A medieval crozier newly on show in the National Museum is one of the most important in Europe, writes Greg Daly It seemed appropriate that the National Museum of Ireland on Dublin’s Kildare Street unveiled its latest acquisition, the so-called Prosperous Crozier, on the feast of Dublin’s patron saint, St Laurence O’Toole. Found in…
A sense of history is needed to talk sensibly about God, a leading ecumenist tells Martin O’Brien Dr Johnston McMaster, ecumenist intellectual, teacher and advocate of “public theology”, author and Methodist minister, one-time youngest soccer player in the Irish League at 15, chooses his words carefully but there’s no mistaking his disappointment at where…
100 years on… The end of WWI saw this paper taking a clear anti-Sinn Féin line, writes Gabriel Doherty Given the seismic nature of the events on the Western Front over the previous month, it is no surprise that The Irish Catholic of November 23, 1918 devoted a portion of its pages to further…
100 years on… Ireland greeted the First World War with a mixture of relief and uncertainty, writes Gabriel Doherty It comes as no surprise to find that the pages of the edition of The Irish Catholic dated November 16, 1918 were dominated by news of the armistice, which had been signed five days before…
100 Years On… As the Great War drew to a close, this paper looked to what the future might hold, writes Gabriel Doherty ‘Is peace imminent?’ ‘German plenipotentiaries for armistice’ ‘Arrival at meeting place’ With such headlines in its edition of November 9, 1918, The Irish Catholic announced, for the benefit of those not…
Pope Francis’ visit to the Capuchin Day Centre on Dublin’s Church Street this summer was a special moment for Threshold, the homelessness prevention charity, according to Threshold CEO John-Mark McCafferty. “The papal visit – the fact that the Pope went to Brother Kevin’s place, a Capuchin just round the corner from here is absolutely key…
One of the most remarkable things about Trócaire, according to Seán Farrell, director of the charity’s international division, is its reach. Best known to Irish people as the Irish bishops’ relief and development agency, the organisation is part of the Church’s global relief and development agency Caritas Internationalis, second in scale only to the Red…
Death comes to us all, and in recent years there’s been an ongoing debate about how we can die with dignity. For the Irish Hospice Foundation, a key part of the answer is bringing hospice-style care to wider society. “In 1986 we were formed by an inspirational lady, Dr Mary Redmond, the late Dr Mary…
If liberalism is in trouble nowadays, it’s not because it’s failed but because it’s succeeded. That, at any rate is the theory of US academic Patrick Deneen, whose latest book, Why Liberalism Failed, has been making ripples since it was published early this year and who spoke last week in Dublin’s Notre Dame-Newman Centre for…
Born in west Clare, one of eight children, Spiritan priest Fr Martin Kelly CSSp has been national director of World Missions Ireland since January, and seems well qualified for it with over two dozen years on the missions in Ethiopia under his belt. “Over 40 years I was there for 28 years, one batch of…
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