John Waters, Author at Catholic Herald

John Waters

Would I get 10 votes or 10,000? In Dún Laoghaire, impossible to say

February 13, 2020

It is a strange thing to belong to a country you had always imagined to be more or less normal – whatever that means – and then, all of a sudden, realise that it is anything but. For the past couple of weeks I have been doing something I never thought I would find myself

The stars come out for Repeal

May 17, 2018

Celebrity is a form of power and a kind of currency, a means of exchange. We need to remember this whenever we observe a film star on the way up, or a boxer on the way down, endorsing some cause with a high fashion quotient and potential for media attention. The media use celebrities to

What’s really at stake in the Irish referendum

February 08, 2018

It is sometimes difficult to tell whether the off-key British coverage of many Irish issues has to do with woolliness due to distance or something more ideological. A report in the Times last week asserted that a proposed new Irish abortion law “would lift the threat of criminal sanctions for women who illegally terminate their

Can Ireland rediscover its faith – as I did?

March 30, 2017

Irish society needs to look truthfully at the past it seems determined to bury. I am hopeful, but not especially optimistic for change in my lifetime

Can Ireland rediscover its faith – as I did?

March 30, 2017

When I think of my country and its relationship with Catholicism, I think of it, in what I hope is appropriate humility, as being about 25 years behind on the path I have travelled myself. In the middle 1970s, when I was 19 and 20, I began a period of vaguely oedipal struggling against the

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