The Sunday Gospel St Luke seems to have been fascinated by food! Even the Risen Lord asked the stunned disciples, “have you anything here to eat?” (Luke 24:41). Luke recalls ten meals, each with a distinctive setting and a special message. The last supper and the welcoming banquet for the return of the prodigal son…
Christianity is key to fighting racism and nationalism, John Milbank tells Ruadhán Jones While modern secularism seeks to push religion, particularly Christianity, to the borders of society, English philosopher and theologian John Milbank says we must not go into our bunkers. Christianity is vital to tackling the modern “secular religiosities” of racism, nationalism and liberal…
The Sunday Gospel On the road to Jerusalem Jesus taught the way of discipleship. The spiritual life has been compared to a tripod supported on the legs of prayer, study of our religion and practical action. Today’s Gospel, the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 15: 10-37), is about love in action. On the Sundays in…
In today’s Gospel (Luke 10:1-12. 17-20) the Lord sent out 72 disciples in pairs to prepare the towns he was to visit. His instruction was more about practical example than about talk. St Francis is reputed to have advised the brothers to preach at all times, sometimes using words. Actions speak more loudly than words.…
Brenda Drumm The World Meeting of Families 2022 (WMOF2022) concluded last weekend in Rome with a mission offered to all families by Pope Francis to: “Proclaim the beauty of being family with joy! Proclaim the grace of Christian marriage to children and young people.” The WMOF2022 was different from previous World Meetings as it was…
Poetry has changed throughout the years both negatively and positively with the revolution of self-published poets and international poetry being hugely influential, according to well-known poet John F. Deane. Speaking to The Irish Catholic he explains there are many more voices on the scene compared to when he set out. There were the great masters…
If we all went home and loved our families, the world would be a better place, was Tyrone footballer Peter Harte’s message for families in Drumragh parish as he quoted St Mother Teresa. Occasioned by the World Meeting of Families in Rome, Drumragh parish in Omagh, Co. Tyrone celebrated a ‘vocation of the family Mass’…
Irish people should be proud of their Defence Forces despite much of their work being behind the scenes, an army chaplain tells Chai Brady The work of Irish peacekeepers can often be forgotten and despite the shadow of Covid and all the subsequent restrictions, their foreign missions with the UN far from home were maintained.…
The Sunday Gospel Mass this Sunday puts aside the purple vestments of Lent and the white vestments of Eastertide as we return to the green of Ordinary Time. We take up from where we left off before Lent with Luke’s Gospel as our guiding light for the rest of the year. There is an old tradition that,…
The Church is doing gay Catholics a disservice by watering down teaching on homosexuality, hears Jason Osborne The term ‘LGBT’ is reductionist and if the Church bends to change its teaching on the matter, “the entire edifice of its teaching on sexuality collapses”. So says John (not his real name), a Catholic who prefers to…
Ruadhán Jones
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