Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World 1914-1945 by Ramachandra Guha London: Allen Lane, 2018, £40 Patrick Claffey SVD In 1911 the British authorities decided to move the capital of their Indian Empire from Calcutta to Delhi. They set about doing this by creating a new district that came to be known as New Delhi. The work…
The Notebook Fr Conor McDonough World Youth Day, the massive, global gathering of young Catholics, took place in Panama this year, finishing with a papal Mass last Sunday. As always, this colourful gathering yielded all kinds of beautiful moments and images, but the one that spoke most powerfully to me was taken by a…
Pat O’Kelly Following the departure of Kazakh musician Alan Buribayev when his extended contract expired in 2016, the RTÉ NSO has been without a principal conductor. In the ‘interregnum’ there have been a number of visiting artists on the podium not least Nathalie Stutzmann who has been principal guest conductor since 2017. Born in…
Dear Editor, Gabriel Doherty’s comments in your front-page story this week (IC 24/1/2019) have really shown up the ignorance and intellectual shallowness of our political classes. That the Taoiseach should have thought references to private property and the Common Good in our Constitution derive from socialism rather than from basic Catholic social teaching points to…
Those who stand up for the dignity of life in all its stages and want to see this respect for all life enshrined once again in US law have a friend in the Pence family and the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence told the March for Life crowd on the National Mall on January…
The Church should prepare to sell large numbers of Catholic schools to the State and use the money to strengthen remaining Catholic schools, leading commentator Maria Steen has said. Mrs Steen – a columnist with The Irish Catholic – and spokesperson for The Iona Institute has warned that the continued situation where the State is…
Albany’s Catholic bishop has called on New York Governer Andrew Cuomo to stop the ‘Death Star’ as he called a bill in the state legislature to expand current state law on abortion that has the full backing of Cuomo, a Catholic. “Although in your recent State of the State address you cited your Catholic faith…
The man who made a 2004 accusation of misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick has said he is in disbelief after Cardinal Donald Wuerl told him he forgot about the allegation sometime after becoming Washington’s archbishop in 2006. Wuerl wrote to Washington, DC priests that “when I was asked if I had any previous knowledge of…
A government spokesman said Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is open to dialogue with the country’s bishops, after the president recently suggested that citizens of the country kill the Church leaders. Tensions have increased between Duterte and the bishops as Church leaders have continued to condemn the president’s brutal war on drugs. Since Duterte’s rise to…
The stole worn by the late Bishop Edward Daly on Bloody Sunday is to be donated to the Museum of Free Derry. The vestment, along with a photograph of the teenage victim Jackie Duddy, which Bishop Daly kept on his desk for over four decades, will be formally given to the museum at a ceremony…