This coming weekend Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will celebrate a Mass in the Pro Cathedral in Dublin with the anniversary of 10 years of the establishment of the Dublin Diocese Child Protection Service in late 2003. This is not a celebration but it will acknowledge and thank the people who are helping to protect children from…
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Fr Jerome Murphy-O’Connor OP: In Memoriam
Fr Brendan McConvery remembers a renowned biblical teacher and scholar
Keeping faith in the law
Martin O’Brien meets controversial Attorney General John Francis Larkin
Shatter’s attack on the family
A forthcoming law will be the most far-reaching attack on the family, writes David Quinn
Why we need Purgatory, with C.S. Lewis
Thomas G. Casey, SJ examines key lessons from a genius of modern Christianity
Dad’s Diary
Sharing the magic of fairies and folklore
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,…
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,…