The Columbans’ work in Korea has adapted over the past 80 years, writes Fr Donal O’Keefe, SSC.
Courtney McGrail
Getting beyond pride
We can still learn valuable lessons about the dangers of self-satisfaction from Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor says Fr Thomas G. Casey
World War 1 through a lens
By EE O'Donnell When World War I broke out in 1914, 80,000 Irish men joined the British Army – the vast majority of them being Catholics. Chaplains were badly needed and the religious orders were asked to supply them. Figures differ from source to source, but my understanding is that 32 Irish Jesuits…
Breaking free from teenage cliques
Time changes everything
Capital makes some more equal than others
Capital in the Twenty First Century
Ireland’s links with black freedom
Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Black O’Connell
Public services failing homeless – Archbishop
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has described the level of homelessness in Dublin as “shameful”. Speaking at Crosscare’s Year 1 Report launch last week, Dr Martin said the “vulnerable and marginalised” often fall “prey to the very systems which were there to provide them with protection and support”, and condemned “services which are below standards and which…
Thousands brave Reek climb
Pilgrims gather to climb Croagh Patrick
The glamorous side of camping
Courtney McGrail explores the options available for family camping holidays
The Club at Eddyís Bar
This is an interesting exploration of the state of Eastern Europe since the fall of communism, in many ways it echoes the atmosphere of a 1930s novel, but yet is right up to date in the attitudes to society and politics and money. This is a world which the author, a former journalist turned industrialist,…