A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
Our fascination with, and enslavement to, constantly new things is unthinking and possibly harmful.
It is important to remember that many people have incentives to make Omnicron a massive story.
In the very early days of Christianity, there was the phenomenon of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers), people who sought the wilderness so as to avoid the various distractions of society, to try to better practise the gospel way of life. Later was the example of St. Benedict (5th century), who built a monastery at Monte Cassino […]
Parents say children terrified by prospect
Lessons for Ireland
it’s a reasonable assumption, at this point, that these vaccines will amount to a transitory, stop-gap solution
That’s a mark of where our culture is, and what people feel it necessary to say, to prove their own normality and cultural sensitivity.
The Abortion Rights Campaign has boycotted the Irish Times for being “transphobic,” suggesting, once more, that one can literally never be liberal or progressive enough to appease the Irish NGO sector. After all, if the paper of Fintan O’Toole and Una Mullally is not sufficiently on-side, who is? “Transphobia has no place in the paper […]
‘Changing the public narrative’
We urgently need a national discussion about this which is cool, calm, balanced, and informative. There does not, at present, seem to be any prospect of us getting one.
Those pursuing Mark Humphrys do not, in truth, really care what he said, or says. What they want is to send a signal about their own views: Agree with us, or else.