A cloud of darkness seems to be hovering over the land of the free and home of the brave, writes Fr Thomas Rosica CSB The last presidential election campaign in the United States was a divisive, bitter, toxic, embarrassing and polarising experience for many in the US and for people around the world, leaving…
Life coach Eileen Hopkins advises Colm Fitzpatrick about tackling New Year resolutions ‘New Year, New Me’ is a modern aphorism so entrenched into Irish society that personal transformation in January has become a sobering thought for many. From reading more and taking up gardening, to quitting smoking and finally making use of that harrowing…
Science exhibition to draw the whole family For tech lovers and would-be scientists alike, the I WISH (Inspiring Women in STEM) Showcase event combines talks and interaction with female role models (superstars and graduates) with exhibition spaces where companies engage students directly through live experiments and demonstrations of what they actually do. I WISH is…
Transition Year students of Le Chéile Secondary School, Dublin have been performing a tribute to the famous rock band Queen this week with a show entitled ‘We Will Rock You’. This is the first ever musical staged at the four-year-old Catholic secondary school set up by the Le Chéile Trust, which includes live performances of…
Artists: Their Lives and Works foreword by Ross King (Dorling Kindersley £25.00) Michael Collins We admire the work of artists and are in awe of their magnificent creations. Their deftness with pencil, charcoal and paintbrush capture a moment and turn it into a timeless masterpiece. In this book the editors have produced an elegant volume which…
Over the Christmas holidays our daughter Méabh had a few friends from college visiting. One came up from Clare, another from west Donegal. To my delight they spoke Irish – all the time. Now Méabh had done all her schooling through Irish but was never great at chatting with me in Irish. Somehow Irish was…
A scripture scholar tells Susan Gately about her journey from Protestantism to the Catholic Church A woman who started life as a Reformed Presbyterian “with a Baptist mother” and followed three of her family into the Catholic Church, gave the keynote address at the inaugural meeting for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Dr…
We live in a world of deep divisions. Everywhere we see polarisation, people bitterly divided from each other by ideology, politics, economic theory, moral beliefs, and theology. We tend to use over-simplistic categories within which to understand these divisions: the left and the right opposing each other, liberals and conservatives at odds, pro-life vying with…
Dear Editor, With reference to your front page article about exorcists in Ireland (IC 18/01/18) I have to confess to considerable shock that a spokesperson from the Catholic Communications Office at Maynooth would state that “…this office has not been made aware of any recent cases of exorcism in Ireland in recent years”. That is…
Sinéad Healy Homelessness in Ireland is at the point of crisis with over 8,500 homeless in the Republic of Ireland. Depaul now helps 915 people that are homeless or at risk of homelessness every single day across Northern and the Republic of Ireland. The organisation has grown significantly in the Republic of Ireland to meet the…
Colm Fitzpatrick
Bairbre Cahill
Susan Gately
Fr Ronald Rolheiser