Our vision is to create a team of leaders within schools who will serve as an example of faith in action, Sr Bernadette Carron DC writes The Ember programme is a Faith leadership training programme for students at senior level in post-primary schools coordinated by the Education Secretariat, Archdiocese of Dublin. The word Ember describes…
Emma O’Broin What can I tell you about the Logos Scripture Summer School? Perhaps if I tell you that I begin to look forward to it shortly after I put away my Christmas decorations, you might have some idea! And it looks like I’m not the only one who feels this way, because this year…
Iva Beranek This simple ‘God-incidence’ is like Heaven affirming the decision for this year’s consecration writes, Iva Beranek ost of us are truly unaware how deeply we are loved by God. But we are also unaware how people around us are loved, as well. We’d have more peace, joy and trust in difficulties with the…
Independent TD for Tipperary, Mattie McGrath, has today strongly reiterated his opposition to the proposed World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty, as the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA) meets this week in Geneva to finalize negotiations on the agreement. Deputy McGrath warned that the Pandemic treaty poses a grave threat to Ireland’s sovereignty, democratic…
Bro. Michael Murphy This Matt Talbot Centenary Year marks a century since the death of Venerable Matt Talbot, known for his dedication to faith and recovery from alcoholism. This year is an opportunity to reflect on his life, contributions to our Catholic faith, and his lasting impact on addiction recovery programs worldwide. Remarkably, Matt Talbot…
Seamus Cashman Plenitude, by Thomas McCarthy (Carcanet Press, £11.99 / €14.99) Tom McCarthy’s new collection Plenitude has that centrality of ‘pleasure’ and ‘vocation’ at the heart of poetry’s creative energies which Auden once alluded to, as indeed do so many of his recent prose works. Plenitude completes a trilogy of collections, the previous books are Pandemonium (2016) and Prophecy (2019), all…
Dr Kieran J. O’Mahony OSA Robert ‘Bob’ Prevost OSA, now Pope Leo XIV, is a member of the Order of St Augustine, the first to be elected as bishop of Rome. The Order is an old one, going back to 1256, taking its inspiration from the great St Augustine of Hippo. Of course people wonder…
This is just what Christian inclusiveness is about: all are invited; not to ‘more of the same,’ but to something new, radical, and wonderful, writes Fr Chris Hayden Welcoming, openness, acceptance; inclusiveness, inclusion, inclusivity… these ideas have become part of the air we breathe. Their goodness is as taken-for-granted as that of fresh air, wholesome…
Dr Massimo Faggioli The 2025 conclave, which was quickly resolved on the second day, elected an American Augustinian to the papacy, Robert Francis Prevost, who chose Leo XIV as his name. In the days preceding the conclave, two other Americans had been seen in the Vatican, with different relationships with the Church, but both interested…
Fr Eamonn Conway Pope Leo intends, albeit in his own way and according to his own style, to press forward with the same priorities that Pope Francis held. Pope Leo has called for a renewal of everyone’s commitment to Vatican II and in his first homily to the cardinals who elected him has described as…