Eucharist is essential food for the daily journeys of a group of sisters, writes Susan Gately The Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, dressed in white habits, arrived in Roscommon town last May. “People are very open and friendly. They meet us on the streets and beep their horns at us because most…
The St Patrick of popular lore was the creation of the 7th-Century Church, writes Thomas O’Loughlin Memory is our key both to the past and to our identity, and we are usually fairly certain about the overall architecture of the edifice known as ‘our story’. Turning to Patrick – a crucial figure in Irish…
Text of keynote address by Mary McAleese, President of Ireland 1997-2011, at the Voices of Faith International Women’s Day Conference. Theme: Why women matter. March 8, 2018 at the Jesuit Curia, Rome “Historical oppression of women has deprived the human race of untold resources, true progress for women cannot fail to liberate enormous reserves…
“It has been the best day of my life.” This is the verdict of a twenty-year-old third level student – no, not at the end of a day of retreat, but in a quiet moment at the end of a day spent working at the construction of a humble little home for a needy Indian…
Visitors to the Chester Beatty Library have a chance to see one of the city’s religious and artistic treasures, writes Greg Daly Today’s Divine Office is a simpler set of prayers than that which previous generations of Catholics were faced. Putting forward a new revised Liturgy of the Hours in 1970, Pope Paul VI…
With the World Meeting of Families (WMOF) less than six months away the new prior of Lough Derg is looking forward to the major event, and hoping he can encourage pilgrims to pray for its success. Fr Laurence (La) Flynn has been behind the wheel at Lough Derg since October last year, and has a…
The last two Mondays have seen representatives from two of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore’s pastoral areas meeting at the Granville and Woodlands hotels as part of an ambitious listening process with a view to updating the diocese’s pastoral plan. The context for this, according to Bishop Phonsie Cullinan, is Pope Francis’ vision for…
The Bishop of Dromore tells Martin O’Brien about ‘missed opportunities’ to expose appalling crimes During my long stint producing BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence, dominated by the apparently unending clerical sex abuse scandals, one bishop was more available than any other to come on the radio to face the music. That bishop demonstrated then…
Fr Pat O’Hagan In anticipation for the World Meeting of Families the Diocese of Derry held a conference entitled ‘A Celebration of Family’, which was organised by the diocesan working group set up by Bishop Donal McKeown in December 2016 The venue was St Mary’s College on Derry’s Northland Road, and it proved to…
The Divine Mercy Conference is about bringing God’s mercy to the world, writes Greg Daly “Divine Mercy has been top of the agenda for the last three Popes,” says Don Devaney, organiser of the Divine Mercy Conference that will see thousands gather in Dublin’s RDS this weekend. “They recognised that God’s mercy is for…
Susan Gately
Greg Daly
Chai Brady
Martin O'Brien