There are truths in Christianity so familiar that we risk no longer being astonished by them. The feast of Corpus Christi confronts us with one of them. We hear again words that Catholics have repeated for centuries: “This is my Body… This is my Blood.” Yet if we truly allowed those words to enter our…
If you spend any time in Catholic circles online, you may have seen the images: small groups gathered across Ireland, Rosary beads in hand, kneeling in prayer in the public square. The images came from the recent Rosary Rallies organised by the Irish Society for Christian Civilisation and its Ireland Needs Fatima campaign. According to…
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever The Gospel John 6:51 [Jesus said:] “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world…
The month of June is dedicated in a special way to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 2002, Pope St John Paul II established the solemnity of the Sacred Heart as the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests. The solemnity is a fitting day for this prayer because it highlights the importance…
I finished last week’s column with a brief mention of Pope Leo’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas on the theme of AI. Subsequently the document was well noted and received in the media. On Morning Ireland (RTÉ Radio 1) Tuesday of last week, I liked Audrey Carville’s introduction on the Pope’s call for the ‘disarming’ of AI…
The last time we saw a ‘good’ thief in a film was Channing Tatum in Roofman. Leo Woodall looks somewhat like Tatum in Daniel Roher’s Tuner (15). He has the same attractively lazy style of acting as him as well, and even wears a similar tracksuit. The ‘double life’ plot of the film has similarities…
There are two parts in this book. The first part is a history of the Newell family. The second is a collection of short stories written by Máirtín Ó Tnúthail, one of the most distinguished members of that family, under the nomme de plume ‘Dermot L. Martyn’. These were written in the decades after World…
Some weeks ago, a weekend paper carried a large notice of an art auction due to be held on May 25 in Dublin. One of the pictures caught my wife’s eye: it was a familiar yet different image, a version in water colour of the large oil painting ‘Mass in a Connemara Cottage’ by Aloysius…
It seems like a huge understatement to say that we are living in uncertain times as a Church here in Ireland. Every parish, every religious community and every diocese across the country is grappling with social and ecclesial change that is happening at a faster rate than we can process. Despite our best efforts to…
Fr Dominik Domagala
Brendan O’Regan
Aubrey Malone
Peter Costello