Climate change ‘challenges’ all Ireland Climate change, biodiversity and poverty challenge every part of Ireland, Bishop Ray Browne has said, as the Church celebrates the Season of Creation until October 4. The season celebrates the joy of creation and “encourages awareness-raising initiatives to protect the natural environment”, the bishop of Kerry said in a statement.…
Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) are close friends in South Korea during their youth in Celine Song’s heartbreaking film Past Lives (PG). Their paths divide when, at the age of twelve, Nora’s parents move to New York. Twelve years later, Hae locates Nora, managing to connect with her through Skype. He learns…
The famous sociologist of religion Prof. Grace Davie coined the phrase ‘believing without belonging’ to describe the state of religion in Britain in the early 1990s. In 1994, Prof. Davie painted a stark picture of our neighbouring island as a country where church-going is largely a thing of the past, but many people still identify…
For at least the last 1,200 years the tradition of the Church has been that Saturdays are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Have you ever wondered why? What is it about Saturday that makes it so appropriate to remember Mary? The Vatican’s Directory on Popular Piety says that this tradition is a remembrance of the…
Dear Editor, I write to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Cardinal Timothy Dolan for his inspiring message delivered during the recent Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh [The Irish Catholic – August 31, 2023]. His words should resonate deeply with Catholics not only in Ireland but across the globe. Cardinal Dolan’s call for Irish…
Thomas O’Loughlin While the image of ‘the pilgrim People of God’ has been central to formal understanding of the church since Vatican II – an event now more than two generations ago – its impact on the pew-level ecclesiology has been marginal. It was intended to be a biblically rich vision to replace the political…
A powerful earthquake struck Morocco the night of September 8, killing more than 2,000 people, with the numbers expected to rise as rescuers continue to search through the rubble. Search and rescue teams continue their attempt to reach those in remote villages closer to the earthquake’s epicentre. The deadly quake’s epicentre was reported to be…
Deacon Greg Kandra 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 27:30—28:7 Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 Rom 14:7-9 Mt 18:21-35 It happened in late December of 1983, just days after Christmas. Pope John Paul II, the world’s most-travelled Pope, journeyed just a short distance from where he lived, into a section of Rome he probably didn’t know very…
In the broad Church that is Catholicism, there are so many strands of interest, even within the ambit of orthodoxy – some are big into ecology, some into life issues, some into social justice. When it comes to prayer and ritual there is also so much variety, so it ill behoves one tribe to snipe…
Episode 6 – Young, Proud and Catholic: Irish Americans rock the home country Notre Dame President John Jenkins and Cardinal Dolan speak to our guest Michael Kelly on the deep roots of Irish American Catholicism. Also why is Uncle Sam fighting with Uncle Frank?
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Michael Kelly
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