August 15 is the great Marian feast that honours the whole human person, writes Dr Sarah Jane Boss For many centuries, the Feast of the Assumption was celebrated in the Church without any formal definition of the doctrine. In most places, it was the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary and it is…
An Irish charity that supports international development has called on the Irish Government to ensure that extra tax this year is used for the most vulnerable abroad. Dóchas, in a statement after there was a projected increase in tax receipts of at least 10%, said 240 million people in 69 countries require urgent humanitarian assistance.…
David Mills Some years ago, a priest sent me occasional criticism of something I’d written. He tended to pick at small points. We’d had dinner a couple of times and were friendly, and I eventually responded that I’d find it easier to hear his criticism if he’d ever offered any comment but criticism. I…
French football star and devout Christian Olivier Giroud had warm words for those attending the recent World Youth Day festival in Lisbon, Portugal, saying that they are a “sign of hope”. Sharing a video message August 1 addressed to the 40,000 young French people who travelled to the festivities in Lisbon, Portugal, the 36-year-old said, “You…
Nobody should be forced to pay for a service they do not want. People should certainly not be required to fund obscene salaries and political activism under threat of imprisonment. There is no longer any need to force everyone with a television to pay for RTÉ. Instead, only those who wish to actually watch RTÉ…
Elizabeth Scalia In Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a point where Atticus Finch, seeking to teach his son about making reparation for damaging another’s property (and about something else, too) orders his young son Jem to visit the bedside of sickly old Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose and read aloud to…
Jenna Marie Cooper Q: How do we reconcile the story of Adam and Eve and original sin with evolution? A: We can say the creation story in the Book of Genesis – while being true – was not meant as a literal or technical scientific account of how the material world was formed. Although…
World Youth Day is returning to Asia in 2027 and will be hosted in Seoul, South Korea. Pope Francis announced the location on August 6 to some 1.5 million pilgrims who attended the closing Mass of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon. “The next World Youth Day will take place in Asia. It will be…
Judith Sudilovsky The Stella Maris Carmelite monastery has seen destruction and banishment over its centuries’-old history, dating back to the mid-13th Century. The recent attempts by a group of Jewish religious extremists to declare the monastery a Jewish holy site has however, for the first time, led to the monks installing metal fencing around its…
Dear Editor, I was, like most people, horrified at the treatment of the young calves at marts around the country as portrayed on the national news and shown on the Prime Time Investigates programme aired on RTÉ, Monday, July 10. These young calves are going to slaughter (something that is not spoken about, the presenter…