Transition year students at St Mary’s Baldoyle, Dublin, finished off their year in style with a musical performance and graduation night. St Mary’s Baldoyle deputy principal John Moore said that the show, which took five days to produce, was “just brilliant. “Well done to the Transition Years on an amazing performance which, under the guidance…
Personal profile When Msgr Basil O’Sullivan entered All Hallows in September 1950, along with 33 other young men, he did so out of desire to be of service to the global Church. And since his ordination in 1956, he has spent his life ministering to the people of Scotland, a country where he gave and…
Personal profile The Catechism of the Catholic Church was released 30 years ago this year. For the last 25 years, Máirín Ní Shúilleabháin has travelled from Derry to Kerry, from Mayo to Wexford promoting the catechism and helping to catechise Catholics across the island of Ireland. Ms Ní Shúilleabháin’s faith came down to her through…
Dr David Bentley Hart warns that the vestiges of Christian thought are in danger of disappearing, Ruadhán Jones hears “We’re at a moment now where you can see that the classical liberal consensus is beginning to break down,” Dr David Bentley Hart says early in our discussion. And as classical liberalism is in retreat, the…
Young adults from all over the Diocese of Cork and Ross gathered in the Student Centre, UCC, on Sunday May 22 to discuss the challenge of living their faith today. The event called ‘CONNECT’ brought together over a hundred representatives from parishes and youth groups within the diocese to share, reflect, celebrate and pray together.…
Maynooth Union is holding a two-day conference of talks that seek to lay the groundwork for the future of the Church in Ireland. The conference, which takes place June 14-15 in Maynooth and is titled ‘A Synodal Church: Adapting for Mission’, will cover topics from the import of synodality to communicating the Church’s message in…
Clonard Monastery in Belfast is launching, new peace and reconciliation resources for young people and parishes in honour of campaigning priest Fr Gerry Reynolds. Fr Reynolds and the Redemptorist community in Clonard played a significant role in building peace during the Troubles in the North, particularly through outreach to other Christian communities. The new resources…
Irish nun and provincial of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles Sr Kathleen McGarvey has criticised the “frightening” lack of attention paid to Nigeria by the global community. Sr Kathleen McGarvey’s comments come as the European Parliament voted against a motion to debate the European Commission’s position on Christian persecution, in particular…
There will be a difficult period of transition ahead for the Church in Ireland, as numbers of clergy decline, Bishop Michael Router warned recently. However, this provides “a wonderful opportunity for all the Faithful to realise that they have a crucial role to play”, the auxiliary bishop of Armagh said May 27. Bishop Router was…
We can’t think coherently about humanity if we don’t think about God, Prof. Judith Wolfe tells Ruadhán Jones What is the relevance of the TV series Game of Thrones to a Catholic thinker? And what does its efforts to overthrow the world of Catholic author JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings tell us about…