Dear Editor, I am absolutely horrified at the headline in The Irish Catholic (09/06/2016) ‘Pressure on Catholic schools to ban Amnesty International’. It beggars belief that Catholic schools would allow Amnesty address their pupils with their promotion of the killing of babies in the womb. It was hardly too much to expect that, when Amnesty…
Dear Editor, Pope Francis is to take part in an ecumenical service on October 31 this year in Sweden. This is Reformation Day and this year it will begin a year-long commemoration of the 500th anniversary of when Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the castle church door at Wittenberg. This was to lead to the…
Pauline Dowd describes a children’s parish-based programme that the Diocese of Down & Connor is making available to parishes across the country
Emma Keenan describes how attending a Catholic school has set students on a positive path for life
For pro-European Catholics the last few weeks will have been dispiriting ones, with the ‘Leave’ side in Britain’s ‘Brexit’ referendum looking to be gaining in momentum, with just days until the June 23 poll. Peculiarly, it seems that online British Catholics of a more ‘traditional’ mould to the majority are themselves leaning heavily towards voting…
In much of Western civilisation, we have arrived at a juncture where questions of the Churches’ identity and political relevance need to be examined and discussed in a serious and fresh way.
The relationship between faith and man’s best friend
1916 Surrenders: Captain H. E. de Courcy-Wheeler’s Eye-Witness Account by Alex Findlater (Edited by A & A Farmar) Produced by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, €11.99)
New children’s book tells a simple story while new memoir and novel share vivid stories
‘Becoming the Presence of God. Contemplative Ministry for Everybody’ by Michael Ford (Columba Press, €14.99)