A great crafter of the spoken and written word has gone to God, writes Fr Michael Mullaney Ronan Drury came to Maynooth as a young man in 1942 to prepare for the priesthood and, apart from three years, he lived his priesthood in this college. He had a great devotion to this place and…
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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…
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Mayo: Children enjoy the Diocese of Achonry’s preparation launch for the World Meeting of Families.
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…
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Limerick: Pupils from Doon CBS Primary School display their shoeboxes for the Christmas Showbox Appeal.
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…
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Nyumbani: Minister Coveney and Sr. Mary Owens, Executive Director of Nyumbani, with the children of Nyumbani.
Pope leads the way, walking the walk on caring for the marginalised
Dear Editor, It was lovely to see at the weekend Pope Francis hosting a lunch for some of Rome’s vulnerable and needy people. It’s a beautiful witness to the Gospel imperative to reach out to those who society forgets. While the critics of the Church will often point to what they perceive to be the…
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Vatican: People take photos as Pope Francis arrives to celebrate Mass marking the first World Day of the Poor in St. Peter’s Basilica.










