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The #MeToo movement is the bust to end the 1960s boom in sexual permissiveness. Continue Reading »

Italy's fastest-growing political movement, Lega, may end up leading the country’s next government.  Continue Reading »

In an Irish health care system creaking at the seams, human beings still look upon one another with affection, pity, and mercy. Continue Reading »

Ireland's upcoming referendum on abortion marks an unprecedented moment in human history. Continue Reading »

The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Powerby stephen baskervilleangelico, 408 pages, $30 Divorce cases in the U.S. now account for 35 to 50 percent of civil litigation, at a cost to the public purse of billions of dollars per year. Out of . . . . Continue Reading »

In 1974, the year I turned nineteen, I took my first real job in the goods store of a railway station in County Mayo, in the west of Ireland. I was pleased to be off my parents’ hands, but uneasy in my position. The tiny goods office was an anthill of activity, with a constant flow of locomotive . . . . Continue Reading »

Last Testament: In His Own Wordsby benedict xvi with peter seewald bloomsbury, 288 pages, $24 Arandom tale from the front line of the ­Ratzinger media wars: At the time of Benedict XVI’s announcement in 2013 that he was to step down as pope, I was writing for one of the Irish national dailies. . . . . Continue Reading »