Dear Editor, It is now generally stated that Mrs Hillary Clinton and Mr Donald J Trump are among the least honest and least trusted persons in the US. Such is the skewed coverage of the Presidential Election by most of the media, particularly the detractors of Donald Trump, that the media in general will soon…
Courtney McGrail
Bishop offers heartbreaking eyewitness account of Libya’s ‘illegal’ migrants
The Coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli in Libya has offered a snapshot account of the situation in the troubled country and the “distorted perception” illegal migrants have of Europe. Currently in Rome, Bishop George Bugeja told the Fides news agency that while the situation in Libya “is generally calm” there are occasional clashes…
The miracle of life
Pope Francis holds a baby during a September 16 visit to the neonatal unit at Rome’s San Giovanni Hospital. Photo: CNS
Poor Clares report ongoing interest in contemplative life
The Poor Clare Sisters in Co. Galway have said there is continuing interest in the contemplative life of their order despite the lures of modern life. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper this week following the latest Monastic Experience Day at their Nun’s Island convent, Sr Faustina of the Poor Clares said while those visiting…
Auschwitz was not ‘in Poland’
Dear Editor, In an article on the visit of the relics of St Maximilian Kolbe to Ireland (IC 15/09/2016) you state that “the relic of the saint who was martyred to save the life of another prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland will be in Ireland for the first time in October”. I would…
Living off our Christian capital
“The Bible is the first text to represent victimisation from the standpoint of the victim, and it is this representation which is responsible, ultimately, for our own superior sensibility to violence,” according to the late French philosopher-anthropologist René Girard, observing with reference to some of the Bible’s more violent passages that, “it is for biblical…
How to smell a rose
Rachel Beard talks to Carmelite nuns in Delgany about living a contemplative life
Blessing the new school year
Ukrainian Catholic Fr Mykhailo Romaniuk blesses families from the Ukrainian community of Paris, France in St Volodymyr the Great Cathedral to mark the beginning of the new school year. Photo: CNS
An admirer of Saint Teresa
Dear Editor, I read with interest David Quinn’s article (IC 8/9/16) on the critics of Mother Teresa who have been so vocal in recent days. Strange though it may sound Mother Teresa did have one rather unlikely admirer. In his autobiography written some years ago, Bob Geldof speaks very favourably of Mother Teresa. The work is…
Vatican Roundup
Pope prays for nun murdered in Haiti Pope Francis has offered prayers for a Spanish missionary sister killed in Haiti. At the conclusion of events marking the canonisation of St Teresa of Kolkata in Rome on September 4, the Pope recalled Sr Isabel Sola Macas, murdered in a robbery on September 2. “At this moment, I would like to remember those…