Suffering is the flipside of love writes David Quinn Everyone at some point in their lives has to confront the awesome reality of suffering. It may come in the form of ill health, job loss or the breakup of a marriage. These things are bad when they happen to us personally but are often…
Pope Francis received a victim’s letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the Pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up, the letter’s author and members of Francis’s own sex- abuse commission have told the Associated Press (AP).…
The catechesis for the World Meeting of Families 2018 is now available on the Vatican’s website in five languages. On the Feast of the Lord’s Presentation in the Temple the catechesis was posted in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. There will be seven catechises, one for each month leading up to the WMOF18. Each…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Lourdes poses serious challenges for honest inquiring minds, writes Greg Daly There is something inexplicable about the miracles of Lourdes, according to the Nobel-prize-winning doctor who was one of three scientists credited with having discovered HIV. A non-believer, Prof. Luc Montagnier is currently based at Shanghai Jiao Tong University…
Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okkolo, pictured at St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry during a ceremony in which he gave a blessing to babies and children from the parish. Photo: Stephen Latimer
Over the 160 years since the world first heard of Bernadette Soubirous’s visionary experiences of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a grotto outside the town of Lourdes much has been has been written about the events of the summer of 1858 by both sceptics and believers. These events have also, however, given rise to two…
‘Enthusiastic’ and ‘committed’ were some of the words chosen to sum up the feelings of delegates at the end of a diocesan training day on the Amoris ‘Let’s Talk Family – let’s be family’ course. Over one hundred representatives of parishes in the Kildare and Leighlin diocese attended the day at St Patricks’, Carlow College…
Sacristan Birdie McLoughlin, Fr Paddy Mooney PP, and Pastoral Council members Breda Keaveney and Padraic Keady pose outside their church to publicise their ‘Drive Thru’ Ashes initiative from 8 am – 9.30 am at Glenamuddy Church on Ash Wednesday, February 14. It aims to facilitate people who are sick, advanced in years, or with very…
The power of a subordinate clause, one nuance within a sentence and everything takes on a different meaning. That’s the case in a recent brilliant, but provocative, novel, The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott. She tells a story which, among other things, focuses on a group of nuns in Brooklyn who work with the poor.…
Science of Life We would all like to be productive, to use our time well and to get lots of things done. I know I would – I tend to have a problem with procrastination. But effective techniques to enhance productivity are well known, if only we would use them. Today I will outline…
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