Staff Reporter A senior member of staff at Maynooth has resigned, reportedly over differences with colleagues about the future direction of the seminary. Fr David Marsden – who as vocational growth counsellor was a key member of staff charged with helping seminarians discern a vocation to the priesthood – is a trained psychologist specialising in priestly…
I was strolling through Dublin city centre recently, enjoying the warm balmy afternoon and dying for something to quench my thirst. It occurred to me that things had changed a lot since I had worked there many years earlier. Outside restaurants, brightly coloured tablecloths bedecked the tables and attractive young men and women rushed forward…
Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler (Bloomsbury, £20.00)
The Republic photographed by Seamus Murphy (Allen Lane, €32.00)
With our recent concentration on the local events in Ireland in 1916 most Irish people have overlooked the centenary of some of the events in the Great War itself. The recent commemorations of both the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of Verdun, both to be counted with the first day of the Somme (a…
Michael Kelly reflects on a notable visit to a “special place of devotion and pilgrimage” in the heart of Jerusalem
Emma Keenan describes how attending a Catholic school has set students on a positive path for life
“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…
Mother’s Day (12A)
For pro-European Catholics the last few weeks will have been dispiriting ones, with the ‘Leave’ side in Britain’s ‘Brexit’ referendum looking to be gaining in momentum, with just days until the June 23 poll. Peculiarly, it seems that online British Catholics of a more ‘traditional’ mould to the majority are themselves leaning heavily towards voting…
Maria Byrne
Peter Costello
Michael Kelly
Paul Gargan
Aubrey Malone