Susan Gately writes on the Capuchin doorkeeper who teaches us ‘I can’t do everything but I will do what I can’. The Irish heritage of a Capuchin priest beatified last weekend in Detroit made him who he was, according to Fr Tom Betz OFM Cap., St Augustine, Pittsburg’s Capuchin Provincial Minister. Fr Betz was speaking…
Living well is a lifelong process, but we have to know what we are aiming at, writes David Quinn In an excellent address to a conference on priestly formation in Maynooth at the weekend, Archbishop Eamon Martin made a passing reference to the volumes of work that have been written in the years after…
Limerick: Pupils from Doon CBS Primary School display their shoeboxes for the Christmas Showbox Appeal.
Letters from Aleppo by Fr Ibrahim Alsabagh (Columba Press, €14.99) Anthony Redmond I have a Syrian friend whom I met in Dublin 15 years ago when he was a student of English. He returned to Syria before the terrible war began in 2011 and he is now married there with two small children. We keep in touch…
Nyumbani: Minister Coveney and Sr. Mary Owens, Executive Director of Nyumbani, with the children of Nyumbani.
‘So are they all, all honourable men’ The controversy that has been aroused by Bob Geldof (or should that be Sir Bob?) handing back his deed as Honorary Freeman of the City of Dublin at the City Hall has focused public attention on just what this title is. Turning as I always do to…
Dear Editor, It was lovely to see at the weekend Pope Francis hosting a lunch for some of Rome’s vulnerable and needy people. It’s a beautiful witness to the Gospel imperative to reach out to those who society forgets. While the critics of the Church will often point to what they perceive to be the…
If I settle down to Sunday night TV I want something cosy, undemanding, even uplifting, but that’s not how it turned out last weekend. Would You Believe? (RTÉ 1) returned with impact last Sunday night with the first episode in a two-part exploration of the subject of evil. Mick Peelo’s report didn’t contain any blinding…
Vatican: People take photos as Pope Francis arrives to celebrate Mass marking the first World Day of the Poor in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Young people urged to take it easy with sport Too much sport can be damaging for teenagers, a leading surgeon has warned. Patrick Carton, a hip consultant at Waterford’s Whitfield clinic, has revealed he has been operating on 10 patients a week with hip problems caused by arduous training regimes. Some of these patients have…
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