Fiction writing is a medium inherently unfriendly to the conservative counter-culturalist.
In the olden days, we’d all have rolled our eyes and moved on. The olden times, once again, were all the better for it.
If the Pope – this one or his predecessors – had any interest in saving the church in Ireland, he should have sacked every Irish Bishop twenty years ago and installed people from outside the country to completely reform the Irish Church, root and branch.
we are beginning to see the formation of a core politically Islamic vote in the UK.
Optimism and endeavour is attractive. Resentment and depression is not.
Is the new religion replacing the old?
“There is such a thing as decency, and this is not decent.”
The primary theological difference between worship of the Christian God and worship of the underworld is that only one of those requires that you take responsibility for your actions
The EU elections are fast gathering a cast of thousands, in the candidate stakes, with everyone from John Waters to Ciarán Mulooly throwing their hats into the ring.
If it is Dawkins, rather than some prelate, who softens the hearts of the alienated when it comes to attitudes towards the role of the church in society, then there’ll be a rich irony to the fact that he, of all people, is doing God’s work.
We’re living with many of the consequences of a sexual revolution that has been unleashed without any restraint.
The average Irish household is not draped in LGBT iconography, and the automatic assumptions of progressivism are not immediately perceived as virtuous in the way that they are inside the bubble.