A leading priest-theologian has hailed the role of Catholic education in helping Catholics in the North overcome decades of employment discrimination. Fr Niall Coll, who lectures at St Mary’s University College in Belfast, told The Irish Catholic that “Catholic education in the North can be rightly proud of its role in helping young people from…
The Central African Republic is “experiencing a season of hope”, according to a Carmelite missionary based in the capital city Bangui, who believes that Pope Francis’ November visit to the country “significantly contributed” to this. Fr Federico Trinchero, whose convent Notre Dame du Mont Carmel has housed more than 5,000 displaced people since civil war…
The Easter rebels realised the need for recognising spiritual realities as well as material ones, Bishop Denis Brennan of Ferns has said. “The 1916 Proclamation is explicit in its recognition of the transcendent,” Dr Brennan said at an Easter Monday centenary commemoration Mass in Enniscorthy, noting how, “it begins ‘In the name of God’ and…
Dear Editor, I recently read your article ‘Practising gratitude’ in the Family &Lifestyle section (IC 10/03/2016). I congratulate the author, Wendy Grace because I think it is an excellent article, and it gave me a lot to think about. I liked the helpful suggestions provided by Wendy for families and indeed individuals to get into…
“The security situation now seems out of control and people are forced to live in an atmosphere of fear” Exclusive Irish missionaries working with the beleaguered Christian minority in Pakistan have said a recent upsurge in violence has heightened fears and left the community extremely vulnerable. At least 72 people were killed and over 300…
Despite seeing terrible suffering, children’s hospital chaplain Sr Julie Buckley has never lost faith in God, writes Mags Gargan Sr Julie Buckley SMR is head chaplain at the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street in Dublin. Originally from Cork she started off her nursing training in the Richmond Hospital, in Dublin, before returning to Cork to…
Dear Editor, I am concerned to learn from the paper (IC 10&17/03/2016) that Tusla, the Government’s new Child & Family Agency, is putting pressure on the Boyle Family Life Centre (FLC) to abandon its Catholic ethos. The Boyle FLC may not be the only one amongst some 600 such centres largely financed from Catholic parishes…
Bad Queen Bess: Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Elizabeth I by Peter Lake (Oxford University Press, £35.00) It is often remarked that in modern Britain all that children learn of history are the Tudors and the Nazis. This is meagre diet, but there are universal truths to be learned…
Dear Editor, Cathal Barry in your edition of March 3 is clearly hoping that Fianna Fáil forms the next government because he feels the majority of that party is not in favour of amending the Eighth Amendment. He also quotes Dr Ruth Cullen of the Pro-Life Campaign as having the same opinion. I would not be too sure.…
The Easter season has a lot to offer the Church in Ireland today I rarely experience the kind of exhaustion that I experienced on Easter Sunday evening and on Easter Monday. Holy Week – particularly the days of the Triduum from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday – is a time of unparalleled intensity in the…
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