Perhaps you feel like you're skimming the surface of life or stuck in a rut ... from a Catholic perspective, it can be a very positive reality because renewing yourself is very much anchored in Christ.

Thick in the trenches of parenting small children and balancing professional work, I’ve had my fair share of overwhelm over the years, and in quiet moments of prayer I’ve often thought does God really care about all this? Does any of this actually matter to Him? Do I really matter to Him?

Sometimes I ask myself the question: am I happy to live an ordinary, normal life? To be an ordinary person? Happiness, defined as “an emotional state characterised by feelings of joy, satisfaction, contentment and fulfilment”, is something I think we’re all after.

Grace Hoffman is a Fellow at the American Council on Women, Peace, and Security. In this episode, we talk about how her studies in Trinity College, Dublin influenced her professional and personal journey to the current position at the Defense Security Cooperation University.

Advent can be a bit of a blur for most people. And yet, if you can give it a moment it can really make an impact on these last few weeks before Christmas. It is a time of opportunity - or grace as we would say in the Catholic tradition.

Hands up if you’ve started your Christmas shopping? Even if you’re the last-minute type, I can almost guarantee you’ve got a list somewhere - even if it’s only in your head! You may even have managed to add a bottle of Shloer or a jar of cranberry sauce to the weekly shop.

Pope Francis has reminded us that our faith is a revolution. It always asks for something new, something radical. Do we inspire others in the way we practise and show up in our religious faith?

“Do you want to be a saint? Do what you have to do and put yourself into what you are doing.” - Saint Josemaría.

How often do we say to ourselves and others “I couldn’t do it because I didn’t have time?” It’s the oldest and dare I say, laziest excuse for not organising our time properly. It’s never true that I don’t have time - I have tons of it.

In this podcast episode, we explore humility as the virtue of greatness. Why did Saint Teresa of Avila describe it as the only truth?

In this episode, we speak with Sally Read, the well-known British poet. Sally was once an atheist and as she says herself, deeply anti-Catholic. Sally tells us about her conversion story and how her views on the teachings of the Catholic Church shifted over time and how she began to get closer to God.

Charles Feltman describes trust as “choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions” ... that is, what are you willing to risk with someone?

Katie is a television and news presenter for Shalom World, and the co-founder and presenter of Called to More, a Catholic apostolate based in Dublin with the mission of helping people know their faith as a way of life and relationship with God.

Trust has been described as “Choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person’s actions”.

When we are offended, aggrieved, wronged we win when we do the forgiving. We win when we become vulnerable and take the “hit” for someone else’s wrongdoing.

This blog is not an attempt to deal with any one issue, but to look at the bigger picture and perhaps try to answer the questions: Why is there suffering in the world at all? And what is God doing about it?

Right down through our history, Christianity has been a hallmark of Irishness. It inspired the rise of independence, resilience in the face of poverty and the combat of disease by missionaries on a global scale.

Peace and serenity is something we crave and yet it can seem so unattainable. In today's podcast, we talk about what kind of peace we should be striving for?

One of the benefits of dark evenings is that the night skies become more visible. Taking the opportunity on a clear night to step away from the street lights, and with a break in the clouds, the most dazzling array of twinkling lights in the black sky appear.

Mark Twain once said, “The 2 most important days in your life: The day you were born and the day you discover why.” Core values point to our 'why'. Without core values, we don’t know what we live for and we don’t know where we are going.