When Presentation Sisters reflect on Vocation Sunday, the timing of the annual day of prayer influences their reflection. The day is placed in the post-Easter calendar, the same time of the year as when the foundress of Presentation Sisters, Nano Nagle, passed from the world (26th April 1784). One month after her death one of…
Before capitulating to the law of the jungle, it is worth thinking about triage and euthanasia writes Dr Catherine Kavanagh Discussion is raging all over the internet (which is currently the only place where it can rage) about triage. Anecdotal claims are being made that automatic ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ (DNR) orders are being requested…
Exclusive Excerpt Freedom From Evil Spirits – Released from Fear, Addiction & The Devil Fr Pat Collins CM (Columba Books, €12.99) Chapter Twenty-One: Overcoming Temptation The temptation to sin is a characteristic of every human life. In Genesis we are told how Adam and Eve were tempted by the devil in the Garden of Eden.…
Fr Seán Maher I walk into the wounded Christ in our world today. This walk begins with a phone call. ‘Naas Hospital’ flashes up on the screen of the phone. And you know that this means some more Covid-19 patients need to be anointed. You answer the phone and hear that there’s three patients on…
Ireland has been quick to congratulate itself on the response to Covid-19, but for all the rhetoric there is precious little evidence that talk of solidarity extends to nursing homes, writes Michael Kelly When this current pandemic passes – and pass it will – undoubtedly many people will breathe a sigh of relief. Those…
The Celtic Tiger did more damage to Ireland’s soul than the British did in 800 years, Aidan Donaldson tells Martin O’Brien You come away from a few hours with Aidan Donaldson uplifted and challenged in equal measure and with a lot of think about. He says: “The Church has a choice: to keep with…
If it becomes necessary to treat some and not others, this must be based on defined criteria and not the personal discretion of doctors writes Martin M. Lintner “I would never have thought I would have to experience the necessity of triage again in my life,” an older colleague who remembers well the grim…
While the coronavirus means we can’t travel, we can still be transported to the heart of the faith writes Ruadhán Jones The practice of making pilgrimage has a long history in the Church, reaching back to the 4th Century. Christians would travel to the sites of Christ’s life, or to the graves of martyrs…
Exclusive Excerpt Sr Colette – Ireland Sr Colette is Mother Abbess of the Poor Clare nun’s in Galway. As a young woman she graduated as an accountant, had a healthy social life and a few boyfriends. After watching a video on Medjugorje she became intrigued by the story of the apparitions and ended up visiting…
Calls are growing for the canonisation of a Derry-born nun with people attributing favours to her intercession, writes Ruadhan Jones April 16 marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Derry woman Sr Clare Crockett in 2016. She died a relative unknown in an earthquake in Ecuador where she was ministering. She was there…
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