Featured Articles

Communion, Participation, Mission: An Interview with Cardinal Mario Grech

Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, Bishop emeritus of Gozo, was born in Qala, Malta, in the Diocese of Gozo on 20 February 1957. On 26 November 2005 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as Bishop of Gozo, where he served until 2 October 2019, when he was appointed by Pope Francis

read more

Synodal Pathway: Long-Term Transformation – An Interview with Dr Nicola Brady

Dr Nicola Brady is Chair of the Steering Committee of the Irish Synodal Pathway, and in this interview, she sat down with Oisín Walsh to answer some of the most frequently asked questions revolving around the National Synod that the Irish Bishops announced in 2020. Dr Brady is currently General Secretary for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.

read more

‘Mystery’ stained glass windows in an Irish convent chapel 

Dr David Caron is the editor of the second edition of the Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass which was published by the Irish Academic Press this summer. He was one of the three compilers of the original edition in 1988.   

read more

Covid-19: Faith Under Stress

David Begg is adjunct professor at Maynooth University Institute of Social Sciences and a former general secretary of ICTU

read more

Living with a Rare Disease: Caring and Advocacy – An Interview with Les Martin

To download this article along with the full June 2020 edition of Intercom, click the link: June Intercom 2020 CHRIS HAYDEN: Les, please tell us about the medical condition of your boys, Cathal and Ciaran. LES MARTIN: The boys have a rare, genetic condition called metachromatic leukodystrophy, MLD. It occurs in about one in forty thousand

read more

The Ongoing Task of Vocations Promotion in Ireland

Being a priest or religious in Ireland today is both challenging and adventurous. The reality is that there are fewer priests and religious engaged in active ministry than in the past and our Catholic population is changing – the numbers of priests and religious in our country is declining, in our congregations the average age

read more

The Mission and Work of Every Life Counts – Vicky Wall

Who We Are Every Life Counts provides parents who have received a life-limiting diagnosis for their unborn baby with the vital support they need to let love shine through. We were created in 2014, out of a need to help families who find themselves in a situation where their baby may not live for long

read more

An Easter People – Orla Walsh

When my mother brought home wallpaper and paint, it meant that we were preparing for Easter. We didn’t ever prepare for Christmas the way we prepared for Easter. There was always a room to be decorated and curtains to be taken down, hand-washed and pressed. We were regularly reminded of her youth, when the walls

read more

Being Ready to Challenge Legal Recognition of Surrogacy – David Mullins

Surrogacy is an area of wide-ranging complexity, acting as it does as a kind of nexus for a whole host of other ethical concerns. This article will touch upon only some of them and even then, only tangentially. Also, it is worth bearing in mind at the outset that despite the seriousness of the ethical

read more

Reflections on a Creation Spirituality Retreat – Liam O’Kelly OFM

A couple of years back, I participated in a retreat in Ibricken Lodge, Spanish Point, Co Clare. Outside, the Atlantic’s waves tumbled onto the shore, majestic and alluring. Inside, like a group of budding scientists, we peered through microscopes at tiny, delicate wild flowers, which we had picked earlier, on a walk to the sea.

read more