Sri Lanka’s top Catholic prelate has urged the country’s political leaders to make good on their promise to resign this week, and he’s voiced hope that a new government will be able to bring the South Asian nation out of its current woes. Speaking to Crux about the unrest that led Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and…
The Knights of St Columbanus and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre took part in the annual procession of the relics of St Oliver Plunkett which took place in Drogheda July 3. The procession, marched through the Co. Louth town from the Holy Family Church, Ballsgrove, to St Peter’s Church for Mass at 4pm. The…
Shapeshifting microrobots brush and floss teeth A shapeshifting robotic micro-swarm may one day act as a toothbrush, rinse, and dental floss in one. The technology, developed by a team at the University of Pennsylvania, is set to offer a new and automated way to perform the mundane but critical daily tasks of brushing and flossing.…
Anthony Gaughan A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove, by Elizabeth O’Toole (Lilliput Press, €15.00/£13.00) Elizabeth O’Toole’s memoir is a fascinating snapshot of Patrick Kavanagh in his later years, in very different circumstances than people often imagined him in. Kavanagh was born near Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, on October 23 1904. After attending the…
The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, which has been in power for 15 years, expelled 18 Missionaries of Charity from the Central American country on July 6. According to the newspaper El Confidencial, the nuns were taken by the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration and the police from the cities of Managua and…
Scott Richert, publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, said July 6 the Indiana-based Catholic publishing company would fill the void left behind by the closure of the domestic operations of Catholic News Service in January 2023 with OSV News. He made the announcement at the Catholic Media Conference in Portland and described the new venture as a…
Liam Fitzpatrick Personal profile Sleepless night-induced eyebags aside, most college students enjoy their first true taste of freedom in third-level education, seizing the opportunity to grow and develop before the ‘adult world’ whisks them back to reality. But for Michael Tierney, college caused him to “drift” from his Catholic upbringing, meaning he relied on Christ,…
Theology is an intimidating area for most Christians but it contains riches to reenergise the Church, Alister McGrath tells Jason Osborne Theology gets a bad rap in many corners of Christendom today. Some think it too difficult, others too obscure, while still more think it to be just plain, old boring. Are these attitudes towards…
The Parish of Newtownards and Comber, Co. Down, celebrated 150 years of worship in Our Lady of the Visitation Church, Saturday, May 29. Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor attended on the day, con-celebrating Mass with a number of priests and deacons of the diocese. Parishioners, former priests of the parish and friends from…
Left without a handkerchief, by Robert O’Byrne (Lilliput Press, €18.00/£16.00) The title of this erudite, elegant and elegiac book from ‘The Irish Aesthete’ blog writer Robert O’Byrne captures the essential “grand tragedy” that befell the Irish gentry in their “twilight”, to quote Mark Bence-Jones. Here O’Byrne takes advantage of a tight focus and a circumscribed…
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