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,…
With a simple tap, Pope Francis joined Instagram and quickly set a record for gaining one million followers. The launch of the “Franciscus” account March 19, the feast of St Joseph and the third anniversary of the formal inauguration of his papacy, was preceded by huge media coverage. But still, he hit the million-follower mark…
A troubled nation may face more testing times, writes Paul Keenan The dying days of March proved to be a dreadful period for the Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On March 20, a much-respected Assumptionist priest, Fr Vincent Machozi, was gunned down in his parish in North Kivu Province in the east…
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…
This Easter was a peaceful and hopeful one for Christians in the north of Iraq and Baghdad, one of the city’s bishops has said. Christians gathered in “crowded” churches to participate in liturgies “with joy and without any incidents of violence”, Bishop Shlemon Warduni, Chaldean auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, said. Themes Holy Week services with…
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…
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…
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…
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