condemnation scarcely had time to dry on the page...

Grace operates in strange ways, especially in explaining a revived appreciation of religion on the part of one of the most successful figures in th...