The star that guided the Magi guides us today, writes Paula Freney In my family, the Christmas season always began with the crib being taken down from the attic, out of its cardboard box, and placed on the mantlepiece in our front room. It was bought before my parents’ first Christmas together, a small,…
The Church needs you as much as you need it, writes Colm Fitzpatrick If God loves all of us, why doesn’t he explicitly reveal himself to everyone so that there would be no doubt of his existence? Surely, if God can do all logically possible things it would be a piece of cake for…
100 years on… The once dominant home rulers had no answers to the big questions facing Ireland in 1918, writes Gabriel Doherty We now know that the armistice of November 11, 1918 marked the end of hostilities of World War I, even if legally the conflict did not end until the ratification of the…
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…
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