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A delicious gingerbread Nativity set
Nothing beats the smell of freshly baked gingerbread at Christmas
A feast of film at the IFI
Documentary may not be the most popular genre, but done well can have quite an impact. Powerfuland well-made as it was, it’s hard to see what effect The Disappearedwill have (RTÉ 1 Monday, BBC 4 Tuesday, last week). Darragh MacIntyre certainly re-opened the controversy about the people were ‘disappeared’ in Northern Ireland in the 1970s,…
Facing the challenge to forgive
Dear Editor, Aubrey Malone titles his review of the film Philomena ‘The Sins of the Mothers’ (IC 31/10/13). He clearly sees sin only in the young mothers like Philomena Lee who were locked in the Magdalen Homes and not in how they were treated. He sees the film as an attack on ‘the Church’ which…
‘What we were doing was right’
Msgr Raymond Murray had an uphill battle exposing human rights abuses, writes Martin O’Brien
Intelligent Christianity with C.S. Lewis
Fr Thomas Casey SJ reflects on key things we can learn from this genius of modern Christianity
Desperate typhoon survivors plead for help
Paul Keenan and Cathal Barry Parishes across Ireland are mounting massive fundraising efforts for the Philippines as Irish missionaries there say more aid is urgently needed. In the wake of super-typhoon Haiyan, some 10 million people are directly affected and more than 5 million people left homeless. The death toll is expected to be in…
Irish missionaries lead typhoon relief efforts
‘There is still so much needed’
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,…