Naomi Watts is one of my favourite actresses, and her performance here as Princess Diana has its moments, but it has to be said that she doesn’t look that much like her. Maybe we’ve been spoiled in this department by the fact that Helen Mirren was a dead ringer for Queen Elizabeth in The Queen and Meryl…
Month: September 2013
Revisiting the illegal adoption case
Mary KennySometimes the best option is adoption, writes Mary Kenny
Over 1m sign petition to protect life
A European-wide petition calling for the protection of life from conception has reached one million signatures and aims to collect another 500,000 by November. One of Us is one of the first projects to utilise the facility of the European Citizens’ Initiative established by the Lisbon Treaty and it is the asking the EU…
Dublin champ grateful for ‘gift of faith’
Paul KeenanAll-Ireland champion footballer Ger Brennan has spoken of the “gift of faith” in his life. Fresh from his part in Dublin’s triumph at last Sunday’s GAA final, Brennan took to the airwaves to speak of his faith and his planned participation in Mission Month in October. Asserting his distinct sense of “a divine presence in…
Saving lives with ‘God’s needle’
As we approach Mission Month, Lily Gaynor describes life as a lay Christian missionary in West Africa.
New media and the new evangelisation
Two of the most searched items on the internet are pornography and religion. Questions are often raised about the Church and the internet. Throughout YOUCAT there are many reasons why young Catholics are ‘needed’ in the area of translating the message of faith into a language of their peers. Paul VI wrote about the need…
Reconciliation is key
The fact that peace is more than the absence of war is so self-evident it hardly seems worthwhile pointing out. Nevertheless, the truism bears repeating in the particular context of the Northern peace process. By any objective measure the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and the ceasefires that precipitated the accord have been a stunning…
‘Rebel priests’ may reinvigorate the Church
Open debate and free discourse are healthy, so maybe it’s good that we are witnessing “rebel priests”, such as Fr Iggy O’Donovan, Fr Gerard Moloney, Fr Tony Flannery and Fr Brian D’Arcy making their opinions known, even when this invites Vatican disapproval. I am not sure if the correct word really is “silenced”, since…
Dialogue between different faith traditions
Bernadette Sweetman explores using Share the Good News as a catechetical resource
Disappearing Roots
"Home is where we start from.” T.S. Eliot wrote that and it describes an experience that can be felt both as a freedom and as a heartache. I cite my own case: I grew up in a second-generation immigrant community on the Canadian prairies. My grandparents’ generation had been the first settlers in that…