The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 Professor Nick Maynard is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University Hospital in England who has been visiting Gaza regularly since 2010. Working with Trócaire’s partner organisation Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Prof. Maynard has travelled to Gaza three times since the latest devastating war began last October, putting himself at great personal risk…

The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 It all started with two Franciscan friars and a cup of tea in 1969. Ireland’s most beloved charity has spoken the language of the human heart ever since — here for the homeless and hungry for more than five decades, thanks to the caring donations of everyday people.…

The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 Home. It’s where you feel most secure. Where your loved ones and your memories are. Where you can be most yourself. But today, for thousands here in Ireland, the stark reality of their lives is homelessness, emergency accommodation or the awful looming threat that they are weeks, days…

The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 I am writing this from the Mater hospital. I went in last week with a sore throat and a week later I am just on the verge of getting out. I have always been healthy. I don’t think I have ever taken a sick-day in more than 25…

The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 LauraLynn is Ireland’s only Children’s Hospice, providing hospice, palliative care and support for children with life-limiting conditions and their families from across Ireland. Looking after a child with palliative care needs is one of the most challenging things a family can face. Beyond the physical challenges and medical…

The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 Five years ago, Beauty Nanyangwe, a single guardian to her two young nephews, was struggling to support her small family with the meagre income she earned from poorly-paid piecework. When the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary offered a ‘Households in Distress’ project in her…

Like the Shroud of Turin, the sacred object for The Virgin of Guadalupe is a piece of fabric, with an image imprint believed to be miraculous. The Patron of the Americas and Queen of Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe presented herself as the Mother of God on a Mexican hill in the 16th Century. Juan…

The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 Discover how Your Legacy can support Respond’s mission to Build Homes and Improve Lives by including a Gift in Your Will Ireland is facing a severe housing crisis, with more people than ever before experiencing homelessness. This has placed tremendous pressure on services across the country. Respond works…

Saint Bernadette Special The relics of the saints are a trusted way to draw closer to God, writes Michael Kelly Catholic veneration of relics – body parts and indeed objects linked to the lives of holy men and women – goes right back to the early Church. The bodies of the martyrs were often retrieved…

Saint Bernadette Special Seldom do events or phenomena have a timeless appeal. Global juggernauts in the form of organisations and large-scale companies have tried and mostly failed to perfect products, slogans or inventive designs that transcend generations and secure permanent lustre. As Catholics, we’re reminded to stray away from the material and the commercial, but…