The Church may hold the keys to reviving civic society, a top Anglican theologian tells Greg Daly “Catholic social teaching,” wrote the Guardian columnist Andrew Brown some years ago, in a column otherwise largely critical of the Church, “and the attempts to produce an economics centred around the needs of humans, rather than of…
A medieval friar may hold the keys to tackling modern confusion, Greg Daly is told Today’s young people have a natural craving for a coherent vision of the world and our universities are not helping them towards this, Fr Thomas White OP says, following numerous meetings with students and young academics in top universities…
The murder of dozens of martyrs was nothing short of a devastating tragedy, but it is also an example of the courage and enduring faith of Egypt’s persecuted Christian community. A new book by a renowned German author details his travels to one of the small villages these men came from. He meets their families…
St Pio represents the quiet but courageous mission of Christians across the world, writes Colm Fitzpatrick Oftentimes, religious movies tend to focus on the incredible or miraculous events of an occasion or person, resulting in piety overkill – but one Catholic priest has decided to present the life of a renowned saint in a…
Irish people setting out from Sarria to walk to Santiago de Compostela will find the scenery through which they make their way oddly familiar. Lush and green, it could hardly be more different from the parched plains so emblematic for many of the modern Camino, and will strike many as being almost Irish. They’ll not…
Understanding religion is vital for understanding Ireland, writes Greg Daly One would think that the obvious theme of Prof. Kevin Whelan’s Religion, Landscape & Settlement in Ireland would be that it’s impossible to make sense of the Irish landscape without considering the role of religion, but this isn’t even the half of it, he…
There’s a rich vein of Catholic writing in the modern Irish canon, Greg Daly is told “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…
Retreats offer a chance to spend time with God away from the pressures of the world, Greg Daly is told “The beauty of a retreat is that it is time for you to step away from the everyday and to reconnect with God and your Faith,” according to Noirín Mulhern of Knock Shrine. “I…
Colm Fitzpatrick explores the price of Irish funerals and how to curb the costs Everyone has heard the expression that “nothing in life is free”, but as it turns out, even death can be a pricey affair. With the costs of some funerals toppling into the tens of thousands, it’s no wonder that life expectancy…
Chai Brady discusses addiction, mental health, evil spirits and exorcism with Fr Pat Collins “Who do you think you are, do you think you have any control over me?” Those were the demonic words spoken by a woman in a “gruff raspy voice” alien to her normal inflection, according to Ireland’s most renowned exorcist when he had started praying to expel an evil spirit from her body. Fr…
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