Christ is risen, and this should be reflected in our daily life and activities, writes Jason Osborne Christ is risen! Oftentimes we partake in the Lenten preparation and the drama of Holy Week but forget about it all as soon as Easter Sunday turns to Easter Monday. As Catholics however, not only are we obliged…
Efforts by pro-choice activists to make at-home abortions permanently available are driven by ideology “not how can we help the mother and baby”, say the Life Institute. In March, the Department of Health confirmed at-home abortion services would end after the pandemic. Pro-abortion groups, such as the National Women’s Council (NWCI), are pressuring the Government…
Catholic schools’ representatives have said schools are “delighted” as all classes return for the first time, though challenging times remain ahead. Mr Seamus Mulconry of the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA) said schools know “an hour in the classroom is worth a week online”. “Schools are delighted and it’s far easier to have a…
Covid-19 has further pushed leprosy communities to the back of the queue and out of mind, writes Jason Osborne Leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, is a disease our Faith is well acquainted with, God himself healing both the disease and the social stigma around it during his embodied time among us on earth. Unfortunately, the disease…
Two skulls and a cluster of other bones discovered in the attic of a house in the Welsh town of Holywell have been identified as Welsh priests and martyrs Philip Evans and John Lloyd. The bones were discovered in 1858, but it wasn’t until recently they were identified, by Jan Graffius, curator of the Stonyhurst…
Seeing everything through the lens of winners and losers makes losers of everyone, writes Michael Kelly “Them ‘uns have everything and we have nothin’” was the rather colloquial summary of a local Protestant woman when asked by BBC Radio Ulster why her young co-religionists were setting fire to their own communities. The ‘them and us’…
Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs by Fr Seán McDonagh SSC, with a foreword by Karlin Lillington (Messenger Publications, €19.95/£18.95) The Russian quasi-mystic and film director Andrei Tarkovsky was reputedly terrified about the implications of robots. He thought The Terminator, though by his own account a mediocre film, pushed “the frontier of cinema as art” for…
As parliamentarians debated last Thursday a bill to legalise euthanasia, French bishops spoke out against the proposal. A bill to institute a right to “a free and chosen end of life” was debated in the National Assembly, the lower house of France’s parliament, April 8. “The solution when a person faces suffering is not to…
A hurling great tells Seán Ryan how a long stint in hospital has led to a deepening of prayer “Illness weakened my body, but it strengthened my Faith.” That’s how former Cork hurling star, Kevin Hennessy, sums up the transformation in his life from sport star to cripple. Between 1979 and 1992, he played in…
Letter from Rome When I was a precocious sophomore in high school, I once barged into the office of the Capuchin priest who was in charge of our religion curriculum to inform him that I had serious intellectual reservations about the Catholic Faith, and I found the answers being supplied in class unsatisfying. Fr Mike…
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