Pat O’Kelly As well as his very active performing career at home and abroad, the Dublin-born pianist Finghin Collins is also artistic director of two important events occurring outside the capital. The first is the New Ross Piano Festival, which since its foundation in 2006 takes place in late September and is centred on…
Peru: People walk near a banner with an image of Pope Francis on the facade of the cathedral in Lima, Peru. On January 15, Pope Francis will begin a six-day visit to Chile and Peru.
Kilkenny: Bishop elect Monsignor Dermot Farrell greets students from St Kieran’s College following the announcement that he is to be the next bishop of the Diocese of Ossory.
A series of seminars called ‘Transformer: Life in Spirit’, organised by Catholic charismatic group Living Water, will take place this month. The Life in Spirit programme, which takes place every two years, will begin on January 17 at 7pm in the Edith Stein Room, St Teresa’s Church on Claredon Street, Co Dublin, and will continue…
Italy: Pope Francis greets a patient during an unannounced visit to children at the Palidoro Bambino Gesu Hospital, in Fiumicino, outside Rome.
Kilkenny: Bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Ossory, Fr Laurence Forristal, with Caroline Cummins and Margaret Logue who work for the parish of St Canice in Kilkenny.
Dear Editor, The news that Fr Patrick Peyton, the famous ‘Rosary Priest’, is now firmly on the path to sainthood is one that will have gladdened many hearts, but perhaps a greater blessing is the prospect of this renewing Rosary devotion in Ireland. Fr Peyton was, of course, a product of a different time, a…
Italy: Choir members from US parishes sing in an Epiphany Festival concert at the Church of St Ignatius in Rome. Choirs from the parishes of St Matthew and Mother Teresa of Calcutta in Topeka, Kansas, and the children’s choir from the Diocese of Orange, California performed at the concert.
The Notebook Fr Conor McDonough In the early 1990s, Lu Nan, a Chinese photographer, shot a series of black and white photographs documenting the life of a tiny community of Catholic villagers in Shaanxi. They are all stunning images, and easily found online, but what really stands out for me are the images showing…
Egypt: A clergyman reacts at the site of an attack on the Coptic Orthodox Church of Mar Mina in Helwan, near Cairo. At least nine people were killed in attacks on the church and a Christian-owned shop, authorities said.