Hell is never a nasty surprise waiting for a basically happy person. Hell can only be the full-flowering of a pride and selfishness that have, through a long time, twisted a heart so thoroughly that it considers happiness as unhappiness and has an arrogant disdain for happy people. If you are essentially warm of heart…
Sophie Overall learns how a roadside encounter rerouted Fr Alan Neville’s life towards the Sacred Heart Missionaries
Catholic faith camps are helping Munster children to build relationships with Jesus, writes Rachel Beard
Dear Editor, How apt to see the photo of An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, under the heading of ‘Disconnected Catholics may experience God’s reality at Knock’ (IC 21/07/2016). After all, while claiming to be a practicing Catholic he had the abortion bill passed in the Dail. Now by what stretch of the imagination can anyone claim…
Dear Editor, As awful the act that claimed the life of the martyr Fr Jacques Hamel in France must be the recognition that Christian persecution has finally been visited (returned) to Europe in the most savage of fashions. That which our Christian brothers and sisters have endured in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria among other nations…
Dear Editor, Your coverage of clerical remuneration (IC 18/07/2016) was of great interest to many of your readers. What trade union would accept a situation where members with equal experience and qualifications were on 26 different pay scales? Indeed from any cursory reading of the New Testament it is clear that Jesus treated all his…
With a visit Saturday morning to the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Lagiewniki and then a Mass at Krakow’s sprawling Sanctuary of St John Paul II, Pope Francis paid homage to his storied predecessor Saturday morning and to St Faustina Kowalska, whose legacies hang over his Year of Mercy. Popes pay tribute to their predecessors…
A photo of slain Father Jacques Hamel is seen among fl owers at a makeshift memorial in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, France. Photo: CNS
Prayers for an end to terrorism “We come to you today to ask you to keep in peace the world and its people, to keep far away from it the devastating wave of terrorism, to restore friendship and instil in the hearts of your creatures the gift of trust and of readiness to forgive.” These were the words of Pope…
A jubilee Mass in St Malachy’s Dominican Church, Dundalk, celebrated by Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh to mark 800 years of the Dominican order, proved a triple celebration. Not merely did the Mass acknowledge the role of the Dominicans, who established themselves in Dundalk in 1777 from their 14th-Century base in Carlingford, in the area,…
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Courtney McGrail
John L. Allen Jr.
Paul Keenan
Greg Daly