Mindful Living Dr Noel Keating Meditation brings considerable practical benefits to those who take up the practice and persist with it. But it also gives rise to deeper, spiritual fruits – it promotes human flourishing and an attitude of compassion and service to one another and to all of creation. The practical benefits of…
A recently commissioned painting of Trinity College graduate Blessed John Sullivan SJ was unveiled in the university yesterday, to mark his beatification. John Sullivan, who was beatified in 2017 in Dublin, grew up in the Church of Ireland, and was a graduate and gold medallist in Classics. While studying Law in London subsequently he became…
The Rosary Priest: A Biography of Patrick Peyton CSC by Tom Mulligan (Veritas, €15.00) I had the privilege of meeting Fr Patrick Peyton, CSC. A handsome man, standing at six feet four inches, he was a refreshingly simple person. And yet there was an aura about him. It was the same aura one sensed in the…
More than 1,000 people marched to “save” a Donegal hospital over the weekend, with a local priest saying “we were on fire”. The march on March 23 was the second organised after plans were announced in 2016 to build a new 130 bed centre in Letterkenny. Fr John Joe Duffy, Chairperson of the Save our…
The Church may hold the keys to reviving civic society, a top Anglican theologian tells Greg Daly “Catholic social teaching,” wrote the Guardian columnist Andrew Brown some years ago, in a column otherwise largely critical of the Church, “and the attempts to produce an economics centred around the needs of humans, rather than of…
The Border: The legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics by Diarmaid Ferriter (Profile Books, €15.99 / £12.99) Felix M. Larkin On the very first page of this book, Prof. Ferriter speaks of the Border being “imposed” on the island of Ireland – by implication, against the will of the people of the island. This reflects what…
The professional body for doctors in the UK dropped its traditional opposition to assisted suicide, despite a poll that found a majority of its members remain opposed to the practice. The Royal College of Physicians declared it has adopted a policy of neutrality, although a majority of doctors said they were against assisted suicide. In…
Personal Profile After years of seeing the goodness of the Franciscans and their work in the community, an 86-year-old radio DJ is delighted he followed the religious path. Believed to be the oldest man on the radio Fr Cletus Noone, who has a show called Noone at Night on Saturdays at 9pm, recently celebrated…
Most of us have been raised to believe that we have right to possess whatever comes to us honestly, either through our own work or through legitimate inheritance. No matter how large that wealth might be, it’s ours, as long as we didn’t cheat anyone along the way. By and large, this belief has been…
‘Special attention’ for migrants at Francis’ Morocco visit Pope Francis wanted to go to Morocco in December to draw attention to the need for international cooperation in assisting migrants and in alleviating the situations that force people to seek a better life outside their homeland. Protocol dictated that he could not fly to Marrakech just for the United Nations meeting on migration,…
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