The Church of St Aengus, Burt, Co. Donegal: Celebrating Half century (1967-2017) ed. by Donal Campbell and others To mark the first 50 years of their church a group in Fahan, Co. Donegal, have produced a fine illustrated book which celebrates not just the church, its architect and its building, but the whole span of…
Teresa Whitington The Boy behind the curtain: notes from an Australian life by Tim Winton (Picador £16.99) When he was nine years old, Tim Winton travelled by car with his family from Western to Eastern Australia: from the city of Perth to the city of Melbourne. One of the institutions the family visited was the…
I have been a reader of books of travel and exploration since I was 10 or so – by which I mean real explorers and not the self-advertising egomaniacs so common today. Books by giants of science and endeavour, such as Marco Polo, Livingstone, Sir Richard Burton, Humboldt, Waterton (an old Stonyhurst boy) and others,…
Fr Vincent Sherlock He pulled in to get petrol. The back seat of his car was filled with bits and pieces from his home – the bits, over and above, what the van had taken away earlier that day. The young petrol attendant, seeing the packed car said: “Are you the new man?” The priest, telling the…
Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, the new Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, arrived at Dublin Airport on Monday where he was greeted by several Irish bishops including Cardinal Séan Brady. Archbishop Eamon Martin is currently on pilgrimage in Fatima and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is on summer vacation. Photo: John McElroy
The handover of the Mission Light from the oldest SVD priest in Ireland, Fr Norman Davitt, 70 years of priesthood (1947-2017), to the youngest, Fr Joseph Yang who was ordained last month.
The outdoor candlelit procession at Knock Shrine, during the opening night of the annual Knock novena on Monday. Photo: Stephen Farragher
A man in Caracas, Venezuela, walks past graffi ti that reads, ‘Down with Trump…rot’. Photo: CNS
EXCLUSIVE Irish missionaries have vowed that they will stay with the people of Venezuela in the midst of a deepening political crisis and widespread food shortages that has seen some people forced to scavenge through rubbish tips for food. This is despite the fact that one of the Irish Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC)…
Fr Andrew McMahon “I have no problem with civil partnership…I do think that marriage is separate…And I would be of the view that it doesn’t have to be the case for everyone, but the preferable construct in a society is the traditional family, and the State through its laws should protect that and promote that.…
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