Dear Editor, Contributors are wanted urgently for a new book about couples that left Northern Ireland after making a mixed marriage. The Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA) is producing a paperback that will give at least six couples the chance to tell in their own words how they were affected when they put love…
Courtney McGrail
US priest faces Church investigation for using aborted infant in Trump video appeal
A prominent pro-life campaigning priest in the United States is facing a Church investigation after he posed with an aborted infant lying on an altar in a video appeal for his supporters to vote for the presidency of Donald Trump. Fr Frank Pavone, the head of the Priests for Life group, faced harsh criticism for…
Church cross vandalised in Limerick
A historical crucifix from the Redemptorist Church, Mount St Alphonsus, Limerick, which was seriously damaged in a vandal attack will be set back in place by Christmas, the man tasked with its repair has vowed. According to reports, the cross was targeted by a man who entered the Redemptorist Church last week and set about…
President-elect trumps media
Dear Editor, It is embarrassing to listen to and read the attempts by the so-called mainstream media to explain away their dishonest and distorted coverage of the US Presidential Election. It is high time they exited their self-created bubble and entered the real world. And what price now the value of the polls they create…
Archbishop is honoured for moral contribution
Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has been named an honorary fellow of Griffith College because of his “outstanding contribution, at home and abroad, to Ireland’s moral ethos”. The honour is given each year to men and women who are viewed as role models for Irish youth. Accepting the honour, Dr Martin praised the values of ordinary…
Recent books in brief
The Passion and the Cross: Daily Reading for Lent by Ronald Rolheiser (Hodder & Stoughton, £7.99) The season before Christmas may seem an odd time to bring out a book for Lent, but publishers move in mysterious ways. This is the cheaper paperback edition of a book that appeared last year. The author is the…
Learning to love afresh
Anne Joyce describes how her mother’s Alzheimer’s led her to a new way of loving
Mercy is a Christian duty
Dear Editor, The year of Mercy concludes on November 13 but Mercy as a Christian duty continues life-long. Pope Francis has given a vital practical example of mercy towards refugees. We shall prepare to celebrate Christmas shortly, shall we say “No room at the Inn” to refugees? Many convents and religious houses have just a…
World News in Brief
Syrian prelate thanks God for survival in gun attack The Syrian Orthodox Vicar of Aleppo has thanked God for his survival during a gun attack as he travelled by car in the country. Msgr Raban Boutros Kassis was struck by two bullets in his shoulder as his car came under attack on the road between…
Squandering a pro-life movement for a tawdry triumph
Among the many depressing pieces published in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s US Presidential election was one at ncregister.com entitled ‘Trump’s Triumph powered by religious voters’. “The next days will allow for careful study of the numbers, but the exit polls found initially that Trump may have carried the largest…