Thinking Anew – A time to renew body, mind and spirit

Thinking Anew – Trusting the slow work of God

August Diehl: ‘Acting with Malick you are part of a band making music’

German actor on preparing for A Hidden Life with the unconventional director

Fr Tony Coote was ‘the ultimate connector’, funeral hears

Brother tells congregation motor neurone disease campaigner ‘left on his own terms’

Fighting Words partnership aims to harness creativity in the classroom

Partnership with DCU will see creative approaches embedded in teacher training

The importance of relationships and belonging

The importance of attending to our personal relationships and to the communities we belong to

Irish voices to a Chinese ear

A young Chinese poet delighted by the contemporary Irish poetry scene.

Thomas Merton: the hermit who never was, his young lover and mysterious death

John Cooney, former Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, concludes his profile of the great Catholic mystic and bestselling author, suggesting his death was suicide

Thomas Merton: from wayward youth to man of God

John Cooney traces the unlikely journey of the poet and spiritual writer, born of bohemian parents, who fathered a child as a Cambridge student before becoming a monk

Breda O’Brien: Americans singled out by pope have one thing in common

All shared an intense consciousness of the centrality of God in their lives

Ken Bruen: Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel

How Ireland’s first true crime writer went from hawking his own books around Galway pubs, to rubbing shoulders with some of the best crime authors in the world

Great 20th century mystic Thomas Merton was born 100 years ago next Saturday

‘A voice crying forever into the north wind of indifference’

Unthinkable: Is mystical thinking a cop-out?

Trappist monk Thomas Merton believed that silent contemplation was far from impractical

‘Wonderful life’ of Gordon Colleary recalled at his funeral

USIT founder ‘helped people realise their personal vision, or his personal vision as theirs’