Mags Gargan visits a pioneering education project at the heart of a parish community
Month: December 2013
A year with St John’s Bible
Students from Patrickswell National School at the launch of ‘A Year with St John’s Bible’ at Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Limerick. Described as 'the American Book of Kells' this seven-volume work took a team of artists and scholars in Minnesota 15 years to complete, and is now the first complete handwritten Bible since the invention…
Pre-Famine bishops sparked hi-tech revolution
Bishops decision to educate through English language had far reaching results
Deacon ordained for Meath diocese
Another man on the road to priesthood
Dublin diocesan child safeguarding day
Day aims to raise awareness of work in child protection in the Church
Nightfever street mission spreading nationwide
The Nightfever street evangelisation outreach is spreading to cities across the country
Freedom from the prison of bitterness
Nelson Mandela encapsulated ‘forgiveness’, writes Andrew O’Connell
Christmas books
Peter Costello examines the season’s offerings
A Necessary Weevil
Downturn Abbey, by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, as told to Paul Howard (Penguin Ireland, €13.99)
Journeys spiritual and political
Brendan O’Regan takes the pilgrim trail

Mags Gargan
Peter Costello
Brendan O’Regan