Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly explores the roots of the title Our Lady used at Lourdes “I am the Immaculate Conception,” St Bernadette was told when, on March 25 1858, the simple peasant girl asked the lady who appeared to her who she was. Not knowing what this meant, the young girl hurried…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly looks at the first ever Irish national pilgrimage to Lourdes September 1913 may to most Irish people be a date forever linked with the Dublin lock-out and Yeats’s poem about Dublin Corporation’s failure to provide a home for the Hugh Lane paintings, but it was also the…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly talks to Ireland’s man on Lourdes’s international medical bureau Belfast doctor Michael Moran, the first Irishman to serve on the International Medical Committee of Lourdes, has been a regular pilgrim to the shrine for over 20 years. “I think I was there as a child with Mum…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Lourdes poses serious challenges for honest inquiring minds, writes Greg Daly There is something inexplicable about the miracles of Lourdes, according to the Nobel-prize-winning doctor who was one of three scientists credited with having discovered HIV. A non-believer, Prof. Luc Montagnier is currently based at Shanghai Jiao Tong University…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly writes of how Lourdes surprised two famous Catholic writers At Lourdes in May 1936, just a few weeks before his death, G.K. Chesterton commented of the crowds at the torchlight procession: “This is the only real League of Nations.” The English author had in fact been reluctant…
A group which campaigned for reduced religious influence in Church-owned schools was forced to close down following a series of complaints to the State’s ethics watchdog over controversial funding, The Irish Catholic understands. ‘Equate: Equality in Education’ was established in October 2015, aiming to change the law so that oversubscribed Church-owned schools would not be…
Ireland medical professionals will face dilemmas around abortion and conscience similar to those faced by their British peers if constitutional protections for the unborn are abolished, Baroness Nuala O’Loan has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic following the second reading in the House of Lords of the Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill, which she introduced,…
Catholic education offers a way of bridging religious and secular ways of looking at the world, Killaloe’s Bishop Fintan Monahan has said. Speaking in St Flannan’s College, Ennis, this week, Bishop Monahan launched Catholic Schools Week by calling to mind the motto of Cistercian College, Roscrea, which can be loosely translated, he said, as “while…
The German bishops’ conference has decided to stick with traditional translations of the Lord’s Prayer. The decision comes after the French bishops decided that beginning early December last year, French Catholics would change the line, “Lead us not into temptation,” to the equivalent of “do not let us enter into temptation.” The common Spanish translation…
True preaching is a ‘slap’, something startling and challenging, rather than comforting and reassuring, Pope Francis said in this morning’s homily at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican. Noting that St Paul did not soften his proclamation of the Faith with half-truths, the Pope said that preaching “cannot be lukewarm”. “Preaching always – let me…