King Felipe invites Pontiff to Spain
Paul Keenan
A truly wicket notion as churches take up their bats
The Catholic Church and Church of England will ‘do battle’ this September, but only to decide whose cricket team is best on the field of play. On September 17, the Vatican St Peter’s team will travel to England’s Kent County Cricket Club at Canterbury Cathedral for a match fixture against a team drawn from members…
Sainthood cause for the ‘fastest nun in the West’
Famed sister faced down Billy the Kid
Former nuncio to Dominican Republic is laicised
Former prelate still wanted for questioning
Pakistan’s highest court orders minority religions protected
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the government there to enact a range of measures to protect religious minorities in a move described as “historic”. In a ruling arising from the September 2013 suicide attack on the All Saints church in Peshawar which claimed 85 lives, Chief Justice Tasaduq Hussain Jillani ordered immediate action in various…
An understanding of reconciliation
Dear Editor, Reading Fr Rolheiser’s article ‘On not being stingy with God’s mercy’ (IC 19/6/14) was a real occasion of breakfast heartburn because of its deficient sense of reconciliation. It was Jesus himself who said “those whose sins you forgive they are forgiven, those whose sins you retain they are retained” (Jn 20:23) when he…
Our Taoiseach is a confused ‘Catholic’
Dear Editor, Michael Kelly’s article on Enda Kenny’s interview with Gay Byrne on the Meaning of Life is spot on. It’s a sad day when a country’s leader, a deeply confused ‘Catholic’ (but non-Catholic Taoiseach) says he doesn’t believe in a personal God but instead believes in a kind of ‘force’ or ‘energy’ throughout the universe. The…
Holding off on judgement
Dear Editor, The Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s TV interview with Gay Byrne may well be an example of ‘muddled Catholicism’ (IC, 29/6/14) but, having viewed it a couple of times, I’m not so sure that most of us are not just as muddled. Certainly the Taoiseach did demonstrate some of the ‘à la carte’ Catholicism that…
The failings of our Church leaders
Dear Editor, The recent episode of The Meaning of Life with Enda Kenny was significant in that his lack of knowledge and belief of the primary things which Jesus taught us through his parables and in the prayers he gave us. This lack of knowledge of the basic tenets of Christianity by Mr Kenny (a…
Remembering an Irish champion of education
Sr Rita Minehan csb The legacy of Laois man, Bishop Daniel Delany extends far beyond the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin and even beyond the shores of Ireland. He was a man of vision and courage, with a passion for mission, and he saw education as the pathway to liberate the people from their misery…