Dear Editor, I’m in the winter of life, having trained in the 70s as a nurse/midwife. To protect my sanity I choose to watch the news headlines, only once daily. In these few moments I see images of what war does to nations and its people. I see pain and horror etched into the faces…
Jem Sullivan Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 1 Thes 5:1-6 Mt 25:14-30 Mt 25:14-15, 19-21 (alternative) As we gather around the Thanksgiving table with family and friends, hearts and minds fill with gratitude to God and our loved ones. We may not realise it but in giving thanks to God…
Scholarship winners and donors were honoured at a reception given by the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin, on Thursday November 2. The Loyola Institute is dedicated to education and research in theology in the Catholic Christian tradition and offers degrees at postgraduate level, both taught and by research. “For many of our students’ scholarships are…
Cardinal Brady launches history of Drogheda religious Cardinal Sean Brady launched a new DVD about the various religious around the Drogheda area, Co. Louth, entitled Life is Changed, Not Ended. The DVD was initially conceived to recognise the impact of various religious communities in Drogheda especially in areas of education, social justice, healthcare, youth and…
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda recently expressed his concern to the papal foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the war being fought between Israel and Hamas could spread throughout the Middle East. Archbishop Warda, a native of Iraq and the archbishop of Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, fears that…
A leading expert on the Pope’s worldwide consultation of Catholics on the future of the Church has criticised former president Mary McAleese for her reaction to the process. Prof. Massimo Faggioli, professor of theology at Villanova University in the US, was speaking after Mrs McAleese expressed the view that the document from the month-long first…
Freedom is a gift we must not misuse, writes Bishop Donald Hying In his groundbreaking document on Catholic moral principles, Veritatis Splendor, St John Paul II dedicates many paragraphs to the question of freedom, articulating it as an authentic gift from God. The Lord gives us the freedom to choose how to live. We are…
Kenneth Craycraft Only 150 years ago, in October 1873, Eastern Orthodox theologian (and later Metropolitan of Nicomedia) Philotheos Bryennios made a monumental discovery in the bowels of the library of the Great School of the Nation in Istanbul. He found a complete manuscript of the late 1st Century catechism known as The Teaching of…
Sr Hosea Rupprecht Did you ever decorate your room with posters of your favourite famous people when you were a teenager – a sports figure, movie star or musician? Growing up, I sure did. I had posters of John Denver, Wayne Gretzky and Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in my bedroom. There’s no doubt that…
Cindy Wooden In an hourlong interview with Italy’s main news programme, Pope Francis announced he would travel to Dubai in early December for the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28. He also revealed that he speaks every day with the priest and women religious at Holy Family Church in Gaza, that he was pleased with the…