Manna Drones Ltd, an Irish drone delivery company, proposed to the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to build an aerial delivery hub behind the Holy Cross Church in Dundrum, which was met with official refusal from the Council and loud local objection from the church. The Council chiefly refused the plans due to noise concerns…
Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin city centre will welcome young adults on July 12 for a one-day conference and day of reflection on living as disciples in contemporary Ireland. The conference, titled ‘Made for More – Say Yes. Go Deeper. Live Differently’ will include keynote addresses, a personal witness, a panel discussion and opportunities for…
Trócaire has condemned the killing of Fr Youhanna Al-Amin PP of St Vincent’s Kauda Parish of Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of El Obeid, who was killed on Friday, June 19. A staff member of a Trócaire partner organisation was also killed during the attack, and another staff member is “seriously injured and is currently receiving medical…
A prayer room has been created and dedicated to St Carlos Acutis at Nano Nagle Special School in Listowel, Co. Kerry. Principal Jacinta Budhlaeir, parent Michaela Enright and school staff have helped create the room over the last few months. The area was blessed by Fr Brendan Walsh, PP Moyvane, with Holy Cross Tralee’s first-class…
A peculiar thing happened at the Irish Reformation Parliament, held in a number of sessions between 1536-1537. As the name indicates, the Parliament was called to enact the Reformation of Henry VIII in Ireland, a venture that had just been completed in England. Bringing Henry’s Reformation to Ireland involved a series of enactments, most notably…
Asailín Abú, téacs: Pauline Devine; obair ealaíne: Fergal O’Connor; clúdach crua (An Gúm, €12.00; eolas@forasnagaeilge.ie) Leabhar lándaite dea-mhaisithe do pháistí é seo. Ar phaistí atá sna bunranganna agus meánranganna bunscoile atá sé dírithe, a shamhlóinn, páistí a bhfuil blas deas den Ghaeilge acu. É sin ráite, gabhann na pictiúir ar gach leathanach go hálainn leis an…
Q: This past week a member of our parish was confirmed at Sunday Mass, but it was just our parish priest who did the confirmation. I always thought confirmation had to be done by a bishop? Is it allowed for a priest to confirm, or was the recent confirmation at my parish an invalid sacrament?…
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, by David Hockney (Thames & Hudson, second revised edition, £30.00 / €34.50PB) In the many articles covering the death of British artist David Hockney a fortnight ago, few made mention of an aspect of his thinking that those interested in the difficulties of art history…
Dazzling Darkness: The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics, by James Harpur (Hurst Books, £25.00 / €30.00) Though these are for many “the times that try men’s souls” – the phrase of an American patriot of a time long past – interest and concern with the extended tradition of Christian mysticism has not declined in the…
Who are we really? Who are we when we are stripped naked in soul: stripped of ego, stripped of the image we have of ourselves, stripped of the hype, fads, and ideologies that we unconsciously inhale and which colour our thinking, stripped of the trauma we carry from our wounds, and stripped of our habitual…
Peter Costello
Fr Ronald Rolheiser