Everyday Ethics

Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.

Dr Mohammed Mughaisib has spent the nearly two years working in hospitals in Gaza, in the midst of  bombs, death and destruction.  His family fled to Egypt in February of last year- he hasn't seen them since.  He himself escaped to Dublin around three weeks ago.

Is the Social Contract dying?

After a UN Commission of Enquiry rules that Israel has committed acts of genocide in Gaza, where do we go from here?

The 6th century monastery of St. Catherine's and the tourist mega resort on its doorstep

Rev Izzy Hawthorne Steel and Rev Chris Bennett on how they dealt with church arsonists aged 10 and 11 and Carl Stauffer on restorative justice around the world.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde recalls her sermon before Trump—a plea for mercy in Washington National Cathedral that sparked his outrage the morning after his inauguration.

On the 80th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's powerful political satire Animal Farm, we hear about the author's motivations and the power of his storytelling from Professor Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation. Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov is perhaps most famous for his book Death and the Penguin. He lives and works in a war zone. En route from home in Kyiv to Edinburgh Book Festival, he spoke to Audrey Carville about the risks involved in writing political satire. Orwell Prize winner Sally Hayden (My Fourth Time We Drowned) and EU Prize for Literature winner Jan Carson (The Firestarters) discuss whether their writing is political and how books can change the world.

Fr. Carlos Ferrero on the bombing of his church and the starvation of the people of Gaza.

Rod Dreher on JD Vance's conversion to catholicism