TP O’Mahony was born in Cork in 1939. From 1967 to 1989 he was religious affairs correspondent with the Irish Press and thereafter with the Irish Examiner. His previous books include Why the Catholic Church Needs Vatican III (Columba Books, 2010) and Has God Logged Off? The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century (Columba Books, 2008) and The Politics of God (Veritas, 2023).