Paul KeenanThe Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has called for a massive show of support for its National Vigil for Life next month against “political promise-breaking and groupthink” on the issue of abortion. As it gears up to welcome busloads of participants from all parts of Ireland for the May 3 event, a spokesperson for the PLC…
Month: April 2014
The invisible presence on that State visit
Mary KennyThe Catholic Church was notably absent
Lay voice more vital than ever to Church renewal says Bishop
Cathal BarryLaity can’t be reduced merely to a ‘plan B’
Irish Times journalist in Twitter row
Journalist John Waters has accused The Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, Patsy McGarry, of allegedly using an anonymous social media account to launch messages against him. Mr McGarry has declined to comment. According to Mr Waters, the @Thomas2805607 Twitter account was the source of online messages mocking his recent action against RTÉ in the wake…
Saving a lost soul: scenes from Irish clerical life
Peter CostelloEamon Maher Generations of Irish students, myself included, had a novel by Francis MacManus as an optional text on the Leaving Certificate English syllabus. The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin just over 70 years ago, in 1943 by the Talbot Press. It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels…
The Mystical history of the Easter Egg
The World of Books
Politicians of faith need to show moral courage
Nuala O’LoanMuch has to be done to sustain peace
Germany calling Ireland
Joe Carroll People who listened to German Radio’s propaganda broadcasts to neutral Ireland during World War II must now be a small number. They began as a weekly talk in Irish but expanded to broadcasts in Irish and English, often using Francis Stuart (the novelist who was married to Sean MacBride’s half-sister Iseult) who was teaching…
Contemplating the Incarnation
Anthony Redmond Fr Daniel O’Leary is a well known Irish priest, author, teacher and preacher living in England. Over the past number of years, I have read and reviewed a few of his books, among them Travelling Light, Begin with the Heart, and Unmasking God. He is a truly wonderful and inspirational writer, and his…
The Cross on Easter Sunday
The cross is an inspiration and a challenge