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All Hallows welcomes business ethics specialist
All Hallows College in Dublin has welcomed Prof. Patricia Werhane as a Fulbright Specialist to the college from November 10-23, 2013. One of the founders of the contemporary field of business ethics, Prof. Werhane is Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Managing Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University. A prolific…
Tributes paid to Irish biblical scholar
Fr Jerome Murphy-O’Connor OP, who died in the early hours of November 11 in Jerusalem, has been described as a “colossus” in biblical scholarship. The Cork-native spent more than 45 years working and researching in the Holy Land. Born in 1935, he was acknowledged as one of the foremost New Testament scholars in the world,…
A cozy cover for a hot water bottle
Stay warm this winter with this homemade hot water bottle cover.
Rejecting a life of ‘bling’
‘Glitter’ and ‘Bling’or ‘Mud’ and ‘Poverty’, which would you chose? In this world of instant everything, many of us reach out for the former but there are some amongst us who make choices in life which carry them away from certainty and comfort to walk the challenging road with those whom society keeps in poverty.…
Phantasmagoria and a touch of whimsy
Thor: The Dark World (12A)There’s no gainsaying the visual splendour of would-be epics like this, even if they tend to resemble little more than sophisticated video games betimes, but the makers rarely seem to bother inserting any subtleties in the plotlines or characterisations, as if the kind of people who go to films like this…
Dying into safe hands
It’s hard to say something consoling in the face of death, even when the person who died lived a full life and died in the best of circumstances. It’s especially hard when the one who’s died is a young person, still in need of nurturing and care in this life, and when that young person…
‘Read, read and listen’
Catholics need to rediscover the treasure of the Bible, Fr Albert McNally tells Martin O’Brien
Recognise the contribution of Catholic orders
Dear Editor, As the nephew of two, sadly deceased, Sisters of the Presentation Order I read with interest the news that the founder of the Presentation Order, Nano Nagle, has been declared Venerable. I hope that this will provide an opportunity not merely to review her life but also to end the current obsession in…
A response on mental health
Dear Editor, In her letter (IC 24/10/13) Sorcha Lowry of Headline misunderstood and then misrepresented what I had written about mental illness. My main point was that we should not lump together problems such as depression – which indeed many people will suffer during a lifetime – with a serious disorder such as schizophrenia and…