David Goodwin tells Ruadhán Jones what it’s like to be a Catholic ice hockey player There’s a stereotype about ice hockey that it’s a physically demanding game and occasionally violent. “I would say the stereotype is accurate,” David Goodwin tells me. He adds the caveat that it’s not much more so than Gaelic football. All…
The mystery of sin rests, not on questions of moral right and wrong, but in faith that God can put all things right, writes Fr Philip Endean SJ Shortly before the Council of Ephesus (431), and independently, St Augustine was reflecting on the scope of Christ’s saving work, and its relationship to our good behaviour. Starting from…
Catholic parents are very concerned about amoral sexual teaching, Fr Chris Hayden tells Ruadhán Jones How can Catholics talk about the Church’s teachings on sex and sexuality? The answer seems to be, with difficulty. Fr Sean Sheehy’s sermon little more than a month ago brought those teachings into focus and stirred up a great deal…
While the European Union is not perfect, we must recognise its achievements, the new Irish EU nuncio tells Chai Brady There are matters of “serious concern” for the Church regarding certain manoeuvrings within the European Union, but there are Catholic organisations and people working to make sure they are challenged, according to the new Apostolic…
66 years after it first opened at 42 Parnell Square in our Capital City the Moving Crib is still going strong. In fact, in a world where many have lost their way it is more relevant than ever before. Pay a visit to The Moving Crib from 24th November – 8th January and be reminded…
Pioneering Mother Murphy shared God’s joy with the black community in Texas, writes Ruadhán Jones “Blacks in San Antonio were largely ignored both by the state and the Catholic Church until a wealthy, Irish-born, 54-year-old widow, Margaret Mary Healy-Murphy, moved to San Antonio in 1887 and heeded the call of the bishops in Baltimore for…
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”… so wrote Joseph Addison over 300 years ago. Most of us have memories of being read to as children and the pleasure it gave us, although of course we did not know then that because of the learning potential, the effects of reading on…
The Sunday Gospel Today, the last Sunday of the liturgical year is when we celebrate Jesus Christ, the Universal King. The end of the liturgical year anticipates the end of time when “the kingdom of God will come in all its fulness. Then the just will reign with Jesus Christ for ever, glorified in body…
Don’t allow pro-life men to be shut out of discussions on abortion, Chai Brady hears The “myth” that abortion is an inevitability and is here to stay must be tackled in Ireland, a prominent pro-life activist has warned, particularly as a third of people voted against legalising abortion. The 2018 referendum was a difficult loss…
The Sunday Gospel Purgation is a process of purification. Purgatory is not specifically mentioned in the Bible but the doctrine of purgatory is a beautiful development which holds in unity two ideas which might seem to be contradictory. Firstly, the doctrine of God’s holiness reminds us of God’s unique otherness, glory and blinding light, far…
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