Bishops on tour for Trócaire: Kenya believe it?

Kenya: Bishops Fintan Monahan, William Crean, Denis Brennan and Canon Michael McLoughlin meet the Irish Ambassador to Nairobi, Mr Vincent O’Neil, and Trócaire’s Director Éamonn Meehan, the Regional Director Paul Healy and Director of the International Division Seán Farrell during the bishops’ annual Trócaire trip.

Out & About

Cork: Aoife Horgan, Aoibhinn Barry, Conor Dineen and Laura O’Donovan who travelled to Kolkata, India to work with the Hope Foundation, received Endeavour Awards from Anthony Forde, Blarney Credit Union, at the Scoil Mhuire gan Smal, Awards Night. Picture: Mike English

Tributes paid to Fr Ronan Drury

Tributes have been paid to Maynooth professor Fr Ronan Drury who has died aged 93. A stalwart of the national seminary, Fr Drury taught countless generations of Irish priests the art of preaching homilies. He died on Thursday, November 16, in Dublin. A priest of the Meath Diocese, he was ordained in 1949 having begun…

Talking family, being family

WMOF 2018 Martin Kennedy   People long for love that lasts. And such love is really possible. This is the good news at the heart of Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) which Pope Francis invites us to embrace and share. The World Meeting of Families 2018 Parish Conversations programme is a resource available to…

A Christian voice from a realm of fear

Letters from Aleppo by Fr Ibrahim Alsabagh (Columba Press, €14.99) Anthony 
Redmond   I have a Syrian friend whom I met in Dublin 15 years ago when he was a student of English. He returned to Syria before the terrible war began in 2011 and he is now married there with two small children.  We keep in touch…