Priests, nun still missing after a month
Month: May 2014
‘Blasphemy lawyer’ murdered in Pakistan
Threats had been issued by fundamentalists
Quotes of the Week May 15
"Every school, and even the government, should hold mandatory courses on the value of education and the sanctity of human life." Auxiliary Bishop Savio Fernandes of Mumbai, India, reacts to new abortion figures for the city revealing a 10% rise in terminations to 30,117 in 2013, a record high. “We hope that this will…
We urgently need to talk about vocations
There are many who give little thought to promoting vocations
Relations between Ireland and the Vatican
Dear Editor, I wish to comment on Enda Kenny’s recent visit to the Vatican for the canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II. Mr Kenny stated that relations between the Catholic Church and the Irish State are now at a much better level than previously. It’s hard to believe this when you realise…
Voting for the right candidate
Dear Editor, In the short time left to polling day, I would like to urge as many of your concerned readers as possible to courteously engage with candidates or their canvassers on their attitude to the abortion legislation of last year as well as the Governments proposals on the matter of gay ‘marriage’. In regard…
That fatal day at Sarajevo
Peter Hegarty Writer and adventurer Tim Butcher set himself the task of getting inside the mind of an assassin, and has applied himself to it with verve, imagination, and a burning curiosity. He proudly recounts his discovery of the letters GP and a date, 1909, carved into a rock outside Princip's home village high in…
Books that made modern Ireland
Felix M. Larkin The idea behind this book is a good one and, as the editors – both well-known UCD academics – point out in their introduction, there is no convincing precedent for it in this country. They have sought, in their own words, “to come up with books which seemed to have had an…
The Word of the Street
This brief little book is a simply presented book with one simple aim, to make the word of God accessible and meaningful in the daily lives of his readers. A Dominican since 1959, he has served in many roles abroad and in Ireland, but is currently at the Biblical Institute in Limerick, where he is…
‘It is God who brought me here’
Newly ordained Deacon Conor McCarthy speaks to Martin O’Brien

Paul Keenan
Michael Kelly
Peter Costello
Martin O'Brien