Clergy cannot rely solely on the internet to reach young people on the peripheries, Waterford and Lismore’s bishop has said. In response to online initiatives which intend to educate lay people about the Faith, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan said that although the internet is “a space inhabitated by the younger generations”, proper formation requires being around…
If the success or otherwise of missionary activity can be judged by whether missionaries are able to raise up people to take their place, Ireland’s Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, generally known as the OLA Sisters, can be very proud of what they have done. Sr Janet Nutakor OLA, currently working with the…
This week I thought I’d concentrate on my three favourite weekend religious shows. Last Friday night it was a relaxing Leap of Faith (RTÉ Radio 1), when presenter Michael Comyn covered ‘Aifreann’, a new Irish language Mass setting with music composed by Kevin O’Connell and premiered in the Pro Cathedral last Sunday. This was a…
First Man (PG) I’ll never forget the night in 1969 when I sat transfixed in front of a television set watching Neil Armstrong landing on the Moon. I ran outside the house to look up at the Moon itself, marvelling at the fact that it was the same as the one on the television. Now there was…
Fr Conor McDonough One of the consequences of the Brexit negotiations and the possibility of a ‘hard border’ between the North and the Republic of Ireland is the resurgence of the idea that Ireland and Britain, or, more narrowly, England, are eternally in opposition, with the latter typically dominating. This opposition is a major element…
Church charity Trócaire are concerned for the “poor and vulnerable” in Pakistan after getting a letter from their government requesting they cease operations in the country. The letter, which they received earlier this month, asked that Trócaire stop operating in Pakistan within 60 days. It provides an opportunity to re-apply for registration, but only after…
The future of Lebanon’s long-standing tradition of Catholic education is at risk because of a controversial law governing teacher salaries. Salary increases for teachers in the private school sector are mandated in a law that took effect in August last year. As a new school year unfolds, school administrators are struggling with how to pay…
The Masses of Seán and Peadar Ó Riada: Explorations in Vernacular Chant by John O’Keefe (Cork University Press, €49.00) Music and Society in Cork, 1700-1900 by Susan O’Regan (Cork University Press, €39.00) Ina Boyle 1889-1967: A Composer’s Life by Ita Beausang, with an essay on the music by Séamus de Barra (Cork University Press, €29.90)…
Bodenstown Revisited: The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone, its monuments and its pilgrimages by C.J. Woods (Four Courts Press, €50.00) Bodenstown is near Sallins in Co. Kildare. Here in the local cemetery Theobald Wolfe Tone was buried in 1798, after cutting his throat on being refused a soldier’s execution. Ever since it has been the…
The Catholic Church must be a place of justice and mercy, and its members must be catalysts for change, some young observers have said at the Synod of Bishops in the Vatican. “In order to teach justice and mercy to our young people, the Church must first be a place of justice and mercy for…
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