Cardinal Newman – Special Supplement Newman had a profound influence on a German anti-Nazi group, writes Greg Daly “But we know by whom we were created, and that we stand in a relationship of moral obligation to our creator. Conscience gives us the capacity to distinguish between good and evil,” wrote Fritz Hartnagel, a young…
Cardinal Newman-Special Supplement “It is a curious thing, do you know,” observes a friend of Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce’s alter ego in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, “how your mind is supersaturated in the religion in which you say you disbelieve.” For Notre Dame’s Prof. Declan Kiberd, Ireland’s major writers…
Cardinal Newman-Special Supplement Conscience was for Newman the connecting principle between man and God, writes Fr Stuart P. Chalmers Blessed John Henry Newman is often quoted in relation to his toast to conscience and its dignity. However, at times the quote from his Letter to the Duke of Norfolk is misrepresented as if it were…
Greed and the “narrowness of vision” of caring just for our own town, city or country are part of an ‘old culture’ that must be changed to avert disaster, according to the keynote speaker at the Faith and Life Convention in Belfast over the weekend. Dr Michel Camdessus, former Director of the International Monetary Fund,…
The Pope John Paul II Award is merely a gong with no real value unless those doing it “take seriously how the Gospel can help us understand where our society is damaging itself”, Derry’s Bishop Donal McKeown told young people at Knock Shrine on Friday. Speaking at the National Pope John Paul II Award Pilgrimage,…
Over 60 missionaries and mission staff from across the world have been commissioned for another year of ministry in Ireland. Bishop Alan McGuckian of Raphoe celebrated a Commissioning Mass for NET missionaries who began their work last week. Hailing from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Hungary, Northern Ireland, and the US with a strong Irish…
It’s been 40 years since Pope St John Paul II’s iconic visit to Ireland, which drew crowds of millions. Since then Ireland has changed dramatically, but his messages of peace and faith are as relevant today as if they were said yesterday. The Polish Pontiff, who was just 59 years old at the time, kissed…
Chai Brady speaks to an Irish missionary about the Church in South Africa, and what the Irish Church can learn from it After celebrating Mass in a church high in the South African mountains, an Irish missionary saw a man approaching him in a way that spelled danger; he had not seen him at the…
We have to keep hoping in the midst of crises and in the face of our fears, writes Fr Thomas Casey SJ “They’re not ornaments you know,” Padre Pio once exclaimed to a zealous pilgrim who grabbed his hands so firmly that the Capuchin saint began to writhe in pain. Padre Pio suffered from the…
Prisoners in Ethiopia have been shedding light on remarkable people who made a huge contribution to our world, writes Fr Paddy Moran CSSp Recently an exhibition of Irish prison art was put on display in the historic Kilmainham Gaol. The exhibition was entitled ‘Unlock’ and was described as a “showcase of the work of…
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