Sisters Sky and Willow Shaw at the launch of the Under the Weather Campaign. Information on a wide range of common conditions like colds, flu and tummy bugs, is available at www.undertheweather.ie from the HSE and health professionals, for adults and children. Photo: Photocall Ireland
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Adoration chapel in Fermoy restored St Patrick’s Church, Fermoy, Co. Cork has unveiled its newly refurbished adoration chapel. In a project aimed at reversing wear to support beams in the chapel, a full programme of work was undertaken to reverse the site’s previous layout to offer better use of four stained glass windows. In addition…
Belfast 4 Corners Festival
The Belfast 4 Corners Festival will take place this year from February 3 to 12, under the theme ‘Our Wounded & Wonderful City’. The event comprises innovative events aimed at encouraging people to go beyond the ‘corners’ of their own neighbourhoods towards discovering new ideas and friends. The 4 Corners Festival was established by a…
Pope criticises clericalist mind-sets in homily
Pope Francis has criticised the ‘clericalist’ attitude as “hypocritical” and at odds with Jesus’ example of serving the people of God. In a homily delivered in Casa Santa Marta on January 10, the Pontiff said the attitude communicated by Christ was that “of a servant, and this gave authority…Jesus did not have an allergy to…
Death of one of Ireland’s greatest servants
Former Irish economist and public servant TK Whittaker (left), who died this week aged 100, pictured with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Seamus Mallon, former deputy leader of the SDLP, at a function in Mr Whittaker’s honour last year.
Pope Francis announces prayer intention for the homeless
Pope Francis has issued an ‘urgent action’ prayer intention for the month of January, naming the homeless during the continuing cold weather sweeping Europe. “During these very cold days,” he said, “I think of and I invite you to think of all the people who live on the streets, affected by the cold and many…
Heroic priest play set for American debut
A play about the heroic Irish priest Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty is set for its first overseas performances God Has No Country, by Kerry actor and playwright Donal Courtney about the Rome-based World War Two priest, will be performed in Rochester, New York and Penn State University, Pennsylvania in March and April. There have been proposals…
Death in contemporary Ireland is a complex matter
Dr Kevin Myers Most Irish people continue to believe in life after death but many don’t see the Church as the only path to salvation, writes Dr Kevin Myers “Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.” Penned by John Donne, this sonnet verse proclaims man’s…
Threat of ‘fraternal correction’ of Pope Francis is dismissed
The head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has dismissed a threat of ‘fraternal correction’ of Pope Francis in connection with the ongoing Amoris Laetitia row. In an interview with Italian TV last weekend, Cardinal Gerhard Muller responded to the earlier threat issued by Cardinal Raymond Burke that a formal correction of the…
Twenty-eight pastoral workers killed in 2016
The year 2016 saw 28 Catholic pastoral care workers die by violence worldwide. In its annual report on those religious and lay killed in the course of their work, the Church’s news body, Agenzia Fides, reveals that “in 2016 14 priests, nine religious women, one seminarian and four lay people died violently”. The Americas were…