Mags GarganSeminaries need to better prepare future priests for living a celibate life according to a senior psychiatrist. Prof. Patricia Casey, who said she personally “had no difficulty with married priests”, rejected suggestions that compulsory celibacy was too difficult for priests. “Priests have done it for many years and it seems to me that only in…
Month: April 2015
We need consecrated persons who are confident and fearless signposts
Michael KellyEditor’s Comment by Michael Kelly
Re-founding religious life
Notebook
A different era
Courtney McGrailConsecrated life remains at the forefront of the Church’s pastoral outreach, writes Sr Pat O’Donovan
Serving justice
Religious all over the world are working to change the unjust social order, writes Sr Sheila Curran
Glimpses of Irish Religious in Education
Religious congregations are active across Ireland working to help the neediest and newest members of our society, writes Sr Eithne Woulfe SSL
Gift & task
The year of consecrated life should motivate us for mission, writes Fr Peter Rodgers
Human rights advocate honoured
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina with Sally O'Neill, a leading human rights advocate and Trócaire’s Head of Region for Latin America, based in Honduras, at a lunch to mark her retirement and honour her contribution to overseas development and human rights over almost four decades.
Govt accused of ‘unjust attack’ on family values
Cathal BarryThe leader of the Knights of St Columbanus has warned that the proposal to amend Article 41 of the Constitution is “an unjust attack on the family founded on marriage”. Supreme Knight Barry MacMahon said the proposals laid down in the Government’s Children and Family Relationships Bill “depart radically from the natural moral law” and…
Thank God for the prayer and witness of our religious – Primate
Archbishop Eamon MartinWe must ask ourselves what are the charisms and apostolates that will renew the faith in Ireland says Archbishop Eamon Martin