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…
Covid-19 has achieved in a few short weeks what colonial powers and cultural Marxists couldn’t achieve for the last 1,600 years writes Dr Michael Kinsella There is a violence to the virulence of Covid-19. Its capacity to wreak financial and societal upheaval is now well-established in the Western world where we, alas, all too…
Fr Chris Alar MIC dispels myths about the Church’s teaching on suicide, writes Chai Brady Suicide has a devastating impact, but there is hope for the salvation of those who have died by their own hand and for the people who are left behind according to a US priest who has personal experience, and…
The call to stay home and save lives is also an inner call, write Declan Marmion and Ann Guinee Covid-19 has disrupted our lifestyles, our work, and our way of communicating with each other. The initial impulse to stockpile, whether it was toilet paper or hand sanitiser, was a balm of sorts. Happily, that…
I cannot attend Mass but that does not mean I am somehow distant from God writes Bairbre Cahill When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about sometimes finding prayer a struggle I could not have contemplated the situation we now find ourselves in. I know many of us share a deep loneliness that…
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