Spring Legacy 2019 – Last Call to Action Chai Brady speaks to OLH about compassion and end-of-life care A hospice is not a hospital, it is place someone goes to live out the final phase of their life in peace and comfort with the support of friends, family and expert empathetic staff, says Ireland’s leading…
Students’ exam stress can be conquered if addressed, writes Hannah Harn Summer holidays are fast approaching, but students across the country are gearing up for their final exams, projects and leaving certs. For many, this means long days and late nights in libraries and at study sessions with their eyes locked on textbooks, computer…
One month after a fire destroyed the roof and spire of the famous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the Archbishop of Paris released an update on reconstruction efforts and the donations received thus far. Of the €1 billion publicly pledged in the emotional aftermath of the fire, only €13.5 million has been collected so far,…
A parent’s perspective I attended Mass recently in St Eustace’s Dominican church in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. The homily preached by Fr John Harris OP was one of the best I’ve ever heard. You could hear a pin drop as he painted a vivid description of the Gospel story where the apostle, Peter, jumps out…
Elise Harris Two of the heaviest-hitting cardinals with a hand in organising the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon have voiced concern about a priest shortage in the region, but shied away from offering concrete proposals for how to fix the problem such as the controversial idea of ordaining viri probati, meaning tested married…
Photographs can pierce your heart. The other day I happened upon a photo of one of the girls taken about two years ago. It transported me back to that balmy summer’s evening, when just she and I had driven her to the top of the cliffs together for some “special time”. A warm, fragrant breeze…
During the years that I served as a Religious Superior for a province of Oblate Priests and Brothers in Western Canada, I tried to keep my foot inside the academic world by doing some adjunct teaching at the University of Saskatchewan. It was always a once-a-week, night course, advertised as a primer on Christian theology,…
Green Fingers June, your garden is starting to peak. Beds and borders are full of colour and life. All the work you put into weeding and hoeing is now paying off. As shrubs and perennials fill out, there will be less and less weeding to do. Annual weeds are no longer a major problem…
Live While You Can: A memoir of faith, hope and the power of acceptance by Fr Tony Coote (Hachette Books Ireland, €15.99 / £13.99) Dancing to my Death with the Love Called Cancer by Daniel O’Leary (Columba Books, €16.99 / £14.99) It has often been said that in polite western society death is the…
By passing a bill to ban abortion in nearly all circumstances, the Alabama Legislature has recognised that abortion is “the extinguishing of a unique human life”, said the president and CEO of Americans United for Life. The law is thought likely to fall foul of the Constitution. “From conception to natural death, every single human…
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