John's Journal

Family summit ponders who else suffers when a son or husband goes to jail

• Aug 25, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

Dublin sights and sounds: Crux banned, Pope not selling, and burglary alerts

• Aug 24, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

Austrian cardinal on accountability for cover-ups: ‘The truth will set you free’

• Aug 23, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

Fantasies from Dublin about a populist alliance taking over the Church

• Aug 22, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

On pope’s Irish trip, question isn’t if he’ll meet victims but what happens next

• Aug 18, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

Trying to grasp how the ‘Troubles’ broke out in a city full of world’s nicest people

• Aug 17, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

FAQs on Pope Francis in Ireland, including size, pricetag and blowback

• Aug 16, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

As it turns out, there’s religious subtext to the Titanic too

• Aug 15, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.

John’s Journal: What might have been if Francis came to Northern Ireland too?

• Aug 14, 2018
• John L. Allen Jr.