In a world that continues to grapple with the echoes of history, a recent report from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) sheds light on the remarkable resilience of a quarter of a million Holocaust survivors still living today. This report, based on data collected by the Claims Conference, provides a…
A new collection showcases diversity of the Catholic poetry, hears Ruadhán Jones Catholicism and art, like faith and science, are not supposed to mix. Art is about ‘freethinking’, so it is assumed that subscribing to dogma can only limit your talent. A new book on Catholic poets blows this myth out of the water. Collated…
Lorraine Mulholland We know about saints’ lives through monks called hagiographers. Scholars say that you must bear in mind before you read the stories below, that hagiographers wrote about a saint’s way of life, rather than history as we know it today. One of St Brigid’s seven hagiographers, for example, was St Cogitosus, who wrote…
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…
Chai Brady
Ruadhán Jones
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