The Donegal-based priest on childhood games with her brother, actor Matthew Broderick, who could play her in a biopic, and how people react to her preaching sermons.
Preparing to climb the old-fashioned way, I am reminded that the modern Reek Sunday is nothing like it was 25 or 30 years ago
David McKean’s ancestor Thomas McKean was one of eight signatories of Irish descent to sign the document
Campaign by the community against conscription has intensified since ‘draft dodgers’ were handed over to the military police
Rite & Reason: A recent report found that 18 per cent of the Republic’s Catholics were born elsewhere. Far from their threatening the old culture, as xenophobes so often suggest, they are keeping it alive
To acknowledge the idea of a saint is to acknowledge the question: what does it mean to be a good person?
Rite and Reason: Magnifica Humanitas considers what it might mean to safeguard the best parts of being human in the time of artificial intelligence
If you ask about the religious aspect of the day then it is often brushed off as naive or beside the point
Warmly welcomed former taoiseach Bertie Ahern wishes Muslims `Eid Mubarak’ at ceremony
Rite & Reason: In 1926, the Presbyterian General Assembly decided that ‘women shall be eligible ... as ruling elders on the same conditions as men’
Róisín Ingle: It feels as though lately, the God so many other people believe in keeps trying to get my attention
Programme to be delivered in multi-denominational primary schools as survey finds growing desire for non-religious run schools
No convincing biblical impediment to their ordination, either
Poet Sinéad Morrissey’s elegiac memoir describes growing up in Troubles-era Belfast with communist parents
There is a strange double standard about religion in schools as opposed to other areas of learning
Mario Durán Domínguez and Joy Adedokun are among 129 people of mostly foreign backgrounds who are joining the church in Dublin this year
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Read the digital edition of The Gloss magazine now
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
