Swiss Guards launch fundraiser to renovate Vatican barracks The Holy See penned a deal May 4 with the “Foundation for the Renovation of the Barracks of the Pontifical Swiss Guards in the Vatican”. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Jean-Pierre Roth and Stephan Kuhn, president and vice…
Sometimes you get a strong sense that mischief is afoot – that was certainly the case when I heard early last week that a draft of the US Supreme Court judgement on Roe v Wade had been leaked to the media. With leaks you have to figure out who benefits, and in this case the…
Children’s Corner If a person was to say that you couldn’t get wet despite an upside-down bucket of water being above your head, you might think they have lost their mind. But what happens when the bucket is spinning quickly in a circular motion? This experiment examines something people may have already experienced in their…
Cut glass accents, flowing gowns, tuxedoed toffs, billiard table lawns – it has to be Downton, doesn’t it? The 2019 feature went down a bomb with audiences. It had to be only a matter of time before a sequel hit the screen. Downton Abbey – A New Era (PG), penned again by Julian Fellowes and…
Notebook In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings there is a wonderful passage when the wizard Gandalf is face to face with Denethor, the ruler of Gondor. In the face of the threat of the evil Sauron, Denethor sees it as his task to defend his kingdom, and above all to keep the walls…
July 22 to 28, Newbridge College Theatre, Newbridge Co. Kildare “A bright gem in the literary world!” according to Patrick Samway SJ, this year the 34th G. M. Hopkins Festival is to be held. This is a very real triumph of poetry, art and music over world-closing circumstances. Poet Desmond Egan, the founder and moving spirit…
The Sunday Gospel Where is the risen Lord to be met? The liturgy each Sunday in this Easter season directs our thoughts to the various situations where the Lord is present and active in our midst. Over the weeks we have reflected on his presence in the mission of forgiveness, in the faith of those who do…
At a superficial level, the main takeaways from the assembly elections are: that a nationalist is now in-line to be the First Minister in a polity created to ensure a permanent unionist government; the SDLP received a terrible drubbing and that party is now on life support; the main winner is the ‘centre ground’ as…
Staff reporter Members of the Irish Defence Forces stationed in Lebanon as part of a United Nations UNIFIL peacekeeping mission, led by their chaplain Fr Piotr Delimat CF, joined with members of the Polish Armed Forced and their chaplain Fr Włodzimierz Skoczen – also participating in the mission – in a Way of the Cross…
1916 leaders a grain that produced ‘great harvest’ – Bishop Nash The leaders of the 1916 rising were the grain that produced “a great harvest”, Bishop Ger Nash said at the state commemoration service in Arbour Hill, May 4. “Easter in Ireland is forever imbued with the memory of 1916,” Bishop Nash said in his…
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