Science of Life We all take the same journey through life – we are born, we grow old and we die. Today I will talk about the ageing process particularly from the 50s onwards, why our bodies dis-improve physically as we age and what to expect in old age. Average life expectancy is rising.…
Colm Fitzpatrick writes about a youth club like no other For forty years, a national youth organisation has continued to provide young people across Ireland the opportunity to grow, gain confidence, and create vital transformations in their own communities. Founded in 1978, No Name! Club was established to help deter young people away from…
Cardinal Francis George was once asked what he thought of the radical pacifism of people like Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan, prophetic figures who believed in absolute nonviolence. How can this be practical, he was asked, it’s utterly naïve to believe that we can live without police and without soldiers. This was his reply: the…
The Parish of Tynan and Middletown gathered on Sunday, April 8 to celebrate the rededication of St Joseph’s Church, Tynan after six months of renovations. St Joseph’s, affectionately known as Tynan Chapel, was built on the hill of Mullaghard (from the Irish mullach ard meaning high summit) in 1813 and is one of the oldest pre-Catholic Emancipation churches in the Armagh Archdiocese.…
Poland’s bishops said they no longer have enough clergy to minister to Polish people living abroad and urged emigrant Catholics to integrate more with the Church in other countries. “Even with a very large group of Polish priests, it isn’t possible to reach in a timely way every place where Poles are found,” said the…
How to defend the Faith without raising your voice: Conference Silence is not an option for Catholics in the public sphere, papal biographer Austen Ivereigh told a packed room in the Red Cow Hotel at this year’s The Irish Catholic national conference. Quoting Pope Francis’ observation that the cemetery is only place where there…
The Adoption Machine by Paul Jude Redmond – foreword by Clare Daly TD – (Merrion Press, €16.99). Finola Kennedy The sub-title of The Adoption Machine is ‘The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes and the inside story of how Tuam 800 became a global scandal’. The book also contains the author’s personal history.…
I Feel Pretty (12A) Namechecking the endearing Natalie Wood tune from West Side Story in its title, this comes to us with the oldest message in movies: it’s the inner person that counts in matters of the heart rather than the outer one. Renee Bennett (Amy Schumer) is a kooky IT worker who’s a bit on the…
Lincoln and the Irish: The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union by Niall O’Dowd (Skyhorse Publishing, €20.67/$24.99) Peter Hegarty Niall O’Dowd has an original take on the American Civil War: without the 150,000 Irish soldiers who served in the his armies, Lincoln’s Union would have lost. The Irish-American publisher emphasises…
Fr Vincent Sherlock The Notebook I got a message recently, one of those funny messages we so freely share with one another. It was a picture of two people looking at their smartphones and the caption ran: “I’m having a few people over to stare at their phones later if you want to come…
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