Cathal BarryThe Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) has warned that many one-parent families will be “hit hard financially” when the next stage of the Government’s One Parent Family Reform programme is implemented at the beginning of next month. From July 2, families who receive One-Parent Family Payments (OFP), where their youngest child reaches seven…
Month: June 2015
Loyalist flags erected outside Catholic church
Union flags were erected outside a Catholic church in east Belfast near the scene of increased violence in recent weeks. The flags were raised outside St Matthew’s Church on the Newtownards Road over the weekend by a group of men in a cherry picker. Houses in the nearly nationalist Short Strand were attacked with paint…
Killing is not Caring
Greg DalyA Dublin conference has heard that assisted suicide threatens the weakest among us, Greg Daly reports
Kilmore bishop wants Church to consider married priests
Female deacons should be part of the discussion
The Fractured Creation Debate
Peter CostelloCreationism is not a topic widely talked about in Ireland. It rarely intrudes into the public debate. But creationism presents both a false view of religion and of science. Seeming to reassure people it dangerously misleads them. It will be recalled that when the visitor centre at the Giant’s Causeway was opened a few years…
Waterford in Arms
A discussion of the revolutionary years in Waterford from 1912 to 1923 requires at the outset an appreciation of the extraordinary influence of John Redmond (1856-1918) on the city and county. Redmond represented Waterford in the House of Commons from 1891 to 1918 and led the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918. By his…
Heaven
The Church teaches that to live in Heaven is to be with Christ, writes Cathal Barry
The Eucharist is too profound to be fully grasped at first
Fr Ronald RolheiserChristian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, told this story of his first Communion. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family in France and on the day of his first Communion he said to his mother: “I don’t understand what I’m doing.” She answered simply: “It’s okay, you…
Avoiding sugar is the quickest way to shift excess weight
When making the effort to slash your sugar levels, there are a number of simple steps that will make it easier for you, writes Cathal Barry
Numbers in the News
50 The number of homeless and poor people led by Rome’s St Lucia parish, with financial assistance from Pope Francis, on a pilgrimage to see the Shroud of Turin on June 4. Parish priest Fr Antonio Nicolai said the Pope offered help to the pilgrims with “the conviction that, like the shroud, they represented the…