Mags GarganArmagh Diocesan Vocations Commission are presenting three more evenings of “Great People, Great Stories, Come and Listen” during the autumn. The first evening takes place on Thursday, October 8 in Kilsaran Legion of Mary Centre at 8pm. Speakers are Sr Julie McGoldrick and Fr Ryan McAleer. On Thursday, October 15 at 8pm in The Synod…
Month: September 2015
Beware of ‘treachery’ at the synod
Courtney McGrailDear Editor, As we approach next month’s Synod of Bishops on the family, one needs to be careful which side one chooses to take in all this. In relation to the Kasper proposal, Cardinal Kasper and others are putting forward a proposal for changes to allow divorced and ‘remarried’ Catholics to receive Holy Communion and…
The Secrets of the Great Silence
When Silence Speaks. The Spiritual Way of the Carthusian Order by Tim Peeters (Darton, Longman and Todd, £12.99)
Move it or lose it
Dr Kevin McCarrollWe are all familiar with the adage in medicine that “prevention is better than cure,” a thought that should keep all of us focused on doing the right things to stay healthy. While it may not be as easy as ‘eating an apple a day’ to keep the doctor away, optimising our health through lifestyle…
God encompasses and embodies all complexity
Fr Ronald RolheiserRecently, at an academic dinner, I was sitting across the table from a nuclear scientist. At one point, I asked him this question: Do you believe that there’s human life on other planets? His answer surprised me: “As a scientist, no, I don’t believe there’s human life on another planet. Scientifically, the odds are strongly…
Govt urged to wake up to homelessness ‘emergency’
Greg Daly70 new families need charities’ help every month
Resettlement not displacement was the driver
Dear Editor, Mary Kenny seems at sea with the details of the displacement of Germans from eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War and its aftermath (IC 17/9/15). Whereas many Germans and people of other nationalities fled red army advances towards the war’s end and immediately afterwards, the Allies decided to resettle…
The ‘Ask Consent’ campaign is an indictment of sexual ‘liberation’
David QuinnWe risk turning sex into a legal transaction, writes David Quinn
Parish ‘cluster mission’ to prepare for future Church
Cathal BarryAn upcoming ‘cluster mission’ in Galway is set to give parishioners a taste of what the future holds for the Church in Ireland. Glenamaddy and Williamson Parish Priest, Fr Paddy Mooney, said the mission will “give people a greater awareness of their need to travel to neighbouring parishes” for Mass in a time with fewer…
While Europe wavers, Rome welcomes migrants
The European Union “was born to knock down walls, not to build them” according to Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, criticising Hungary’s erection of a border fence to regulate the movements of asylum seekers. “If you stop the flow in that direction, we have to pose the problem of how to respond to the urge…