Mags GarganProceeds from the film will go to the Saint Pio Foundation
Month: December 2014
Miriam is having a ‘mad hair’ day
Courtney McGrailMiriam O' Callaghan with Jack Kelly, Amanda Brown, Sophie Warren and Darren Kelly, just some of the children who will be taking part in Mad Hair Day in schools on December 12. This year World Missions Ireland is using the proceeds of Mad Hair Day to help provide vaccines for babies in the developing world.…
Limit priestless Communion services, bishops are urged
Cathal BarryWeekday Communion services in the absence of Mass should be discouraged
Kildare parish receives huge response to food appeal
Generous parishioners volunteer to help struggling families
When we can’t have Mass
Michael Kelly‘the Eucharist should only sparingly be separated from the celebration of the Mass’ writes Michael Kelly
Women in the firing line
John L. Allen Jr.A long-awaited Vatican report on women’s religious life in the United States is set for release on December 16 by the Vatican, writes John Allen
An unholy, cynical state of affairs in Sri Lanka
Paul KeenanThe forthcoming papal visit might be hijacked for political ends, writes Paul Keenan
Religious education in schools worked
Dear Editor, Politicians that suggest schools are not appropriate places for teaching religious education are not worthy of their positions. To maintain more time be spent on science, maths and languages, just to respond to economic demand, at the expense of their spiritual needs, is a very naïve mode of thought. Between the age of…
Ireland is no longer a Catholic country
Dear Editor, Archbishop Michael Neary has been the subject of some unwarranted criticism regarding his homily to the Association of Papal Orders in Ireland (IC 13/11/2014). He spoke not of the death rattle of Catholicism or of Christianity in Ireland, but the death rattle of Christendom in Ireland. The end of that “shared set of…
Ireland is experiencing a spiritual famine
Dear Editor, I think it is the unspoken pain of Archbishop Michael Neary’s recent homily to the association of Papal Knights that prompted me to write this letter (IC 13/11/2014). I would like to draw his attention to the heavenly message given to the Irish people at Knock, Co. Mayo in 1879 during a time…