Dennis Sadowski As an author and lecturer, Fr Donald B. Cozzens, a Cleveland diocesan priest and former seminary rector, shared candid insights on the priesthood, challenging the Church to confront clericalism and renew its structure. Despite criticism privately and publicly from fellow clergy, Fr Cozzens maintained that it was his love of the priesthood that…
The Pro Life Campaign has criticised the Minister for Health’s statements Wednesday outlining the scope of the three-year review of the abortion law, saying he is approaching it with a view to “radically expanding” terminations.
It’s Christmas again, that lovely season when we can forget for a while the troubles of the year. For Christians it is the greatest day of the year, when God broke into human history and walked among women and men. In times of war and hardship people have always found a way to remember the…
Frank Duff – Celebrating his life and legacy Frank Duff valued the virtue of reliability above all others, writes Ruadhán Jones Unique; courageous; friendly; loving; reliable. Read this list, and consider which of these you would like to be remembered by. They are none of them bad things. No doubt the glamour of courage or…
Frank Duff was a truly Catholic revolutionary, in his own quiet way, writes Fr John S. Hogan In a 1943 correspondence with Fr Michael Toher, a collaborator with Frank Duff in the foundation of the Legion of Mary, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid offered his assessment of Frank Duff’s character. The archbishop accepted that Frank was…
He was part of a new generation of public servants in the new State, writes Finola Kennedy W hen EP McCarron, former Secretary of the Department of Local Government and Public Health, died in 1970, Frank Duff wrote an Appreciation in The Irish Times. He said that his aim was to cast a true light…
The Irishman had key insights about the lay vocation ahead of his time, writes Fr John Harris OP In this age of synodality within the Church, it is opportune for us to recall the importance of the laity in the Church and there is no better champion or challenger of this cause that Frank Duff,…
Frank Duff treated women with absolute equality in his relationships and his views, writes Dr Evie Monaghan Frank Duff’s outreach to marginalised women has long been recognised. Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Legion of Mary, the organisation founded by Duff and a group of lay women in 1921, was its mission to ‘street…
Legion of Mary president Mary Murphy tells Ruadhán Jones about the Legion’s growth and desire to convert the world The Legion of Mary’s beginnings were, as founder Frank Duff put it himself, quite inconspicuous. A small group including Duff gathered on September 7, 1921, in Myra House on Francis St, the date which marks the…
Fr Bede McGregor OP on Frank Duff’s vision of a laity called to sainthood On September 7 2021, the Legion of Mary celebrated 100 years of existence. Of course, we will also be celebrating the life and message of the Founder of the Legion, the Servant of God Frank Duff (1889 – 1980). In this…
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