Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape Manchán Magan (Gill Books, €19.99) To the country folk of Ireland even smallest piece of land is important, and today as in the past can give rise to bitter conflict. Witness J. B. Keane’s classic play The Field. This attitude often carries into the city.…
Frank Duff’s house opens for Culture Night The house of Servant of God Frank Duff will be open to the public for Culture Night on Friday, September 23. The house on Morning Star Avenue has been preserved to maintain its original look and contents since Blessed Duff died in it in November 1980. Frank Duff…
The heavy exhale. The almost lifeless body beneath the covers. You beg, you plead, you offer the ultimatum that threatens a loss of phone or PlayStation. Slowly their overtired, hormone-driven corpse emerges from the darkness, bloodshot eyes rolling back in their heads as they make their way to the bathroom in hopes of being presentable… for…
Social media like Instagram and Tiktok are allowing the occult to spread and mutate as never before Esmé Partridge tells Jason Osborne The internet in 2022 continues to provide ever-new frontiers; it truly is a wild-west that has yet to be fully mapped out and understood by those who inhabit it. While there are the…
During nearly five months of captivity in Burkina Faso, Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson wondered aloud where God was hiding in the midst of her isolation and loneliness. Then, in an instant, she looked down at her feet, where one of her toenails had been battered and bloodied during a harrowing post-kidnapping motorcycle ride deep into…
The Saint Mary’s Book of Christian Verse Chosen and introduced by Edward Short , with a foreword by Dana Gioia (Gracewing, £20.00 / €23.50) Edward Short is a writer and teacher who lives in New York City, and is already well known for his books relating to St John Henry Newman. This book sees itself…
Thousands attended the March for Life in Dublin on Saturday with attendees walking from St Stephen’s Green to Leinster House to call on the Government to address the large increase in abortions in Ireland as well as to push for positive alternatives to abortion. Eilís Mulroy of the Pro Life Campaign, organisers of the march,…
Parts of the world we barely think about have an importance we in Ireland don’t appreciate writes David Quinn One of the Pope’s fiercest critics is Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan, the vast landlocked central Asian country which Pope Francis visited last week. Bishop Schneider’s criticisms of the Pope are often…
In a UN submission, Religious warn of Ireland’s failings in protecting the rights of children and urge improvement, writes Ruadhán Jones In a comprehensive joint submission, a number of Irish religious orders and some civil society groups have raised concerns about Ireland’s implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The wide-ranging…
Personal Profile When Bro. Richard Hendrick OFM Cap. was in his teens, he wanted to study zoology, the scientific study of animals. Instead, God called him to a new contemplation of nature in the Franciscan tradition, one Bro. Richard is keen to share with the rest of the world. Bro. Richard began to research, visiting…
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