The more we intercede, the more we are shaped by the love that desires unity, not uniformity, says Peter Kasko Pray for one another’ is a phrase we Christians often use to encourage and support each other. Expressions like ‘Please pray for me’ or ‘I’ll keep you in my prayers’ remind us that we belong…
Fr John McCarthy Dear friends, there have never been so many languages within our hearing. When you walk down any street in a big town in Ireland, you hear many languages other than English or Irish. But the thing is, no matter what language is used, the physical gestures will be familiar on their…
Here in Ireland the recovery in 1993 of a Caravaggio painting from the wall of the dining room of the Jesuit residence in Leeson Street, Dublin, made us all very conscious of this extraordinary artist of the Baroque period. That painting, The Taking of Christ, from 1602, now has a home in the National Gallery, where…
It must be hard for those with a secure home to fully appreciate the experience of homelessness. Gradually becoming homeless is bad enough, being yanked violently out of your home must be so much more heartbreaking. An historical example was outlined in the moving documentary Saving a Man – the Role of the Church During…
People of a certain age will remember Radharc, the documentary series funded in 1962 by the then Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid. This month there are free shows at the Irish Film Institute at lunchtime on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays of two of its seminal films, both a half hour long. You can also…
The days the news seems to have, on an almost daily basis, some medical story in prominence: the saga of the Children’s Hospital, crowded Emergency Departments, patients on trolleys for days on end, a lack of beds nationwide, unnecessary operations on children, failures to treat others… It seems to go and on. What perhaps we…
Death in Derry: Martin McGuinness & the Derry IRA’s War against the British by Jonathan Trigg (Merrion Press, €18.99 / £17.99) This is a detailed account of the conflict between the members of the Derry Brigade of the Provisional IRA and the Crown Forces from 1971 onwards. The author is a military historian. Before putting…
In preparation for a National Synod next year, Irish dioceses recently engaged in conversations to propose priority themes. These themes were taken from seventeen topics related to the life of the Church that emerged from previous conversations in the Spirit and were summarised in the National synthesis document: ‘Synthesis of the Consultation in Ireland for…
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