We are called to look at our beloved, broken and beautiful earth and see the weeping face of God in it, writes Fr Daniel O’Leary You are away from your family. Your family is in trouble. You pray for the family. You hope the prayers will work. But you are still anxious. You decide to…

The Sunday Gospel Fr Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap. Today we have John’s version of the cleansing of the temple, anticipating the replacement of temple worship by the worship of God through the risen Lord (John 2:13-25). Herod the Great, a man of mixed racial lineage, desiring to ingratiate himself with the Jews decided to build…

English Catholic poet Sally Read, tells Ruadhán Jones what Catholicism taught her about life and art Can you remember what you were doing this time 11 years ago? Early spring of 2010 was cold and blustery; or was it? Did I go for a trip away, was I busy with work? Seasons come and go…

Belief in Jesus Christ and God as our Creator remains absolutely compatible with science, writes Dr Brian Wilson As a young Catholic increasingly curious and hungry for more knowledge of the Faith, I find that rather than holding my faith back, my scientific training has helped to deepen it. After taking time to understand and…

The Sunday Gospel Fr Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap. Lent takes us from last Sunday’s encounter with Satan in the wilderness to this Sunday’s vision of the transfigured Lord on the mountain (Mark 9:2-10). Jesus took three apostles, Peter, James and John with him up a high mountain where they could be alone. From a mountain…

Despite its enduring popularity, the Lenten period is sorely misunderstood by many, Chai Brady writes It has been joked that the Lenten period never ended last year as the rolling pandemic restrictions meant everyone having to make tough sacrifices, but Lent is much more than just forgoing pleasurable activities, food or drink – which it…

One of the deepest things being lost today is the sense of wonder before the mystery of existence and reality as a whole, writes Philip Gonzales For both Plato and Aristotle philosophy begins in wonder. But, with Plato, I also think that philosophy should never seek to dispel wonder. Wonder, then, should be the very…

A new million-euro initiative hopes to ‘imagine a future’ for Catholic education in Ireland, Fr Eamonn Conway tells Ruadhán Jones Mary Immaculate College (MIC) recently announced it is leading an “exciting” new global project on Catholic education after receiving €950,000 in funding. Their aim is to make a “decisive contribution to the repositioning of Catholic education…

Direct provision compounds the suffering of asylum seekers who were torture victims, writes Chai Brady Torture has always been an horrific reality for humanity and to this day atrocities are being committed against people for nothing other than their faith, political belief, ethnicity and sexuality in many parts of the world. Some of the victims…

Ruadhán Jones recommends films and TV sure to help you enter fully into the season of Lent It was around this time last year that a new show was making waves in Christian circles. The Chosen’s first season premiered April 2019, and was streamed for free on YouTube over Easter 2020, when it became a…