President Higgins’ view of post-independence Ireland is a caricature, writes David Quinn How should we remember 1916? What does justice to all the different strands of the Easter Rising? President Michael D. Higgins has spoken of the need for “ethical remembering”, by which he means a form of remembering that takes account of all the…
Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin launched a pocket guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation at the opening of the Door of Mercy in St Fintan’s Church, Mountrath, Co. Laois on Sunday. The guide, which has been supplied to every parish, is an accordion style leaflet that folds up neatly to fit in a wallet…
The Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail is hosting a community walk and talk to the Boheh Stone – a unique Neolithic feature in Co. Mayo – on Monday, April 18. This is a guided walk led by local archaeologists and is an opportunity to experience the amazing ‘Rolling Sun’ phenomenon, where the sun appears to roll down the…
A group of about 75 young people, including representatives from NET Ministries Ireland, Youth 2000 and Newman College, gathered in Tuam parish for a conference called ‘Days of Discipleship’ organised by a mission team from the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) in the US. FOCUS works on American university campuses, building young people into…
Greg Daly meets the head of London’s new Catholic research institute “If we’re serious about the New Evangelisation, questions about the transmission of religious faith, or disaffiliation or lapsation – which is the book I’m working on at the minute – then we have to pay very serious attention to sociology,” says Dr Stephen Bullivant,…
How successful the dream of the Rising has been realised can only be measured in terms of what kind of society we have now, writes Archbishop Diarmuid Martin Earlier this year RTÉ transmitted a television series about 1916 called Rebellion. It was a fictional re-enactment of the dramatic events of Easter Week 1916. It included…
It was a privilege to honour those who had kept the living flame of liberty alive, writes Fr Paul Murphy OFM Cap. On Easter Monday morning, the Capuchin Friary Church in Church Street, Dublin, played host to the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Chamber Choir Ireland in their most moving rendering of Mozart’s The Great Requiem.…
All relationships require work and commitment. It’s the same with prayer, writes Fr James Martin SJ Fr James Martin SJ Not long ago a young man who sees me for spiritual direction said his prayer life was unsatisfying. After asking what he meant, I asked the obvious question: “How often are you praying?” In response, he…
The freedom that the 1916 rebels fought for is not being extended to asylum seekers, writes Eugene Quinn The centenary celebrations of 1916 have prompted a reflection on where Ireland is one hundred years on, challenging us to reimagine what it means to be Irish and what we value as a society. April 10 marks…
The synod journey has been unfamiliar territory and there has been a sense of adventure, writes Bishop Brendan Leahy Since we began our synod process, as far back as December 2014, I’ve often been asked – why did I call a synod? The most immediate reason was that when I became Bishop of Limerick, I…
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