In this fourth article on Knock, we focus on the Cross in the background of the vision. The silence of the apparition encompasses the Cross. On Good Friday, after Jesus died on the Cross we read in the Gospel “there was a great darkness over all the land” (Luke 23:44). There is silence; there are…
No amount of preaching shapes a soul as much as seeing someone living an honest life. If that’s true, and it is, then no marriage course is ever as powerful to teach about marriage as is the witness of a good marriage. I understood this first-hand several years ago when I attended the 50th wedding…
Questioning faith isn’t a weakness but part of the journey towards truth, writes Brett Salkeld It is a sad reality that Catholics sometimes get the impression that asking questions about their faith is a sign of faithlessness. One young woman I knew bottled up her questions for years until she left the Church. Only then…
Isaiah 66:18-21 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 There are many jokes about who at the end of times will get into Heaven. I remember this one, given by a Lutheran pastor at a religious gathering: St Peter says to the first man, “Welcome to Heaven! Back on Earth, what denomination were you?” “I was a…
The Syro-Malabar Church, an ancient apostolic community, represents a unique confluence of Christian faith and Indian culture. In the context of migration, particularly in Ireland, this Church embodies a living example of inculturation, integration, and missionary vitality. This article explores how the Syro-Malabar Church in diaspora maintains its Eastern Christian identity while engaging meaningfully with…
Dysart Catholic Church in south Co. Roscommon is welcoming visitors from overseas and around Ireland to take part in its celebration of 200 years of Catholic worship. The celebration will take place on Sunday, August 24 at 3:00pm, beginning with a Mass of Thanksgiving led by Bishop Kevin Doran. Following Mass and the unveiling of…
Q: I’m retired and I volunteer with my parish to do the tech stuff to livestream some of the parish’s Masses online. Sometimes I livestream funerals for people who have family members who can’t be there in person, and I’m happy to help people out that way. Recently, I heard that the parish wants to…
Over a month on from the death of Br Kevin Crowley OFM Cap, the Capuchin Day Centre’s Manager Alan Bailey pays a personal tribute to the friar ‘who practised what he preached’ The legendary heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali is quoted as saying that “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here…
Twenty years ago, the charismatic founder of the Taizé Community was killed during evening prayer by a mentally unwell woman. Brother Roger Schutz never sought the spotlight but only to take the path of a seeker, walking alongside others. In the darkest days of 20th-century Europe, he chose a different way. In 1940, he settled…
We must act now for Gaza Dear Editor, what are we to say in the future when they ask us what we did during the Gaza genocide? What will we tell the children and grandchildren when they ask? That we wrung our hands at the horrors, lamented the starvation, the brutality, the bombings, the killings…
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