Category: Feature

First digital animations on Amoris Laetitia and a new six-part TV series

WMOF 2018   A new series of digital animations and a six-part television series has been launched as part of ongoing preparations for the World Meeting of Families 2018 and the visit of Pope Francis. Both of these new resources focus on Amoris Laetitia, the document written by Pope Francis on love in the family. Amoris
 Animations The Amoris Animations, the first created…

The heroism of the habit

Matthew Carlson explores the rise and recession of Belfast’s Poor Clares   Nuns are often portrayed in popular media as frail, silent and hidden away from the rest of the world, but the profound story of one religious order in Ireland has flipped that paradigm on its head. The Poor Clares in Belfast were a…

Blessed be the comedians

Colm Fitzpatrick talks to international comedian Tim Vine about God, laughter and his new Irish tour   It’s not often that comedy and religion appear together in the same sentence in an Irish context – usually musings of Father Ted or the sketches of the late Dave Allen take that prize – but a famous…

Andrea Bocelli highlights value of family

WMOF 2018   Family is the “strongest building block of society” according to Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli who been confirmed to sing at the Festival of Families in Croke Park on August 25. The event is a celebration of family life and is expected to be one of the highlights of the WMOF with Pope…

Learning to live without limits

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 Carlson   The voices of young people singing Party in the USA echoed through the halls of St Catherine’s College in Armagh City last week, marking the final week of the Michaela Foundation hosting their annual summer camps. The charity was set up in memory of Michaela McAreavey who was murdered while on her honeymoon…