Chai Brady and Jason Osborne Healthcare chaplains have said they hope the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine will be the beginning of a new era of hope for patients and the wider community. A nurse in Belfast became the first person on the island of Ireland to get the vaccine on Tuesday – the feastday…
The View For the last 14 years, I have raised our children at home and educated them. It is wonderful, fulfilling, and often exhausting. I have a loving, supportive husband who – since the children were very small – has taken them almost every Saturday to allow me some time off and headspace. I like…
Catholic comedienne and mother of six Jen Fulwiler speaks to Ruadhán Jones about Catholicism and comedy Militant atheist, computer programmer turned Catholic comedienne and mother of six – Jennifer (Jen) Fulwiler has led a busy life. To say the least, it wasn’t how she expected it to turn out. But now, having just released an…
We should dream certainly but we should also be realistic, writes David Quinn Let Us Dream is the latest book by Pope Francis. More accurately, it is a distillation of conversations the Pontiff had with Catholic journalist and writer Austen Ivereigh, who will be familiar to many readers of this paper. Pope’s reflections Let Us…
Rather than cease operations in the face of this pandemic, Youth 2000 increased our ministry with young people writes Róisín O’Rourke One summer several years ago, I attended one of my first Youth 2000 retreats down in Clonmacnoise. It was Saturday evening during the healing and reconciliation service and I had received the Sacrament of…
The Vatican announced December 7 that Pope Francis will travel to Iraq in March 2021. He will be the first Pope to ever visit the country, which is still recovering from the devastation inflicted by the Islamic State. The four-day papal trip to Iraq March 5-8 will include stops in Baghdad, Erbil and Mosul. It…
Baroness Nuala O’Loan has said that a statement made by the Association of Catholic Priests advising that Christmas Masses move online was “overly cautious”. The ACP said last week that there is “alarm” in parishes regarding how Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses will be organised due to the traditionally higher number of people attending.…
We should urge both health authorities and pharmaceutical companies to make available vaccines in no way tainted by abortion and tissue collection, writes Dr Helen Watt Covid-19 vaccines have been hailed as the cavalry appearing on the skyline to save us all from a pandemic that, in combination with alarmed responses, has devastated countries around the…
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered an investigation into the forced conversion of women and girls from the country’s religious minorities, drawing praise from Christian aid groups. Christian Concern International Christian Concern, a group that advocates for persecuted Christians, said December 3 that many of the victims of forced marriages in Pakistan are minors,…
The perceived key to happiness today is to change the world, but in reality the solution is to be transformed yourself writes Jason Osborne St Maximus the Confessor held that the world is a reflection of man, and man is a reflection of the world, and that has certainly been my experience. As the world…
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