Dr Kevin McCarrollInsomnia or difficulty with sleeping is a common problem that has often multifactorial causes. At any one time, approximately 30% of the population are affected by significant insomnia with higher rates in older adults and in those with psychiatric disorders and certain medical and neurological conditions. Persistent sleep loss or poor quality sleep can cause…
Month: October 2015
Faith in the Family
Bairbre CahillI walked out of my back door into a world of wonder this morning. It was the first of the truly autumnal mornings. A heavy fog blanketed the town below us and even the wood behind our house was barely visible but there on the apple tree, the hedge and the raspberry canes were jewels.…
Keeping your diet on the right track
Cathal BarryEating healthily while traveling can be a real challenge. Regardless of whether the trip is for business or pleasure, it’s always difficult to stay ‘on track’ when you’re out of your daily routine. I’ve encountered such struggles on my travels back and forth to Rome recently to cover the Synod on the Family. Littered with…
The World of Books
Courtney McGrailBy the Books Editor
How Baptism is celebrated
The Church teaches that Confirmation and the Eucharist are the ‘summit’ of Christian initiation, writes Cathal Barry
Kickstart a healthier lifestyle
Mags GarganMags Gargan attends a seminar offering expert advice on how to improve health and well-being
Some spectacularly spooky Halloween decorations to make
Erin FoxHalloween is coming and it’s time to start making decorations. These five Halloween decorations are fast and easy, so you will have your home looking spectacularly spooky in no time. Folded bats: Draw half a bat on the back of some cereal card and cut out. Fold a piece of black card in half, place…
Only the truth can be pastoral
Dear Editor, “Church urged to include divorced and remarried Catholics in Eucharist” (IC 01/10/2015). This is a rubbish headline and it wouldn’t be a first in The Irish Catholic as it panders to the ‘have your cake and eat it’ brigade. No one better than Pope Benedict XVI to cut through such baloney with crystal…
An Irish biographer takes a look at Jesus
A Jesus Biography by Anthony J. Jordan (Wesportbooks, €17.50)
Free choice of individual separates them from sacramental life
Dear Editor, Austen Ivereigh writing about the current Synod on the Family (IC 08/10/2015), quite rightly states that the backdrop to the synod is “the massive collapse across the western world of support for the Christian understanding of marriage in culture and now law – as Ireland, and most of our families have witnessed at…