Notebook Martin Delaney Some years ago while living in the Washington DC area I had an opportunity to visit the Vietnam Memorial Wall. The monument is a long black granite wall with thousands of names of those who lost their lives in the war. As I walked slowly through the memorial site a number…
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Féiner, Her Memoirs and Political Writings by Margaret Ward (University College Dublin Press, €35) Sonja Tiernan The memoirs and political writings of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington is an extensive and valuable collection that makes for a thoroughly engaging read. Publication of this book provides a tremendous primary resource to…
Vatican The existence of nuclear weapons creates a false sense of security that holds international relations hostage and stifles peaceful coexistence, Pope Francis said. “The threat of their use as well as their very possession is to be firmly condemned,” the Pope told participants at a conference on nuclear disarmament hosted by the Vatican. For…
Clare: Bishop Fintan Monahan thanks Gerard Gallagher and Jesse Rogers for “excellent presentations” at the Killaloe Diocesan In-service, also pictured are Maureen Kelly, Ger Nash and Eamon FitzGibbon.
US: A helicopter drops water on a fast moving wildfire in Orange, California. A recent Catholic Climate Covenant webinar explored the connection between global warming and extreme weather events.
India: A woman in Delhi sits amid the rubble of her home destroyed by local authorities in a bid to relocate the residents. Pope Francis will celebrate the Catholic Church’s first World Day of the Poor this Sunday.
Kenya: A protester shouts in front of a burning barricade in a slum area of Nairobi. Kenyan Catholic bishops have announced plans to convene a national dialogue forum in the face of a political crisis
A perfect sunny day as Sr Marie Therese Brosnan delights Caitlin Barry, blowing bubbles with her in the garden of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, Co. Waterford. The picture is contained in a new book, A Year in the Life of Glencairn Abbey, which – through a series of images and words – offers a rare insight…
Loreto nun Sr Orla Treacy, with a statue of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty after being awarded the 2017 Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award in Killarney over the weekend. Sr Orla is principal of the Loreto school in Rumbek, South Sudan, where she has been a missionary since 2006. Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
Some 10,000 families – the vast majority of them believed to be Catholic – have been intimidated from their homes in the North since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, according to new figures. However, the figures – compiled by the Belfast-based investigative website Detail Data – may be much higher since many incidents…