Consecrated Life Supplement Interact with most under a certain age without the advantage of perspective and you’re likely to subscribe to the view that the past is a snarling beast, whose remnants continue to lurk our free and tolerant society with a menace that needs to be attentively fended off wherever it’s perceived to be…
Consecrated Life Supplement Fr Bryan Shortall OFM. Cap. Consecrated life is the free and generous choice a woman or a man makes to follow God in the religious life, living with others in community and living the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The man who feels he might have a call to live his…
Consecrated Life Supplement In March we celebrate International Women’s Day. So today I want to tell you part of the story of Sr Nina Underwood MMM. I say part of the story because recently I read her account of being kidnapped by guerrilla fighters during a bloody civil war. But we will let that part…
Graiguecullen’s parish church was packed for the feast of Jesus’ Baptism, as children baptised in 2023 received a blessing from Fr John Dunphy PP. The blessing was given to the babies and their parents as they continue their faith journey together. The parish’s baptismal ministers gifted each family with a prayer card, a little bottle…
Bro. Luke McNamara OSB On the eve of the Epiphany in brilliant sunshine that seemed to promise better days are coming, a large group of volunteers, in a quarter of an acre plot in a field just South East of the Front Gate, planted 2,500 native Irish trees. The density of planting follows the Akire…
The famous Irish author had a different type of religion, writes Aubrey Malone John McGahern had well documented problems with the Church, and with his faith, but he always struck me as having a holy sense about him, even a monastic one. It was in his simple bearing, his self-effacing nature, in the frugality of…
Priests have been encouraged to hold the line on improper requests at funerals, writes Chai Brady Living in a community in which every neighbour knows who to watch out for in order to steer clear of drug dealing and violence is an unfortunate reality. To allow a church to be used to idolise a person…
Campus chaplaincies are growing rapidly across the island of Ireland, hears Ruadhán Jones When Census 2022 came out, the drop in numbers identifying as Catholic came as little surprise. However, when it came to the under 30s there was an unexpected revelation – the majority still identify as Catholic. This reality goes against the grain…
Chasing tornadoes has shown storm chaser Tanner Charles a side of God that few ever see, writes Jason Osborne t’s a fascination many have, but few follow through on. The elegant – violent – twisting and meandering of tornadoes across endless plains speaks more loudly of creation’s grandeur than most other natural phenomena. I couldn’t…
One of the oldest living Carry On actors and Catholic convert talks to Ruadhán Jones It’s hard to believe that Knock International Eucharistic and Marian Shrine has a devotee in a Carry On actor. Those British films, now considered national treasures, are known more for bawdy humour and innuendos than faith and morals. But with…
Brandon Scott
Ruadhán Jones
Aubrey Malone
Chai Brady