Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has offered a personal donation to restoration works on the tomb of Jesus at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Mr Abbas announced his intention to make such a donation during an October 17 visit to the West Bank of Christian Church leaders representing the faith traditions having special responsibility for…
Courtney McGrail
Children of war
Iraqi children who escaped fi erce fi ghting in Mosul rest on the ground October 20 upon reaching the Syrian border near Hassakeh. Photo: CNS
A call to community
Sophie Overall meets Augustinian vocations director Fr Colm O’Mahony
A Rosary from Rome
Ruth McGee with Fr Gabriel Harty OP and Brid Galligan, Principal of St Malachy's Girls' National School. Sixth-class student Ruth wrote to Pope Francis to praise the 95-year-old school chaplain Fr Harty, and was amazed last week to receive a letter from the Vatican, saying the Pope wanted to thank her, and that he appreciated…
A strong leader in a time of Irish turbulence
Thomas Hussey (1746-1803): Bishop of Waterford & Lismore by Liam Murphy (Kingdom Books, €20)
Compile a single book of Church’s 1916 records
Dear Editor, The extracts from Fr Columbus Murphy’s personal account of the 1916 Rising (‘Mercy amongst the mayhem’, IC 20/10/2016) were absolutely enthralling, and a fine counterpart to the similar piece drawn from his fellow Capuchin Fr Aloysius Travers’ somewhat later account that you published last year in your 1916 special. At this point, as…
The bolder dream of friendship
“Our aim should not be the domination of the Islamic world; our aim should be friendship”, writes Fr Conor McDonough
Defending and debating faith-based schools
Dublin was the setting for a major conference on faith schools and their continuing relevance, organised by The Irish Catholic and St Mary’s University, Twickenham
Dylan’s Nobel prize awards many cultures
The World of Books
Peelo’s findings would pose problems
Dear Editor, While Mick Peelo is to be thanked for his belated recognition and publicising of the fact that the vast majority of Ireland’s abusers and would-be abusers are not clergy, I cannot but wonder about the wisdom of how he talks about how this might be handled (‘Time to end zero tolerance?’ IC 20/10/2016).…