Dear Editor, Perhaps those who engaged in the synod process who had little interest in missionary work should read stories such as the one on your front page [The Irish Catholic – May 4, 2023]. There were lovely images of African women celebrating the Irish sisters who travelled to Cameroon and set up schools, both…
It’s an Editor’s worst nightmare. A newspaper publishes an article which turns out to have been largely written using artificial intelligence and the accompanying photograph claiming to be the ‘author’ is also a hoax. Just how could The Irish Times get it so wrong and publish an article accusing Irish women interested in fake tan…
Bikers hold annual memorial service The Annual Bikers Memorial Mass was celebrated in a packed Sacred Heart Church, Clones, Co. Monaghan, on May 5. Fr Stephen Joyce, Scotstown, celebrated Mass in the church with six motorbikes at the foot of the altar. He was joined by Fr Tony Conlon and Fr Jim Moore, while Church…
A new book highlights the surprising ways Jesus shapes our most popular films and books, writes Ruadhán Jones It may seem unlikely, but Jesus and the comic book character Batman do have something in common, and something quite integral too. In order to save the world, both must make sacrifices to overcome ‘the monster’. The…
An investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed that the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 boys and adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as “blunders”, and that the Jesuits covered it up. A nephew…
I’m uneasy about repurposed churches – sad that worship no longer goes on there, what is left being like an empty shell. If its new purpose is something artistic it takes away some of the sting. The Sea Church, with Jesus prominent in its stained-glass window, is the venue for the Ballycotton Sessions (RTÉ Two,…
In The Laureate (15A), moody British poet Robert Graves (Tom Hughes) is experiencing writer’s block brought on by shellshock after being at the front in World War I. He invites aspiring American poetess Laura Riding (Dianna Agron) to live with him and his wife Nancy (Laura Haddock), an artist, in his country cottage (called, perhaps…
The Oxford Dictionary defines the term “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. In short, people can believe whatever they want to believe as long as they feel it is right. This is a dangerous development for…
The loss of thousands of jobs from Ireland’s tourism sector is “very frightening” for families and communities, mostly rural and coastal, who are very reliant on the sector for jobs and income, parishes have warned. The warning comes after the Government estimated 10,000 jobs were lost due to the lack of hotel accommodation for tourists…
The scale of the persecution of Catholics under the regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua has been laid bare by a new report chronicling 529 attacks in the last five years alone. Jesuit Fr Kevin O’Higgins, who spent decades working in Latin America, told The Irish Catholic the report is “vital” in highlighting the crisis…
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