Brendan O’ReganUsually you have to wait for the new season to find some good new dramas, but BBC One got off to an interesting but early start Tuesday of last week with an intriguing new crime drama, One of Us. It was all a bit confusing at first with an array of seemingly unrelated characters, but…
Month: September 2016
Woody Allen on auto-pilot in bittersweet charmer
Aubrey MaloneCafé Society (12A)
Searching for a world without limits
Fr Ronald RolheiserWhen I was a child there was a popular song whose chorus repeated this line: “Everyone is searching for Utopia.” And we all are. Every one of us longs for a world without limits, for a life where nothing goes wrong, for a place where there’s no tension or frustration. But it never happens. There’s…
A Journey of Discovery
Courtney McGrailFr Joe Murphy reminisces with Rachel Beard on a life spent travelling the world and serving God
Denying environmental degradation akin to ‘flat Earth’ devotion
Dear Editor, Interesting that there exists in many countries branches of an organisation known as: The Flat Earth Society. They believe that it is possible to fall off the edge of the world and vanish into emptiness. They base their belief it seems, at least in part, on the Gospel instruction where the Lord commanded…
World News in Brief
Survivor group ‘plotted’ against priest – Judge A judge in the US state of Kansas has criticised the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) for refusing to comply with a court order to reveal emails and texts relevant to allegations of abuse made against a priest. District Judge Carol Jackson ruled on August 22 that SNAP had plotted against…
Faithfulness is no barrier to compassion
Dear Editor, Over the past couple of weeks, I have read numerous articles in relation to the recent controversy surrounding Maynooth seminary. These have included speculation regarding the priesthood and what form it should take in this time. There are some who believe that our more recently ordained priests are of a more traditional mindset…
South Africa’s new beginnings
Paul KeenanVoters have delivered a new political landscape, writes Paul Keenan
Francis says the people have spoken: ‘Two Popes are just fine’
John L. Allen Jr.Sometimes leaders learn more from crowds than from polls about how passionately people are feeling something, and in his preface to a new biography of Benedict XVI, Francis suggests crowds have taught him that ordinary Catholics are just fine with the two-Pope arrangement. Arthur Schlesinger once said that President John F. Kennedy could look at…
Birthday for Blessed Teresa
A member of the Missionaries of Charity kisses the tomb of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata on August 26 in celebration of her 106th birthday. Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, will be canonised at the Vatican on September 4. Photo: CNS