This year, there are two small but heartening signs of encouragement for religious life
Month: February 2015
Love is more than a feeling
Wendy GraceThe word love is bandied around today so much that it can lose its meaning, writes Wendy Grace
Delicious recipes for Pancake Tuesday
Erin FoxLent is fast approaching which also means it’s time to get the pans out for Pancake Tuesday! Lent is about sacrificing luxuries to show our devotion to God, and Pancake Tuesday – or Shrove Tuesday – serves as a final day of indulging in goodies before 40 days of fasting. The name Shrove Tuesday comes…
Lent is an opportunity to rebalance our lives
Bairbre CahillFaith in the Family
Life’s little things
One Saturday morning, I resolved to help tidy my son’s bedroom – big mistake. Piled upon his bed I found: 12 ragged and much loved cuddly toys or ‘pets’ as he likes to call them, one toy samurai sword, three blankets, two odd socks, one cat shaped key chain, a bottle of water, one pocket…
Better for teens to be young, free and single
Maria ByrneA parent’s perspective
Time for new attitudes towards alcohol
Cathal BarryHealthy Living with Cathal Barry
Like My Fair Lady, but for slow learners
Aubrey MaloneKingsman: The Secret Service (16)
More one-sided debates on abortion
Brendan O’ReganAs an avid collector of ironies, I hit the jackpot last week. Liberal media commentators were horrified that Pope Francis didn’t see a problem with slapping children for corrective purposes, but actively argued for aborting more children by widening Irish abortion laws! The latest wave in this debate started Wednesday of last week with a…
Web continues to vibrate to Stephen Fry’s anti-God belief
Courtney McGrailFew topics have spurred as much debate among Christian circles online as Stephen Fry’s recent outburst against God on RTÉ’s Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne, in which he says that if he were suddenly confronted by God as a reality, he would hold him to account for the world’s suffering. Edinburgh-based Dominican Lawrence Lew…