Inés San Martín Days after time ran out for the priests of an entire Nigerian diocese to write and apologise for having refused to accept their bishop for the past five years, Pope Francis, through some of his closest advisers, has begun to respond to each of them. “The Pope promised he would write back,…
Dear Editor, I read with interest the account of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s analysis of the state of the Catholic Church in modern Ireland and his many solutions that would improve the situation (IC 13/07/2017). While many of them have been put forward in the past 40-50 years, very few of them yielded the much longed…
Lt Col. Mary Carroll and Sgt Major Fintan Lambe present Sr Colette of Galway’s Poor Clare Sisters with a hand- carved crucifix from Bethlehem as an expression of thanks from the 54th Infantry Group UNDOF for the sisters’ promise of prayers when they left last year for a peace keeping mission in the Golan Heights.
Walkers from Belfast, Derry and Dublin arrive at Knock Shrine for the annual Cursillo Peace Pilgrimage, which has taken place for over 30 years. This year 260 pilgrims walked to the shrine as a pilgrimage for ‘Peace in Our Hearts, in our Homes and in Our Country and the World’. Photo: Sinéad Mallee
Capuchin students from New Zealand, Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia visiting the Irish Capuchin Province as part of a collaborative formation programme. From left: Bro. Peter, Bro. Jacek (Formator), Bro. Roman, Bro. Nick, Bro. Paul, Bro. Michael and Bro. Kieran Shorten (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, Co Donegal)
Máire Ní Aogáin According to a saying attributed to Jim Larkin, “Christ is crucified every day on the streets of Dublin”. This little book transfers this metaphor to the DART stations, linking these to the Stations of the Cross. The bilingual text draws on literature from each language to provide contemporary context for the Stations…
A girl receives Communion during Mass at the Steubenville NYC youth conference at St John’s University in Jamaica, New York. More than 1,700 teenagers and youth ministers from 11 states and Canada participated in the event. Photo: CNS
Joe Carroll Irish troops have been involved in United Nations peacekeeping missions for 60 years at a cost of 86 lives. It is an honourable record and the author, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Defence Forces, has played his part. In his new book he writes about the Irish role in these missions and …
Rebuilding Confirmation by Christopher Wesley (Maria Press, $US 10.95PRP) This important little book is subtitled: ‘Because we need more than another graduation’. This will arouse echoes in the mind of pastors and parents, for there is certainly a great confusion it seems among Catholics about what Confirmation is. Rites of passage are very important, and Irish…
Fr Vincent Sherlock The Redemptorist Fr Peter Burns directed our priests’ diocesan retreat this year. In some of his talks he spoke to us of Faith and the absolute need for it to be personal. He drew the vital distinction that though it need be ‘personal’, if truly lived it can never be private. By its…