The Dublin diocese has teamed up with a top US Catholic university to establish a new centre for dialogue between the Church and society. Operations at the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason will begin later this year and will have a special focus on outreach to young people. The University of Notre Dame…
Fianna Fáil’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs has said he intends to press the Government on having the genocidal actions of so-called Islamic State (ISIS) referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Speaking to The Irish Catholic this week, and as the world marked World Refugee Day, Brendan Smith TD said Ireland “should be relentless” in…
Amnesty Ireland’s push for abortion in Ireland does not reflect the organisation’s historic values and is hurting its traditional role, according to members of the Kells Amnesty International Group. The group, which was founded in 1986, is to disband today (Thursday) in protest against Amnesty Ireland’s continued campaigning on the abortion issue. “It seems that…
In an article carried in The Irish Catholic of June 16, 2016, we reported on the President of St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Msgr Hugh Connolly taking sabbatical leave. The article went on to deal with matters entirely unconnected to Msgr Connolly’s leave including controversial allegations recently made about life in the seminary. Msgr Connolly has…
People grieve differently – and that applies as much to children as it does to adults. I remember when we were young teens, two of my cousins experienced a bereavement. Their reactions were polar opposites. One was loud and angry in his grief. The other was silent and withdrawn. Neither could understand the other’s reaction…
Mother’s Day (12A)
Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler (Bloomsbury, £20.00)
Emma Keenan describes how attending a Catholic school has set students on a positive path for life
Abortion reigns as the main topic of media controversy with Ray D’Arcy playing a central figure in last week’s viewing, writes Brendan O’Regan
“Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.” (J. Lubbock) Take time to enjoy your garden, but keep up the maintenance work. Keep…
Cathal Barry
Paul Keenan
Greg Daly
Bairbre Cahill
Aubrey Malone
Peter Costello
Brendan O’Regan
Paul Gargan