The Blessed State of Widowhood

“If I knew losing my husband would bring such pain, I would…

About the Author: Rose Yin-chee Goodstadt

Rose Yin-chee Goodstadt was a pioneer in developing Hong Kong’s social services, especially those serving the elderly and disabled. Currently, she focuses on Ireland’s “new” Catholics from China and their spiritual wellbeing.

The Impossibility of Neutrality – or the ideology of non-ideology

A religiously-identified school accommodates the secular. The same cannot be said of…

About the Author: Mark Hickey

After graduating from UCC in physics and applied mathematics, Mark Hickey undertook postgraduate studies in physics at Cambridge and went on to work in Leeds, MIT and the University of Massachusetts. With a young family to support, he exchanged the atoms and electrons for the bits and bytes of the software industry. He is married to Karen and is father of three.

St Thomas More and the Protestant Reformation

When Martin Luther was promoting the destruction of the Catholic faith in…

About the Author: Rev. Thomas J. McGovern

Rev. Thomas J. McGovern, who is a priest of the Opus Dei prelature, works in Dublin. He holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain. He is the author of Priestly Celibacy Today;  Priestly Identity: A study in the Theology of Priesthood,  and Generations of Priests.