There is a difference between making resolutions and setting new goals, writes Wendy Grace
Courtney McGrail
Building confidence peer to peer
Sarah Langan describes the work of the Meitheal youth peer ministry programme
Ireland’s very troubled relations with the Vatican during the post-war years
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Vol. IX 1948-1951 ed. by Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning and Michael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy, €50.00)
Seeking a new basic theology
Rethinking Fundamental Theology by Gerald O’Collins, SJ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, £18.99 paperback; also available in hardback, £37.99).
Bishop asks for prayers for Cobh tragedy
The Bishop of Cloyne has asked for prayers for all of those affected by the tragic deaths of a married couple and their daughter in Cobh at the weekend. The couple, Michael and Valerie Greaney, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Cobh on Sunday afternoon, and their their 21-year-old daughter…
Scouts spread message of peace
Archbishop Eamon Martin is pictured with members of the local Scout group who presented him with the Peace Light from Bethlehem at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh. The light is taken from the birthplace of Jesus and travels the world passing from one Scout group to another in order to spread a message of peace.
State papers release 2014
Echoes of the past from the Archives
The Simpsons’ ‘serious’ treatment of religion praised
Popular adult cartoon series praised by Vatican newspaper
Passionists welcome new deacon
Rev. Frank Trias CP at his ordination to the diaconate with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in the Church of St Paul of the Cross, Mount Argus, Dublin.
Five years after, Christmas hope is rising once more
Christmas 2009 was a painful time for the Church in Ireland, writes Joe O’Brien