Cathal BarryThe Pro Life Campaign has strongly criticised the European Commission over its decision not to take any legislative action to prevent EU funding of destructive research on living human embryos. On Wednesday, the Commission formally rejected the ‘One of Us’ petition which was signed by almost 2 million people from 20 EU Member States calling…
Month: May 2014
Worshippers massacred in CAR church attack
Paul KeenanFifteen dead as gunmen storm church in Bangui
Faith and the power of poetry
John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church by Mark S. Sweetnam (Four Courts Press, €65.00 hb / £52.99 hb)
Equality and difference willed by God
The Church teaches that men and women were both created in God’s image, writes Cathal Barry
Healing emotional wounds
Anthony Redmond Father Paul Murray OP is Irish by birth. He now works in Rome where he teaches at the Angelicum University. He is also a poet. There is so much of extraordinary value in his book, Scars, of both thought and poetry, that it’s difficult to know precisely where to begin. He deals with affliction,…
Poetry that is rooted in our very beings
John Donne’s poems move towards a genuine contact with Christ
Of Popes, pundits and politicians
Brendan O’ReganFrom European elections to the Holy Land visit
Vocations ministry is certainly tough but also essential
Promoting vocations is a challenge to be faced
The spoken word of God
Peter CostelloHoly Bible: NIV / New International Version, read by David Suchet, six MP3 CDs (Hodder & Stoughton, €50.00 / £39.99)
Chinese churches face wave of demolitions
Renewed drive against Christian communities