Trieste Joyce School 2023 James Joyce lived in Trieste from 1905 to 1915, albeit with one interval of nine months spent in Rome in 1906-7. He moved to neutral Switzerland because of the First World War in 1915, but returned briefly to Trieste in 1919 before going to Paris where he would remain for almost…
Members of Queen’s University Belfast’s Catholic chaplaincy celebrated in style as they graduated on July 7. Chaplain Fr Dominic McGrattan and Director of Campus Ministry Shannon Campbell joined the students as they marked the completion of their undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the Belfast college. “Your achievements are all the more impressive given the challenges…
Grand re-openings don’t always happen all at once. In the case of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, which was nearly destroyed in a July 2020 arson fire, its reintroduction to the public has happened gradually, carefully, in stages. First, there was the closing of the mission’s 250th anniversary Jubilee Year in September 2022, when the restored…
Recently, a new community garden was opened in the centre of Rathdowney, Co. Laois. The garden is on the site of the old parish church and we hope it will be a place of gathering and celebration but also a space for contemplation and prayer. Among the entertainers who performed at the opening ceremony were…
The Sunday Gospel Jem Sullivan July 16, 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 55:10-11 Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 Rom 8:18-23 Mt 13:1-23 A real estate agent friend often reminds customers that location is the most important element in buying or selling land. The location of a home or business makes a difference as it determines the…
Audrey Bryce The movie is better than the book is one sentence that is not generally spoken. How often is a film considered better than the book on which it was entirely based? Well, in 2018 authors Greg Laurie and Ellen Vaughn delineated an inspiring story of mass spiritual revival in their novel Jesus Revolution…
Thomas McCarthy * * * Song of the Goldfinch, by John F. Deane (Veritas, €19.99 pb/ £17.50pb) Have we forgotten how universal our secure and graceful Irish Catholic life once was? Well, that is, as the song goes, if your Dad was rich and your Mom was beautiful – true wealth, of course, was then to…
The Philosophers’ Daughters, edited by Peter Vardy (Darton, Longman and Todd, £12.99/ €15.50) Peter Vardy was vice-principal of Heythrop College, University of London, and now runs the largest conferences for students of Philosophy and Religious Studies in Britain. In this thought-provoking book he has gathered a number of questions posed by his two young daughters, Petra…
Dear Editor, Given the highly selective and well-orchestrated nature of information from our national broadcaster it seems to me that there is a grave danger that the general public are being duped into missing a central point in this whole controversy. The top-up payments to Ryan Tubridy are a minor issue in comparison with the…
Kerry diocese appointments announced Two priests are to retire from the priesthood in Kerry diocese, as clergy face an “extra workload”, the bishop of Kerry has announced. Bishop Ray Browne thanked Fr Denis O’Mahony and Fr Martin Sheehan for their “great service” over many years. However, the retirements mean two more parishes will be without…
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