Madeleine Teahan

Pope Francis’s funeral brought the least and the greatest together

27 April 2025 12:06 am

In the story of Pope Francis’s papacy, the same thread ran through the first and final chapters. On the evening…

Babies with Down’s syndrome have a right to be born

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Many of us remember at least one morning in our childhoods when fate threw us some unexpected twist and we…

Why are so many Catholic schools affected by the Raac crisis?

8 September 2023 12:07 am

We now know the names of the 156 schools across the country with crumbling reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) inside…

The alarming spread of child euthanasia

4 May 2023 2:56 am

A few weeks ago the Dutch parliament announced that euthanasia will be licensed for children between the ages of one…