Did you know that our government made a deal with the religious orders to cover their costs in the Residential Institutions Redress Board? Of course you did: I told you [...]

Bishop Willie Walsh is probably the best of the Irish Catholic hierarchy. He's an affable, humble and self-effacing guy. He believes in reaching out to his people and he goes [...]

Isn't there some big Catholic thing coming up soon, in early December? The Immaculate Assumption, or the Holy Dispersal. Something of that sort, anyway. The Blessed Emulsification, maybe. In the [...]

They changed the system for kids committing crime. It used to be that kids of seven years could be held responsible for crimes, which was plainly nonsense. That law was [...]

Bock is not big into religion, as you might have gathered. Bock, in fact, never sets foot inside a church, synagogue or temple unless, at the end of the ceremony, [...]