Authority as service lies at the heart of Pope Leo XIV’s Augustinian formation, writes Fr Barry White We are marking the first anniversary of the election of Pope Leo XIV on May 8 2025, when Robert Francis Prevost stepped onto the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica. He appeared calm, if visibly moved, introducing himself simply…
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and wounded others on Saturday while the Israeli military demolished parts of a Catholic convent in a border village, officials said. Israel’s military on Saturday issued a new warning for residents of nine southern villages to evacuate. Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group have kept…
I attended a double book launch in Renehan Hall, Maynooth College, on April 18. The authors were Dr Mette Lebech of the Faculty of Philosophy, Maynooth University, and Dr Robert McNamara of the Faculty of Philosophy, St Patrick’s Pontifical University. When the official proceedings were over, we dispersed to mix and mingle. Having happily paid…
Children “bear the brunt” of international religious freedom violations, panelists at an April 30 hearing of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said. Vicky Hartzler, chair of USCIRF, an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission that monitors religious freedom around the globe, said the group is “deeply concerned about countries where governments restrict religious…
Here we go again – another effort in Leinster House to liberalise our abortion laws, courtesy of the Social Democrats. Is there not enough death? Party leader Holly Cairns TD was interviewed briefly on Today with David McCullagh (RTÉ One, Tuesday). The host challenged her with a relevant point – the people voted to repeal…
Family life is hard. In case no one has affirmed that for you lately, let me be the one. Whether you’re in the stage of diapers and bottles, wiping faces and losing sleep or whether you’re worrying about the children who have grown, the now-adults making their stumbling way through a suffering world, families will…
The readings of this Sunday seem to stand apart from one another. In one, we witness the extraordinary power that accompanied the first disciples—healings, liberation, visible signs of divine action. In another, we hear a call to endure suffering patiently, even injustice, without retaliation. And in the Gospel, Christ speaks of love, obedience, and a…
In Trad, a rebellious young fiddle player Shona (Megan Nic Fhionnghaile) leaves her Donegal Gaeltacht home to find herself through her music. She joins a band and lives a hippie lifestyle of hitch-hiking, camping and busking with her sort-of boyfriend Ray (Cathal Coade Palmer) whom she hooks up with on the rebound from the older,…
To be a committed Christian today requires us to face danger. This is certainly true in places like Nigeria and other parts of the world where persecution is a real possibility with regular attacks taking place on places of worship and where Christians gather. But there is another sense, closer to home, where our faith…
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome! Since the very beginning of my Pontificate, I have thought about a journey in Africa. I thank the Lord for granting me the opportunity to undertake it, as Shepherd, to meet and encourage the people of God; and also to experience it as a message of peace…
Fr Barry White
Brendan O’Regan
Fr Dominik Domagala
Aubrey Malone