Courtney McGrailDear Editor, The abortion industry in the US has been thrown into turmoil as secretly taped videos showing Planned Parenthood (PP) officials haggling over the price of body parts from aborted babies have gone viral on Youtube. The mothers of the aborted babies were not informed about their dead babies organs being sold. In one…
Month: September 2015
Appeal for response to Lough Derg questionnaire
Dear Editor, During my pilgrimage to St Patricks Purgatory in June this year I was given permission to carry out a questionnaire about the three-day pilgrimage for my theology dissertation. If any of The Irish Catholic’s readers have recently or in the past experienced the pilgrimage and would be kind enough to complete a questionnaire…
Music in the liturgy
Cathal BarryThe Church teaches that music forms an integral part of solemn liturgy, writes Cathal Barry
God is ineffable but not a stranger
Fr Ronald Rolheiser“God, as I understand him, is not very well understood.” A colleague of mine, now deceased, was fond of saying that. It’s a wise comment. Anyone who claims to understand God is deceived because the very first dogma we have about God affirms that God is ineffable. That means that we can know God, but…
How to get better at relaxing
Rest is an essential part of the natural rhythm God inbuilt into the world, writes Kate Middleton
A decorative accessory for the autumn
Autumn arrives in a flurry of crisp, colourful leaves, prickly horse chestnuts and rosy apples just waiting to be picked from the trees. Dress up bags and clothes with these felt apple wedges, just the accessory for autumn. For the apple wedges you will need: one sheet of bright green felt, one sheet of red…
New technology can make life more difficult
William RevilleIn 1930, in a beautifully written essay ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that within 100 years we would all be working a 15-hour week because of advances in technology, industrialisation and mechanisation. Alas, 85 years later, the reality for many of us is that advances in computing,…
Faith in the family
Bairbre CahillAs a family we are only beginning to get back into something that resembles a routine. The summer holidays are great but routine is certainly not a feature! As our children have got older we seem to have become busier. The three girls have had summer jobs and our son has had football or hurling…
Simple tips and tricks to transform your home
The popularity of home improvement TV shows has exploded – they’ve become somewhat of a guilty pleasure of late. There is something enchanting about seeing how a room can be transformed overnight by a lick of paint and an expert’s eye. Not everyone, however, is lucky enough to have a leading architect on hand to…
Lourdes made me grateful for everything I have
Hannah Browne finds a new perspective on faith during a school pilgrimage