The sisters of Kylemore Abbey are a hardworking group of nuns who welcome tens of thousands of eager visitors each year to their home in the heart of Connemara. The nuns are famous for their delicious home-baking and the wholesome food in the abbey restaurant and tea rooms. Built as a breath-taking castle in 1868…
Gratitude to the stories that formed him drives one of England’s leading Catholic writers, writes Greg Daly Liverpool, that most Irish of English cities, is still a place with Catholicism in its bones, and a natural home even now for the Liverpool-born writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce. “I have been other places,” he says, having studied…
100 years on.. Catholic voters had to wait a fortnight to learn the results of the 1918 election, writes Gabriel Doherty Following several months of feverish military and political activity, punctuated by a series of authentically earth-shattering events, The Irish Catholic, in its number for the week ending Saturday, December 21, 1918, registered a sudden…
The Camino de Santiago was a very different experience in the Middle Ages, writes Greg Daly A biography of Red Hugh O’Donnell, written a few years after the Gaelic lord’s death in 1602, made much of how the earl had visited Breóghan’s Tower in A Coruña on his arrival in Spain in the aftermath of…
We need to make the Church more welcoming to those who acknowledge the beauty of her teachings as well as those who struggle with it, writes Karl Miller At 15, I was active in high school ministry and discerning a place in the priesthood. At 16, I had my first sexual experience with another…
A new Remembrance Garden has been opened in a Limerick school and was blessed by Bishop Brendan Leahy who attended its opening. Coinciding with Grandparents Day, Athea National School opened the Remembrance Garden last week as a place for pupils to play and relax, as well as being an area of reflection for all. A…
100 years on… This paper felt Europe’s best hope after the Great War lay with the US president, writes Gabriel Doherty For several weeks prior to the week ending Saturday December 14, 1918 the pages of The Irish Catholic had been dominated by preparations for the forthcoming general election. With the ballots for same…
The dramatic marriage between Mary and Joseph was a ground-breaking moment in history, writes Colm Fitzpatrick When we think of an image of Mary and Joseph together, the first picture that usually comes to mind is the nativity scene in the stable or perhaps the flight to Egypt from King Herod, but often forgotten…
Advent is an ideal time to remember why we have the Faith we do, writes Tony Foy Did you ever think that we would get to the stage that Ireland needs missionaries? We all celebrate Christmas but somehow, recently, we have forgotten why. I am the Director of a Catholic mission of young people…
The star that guided the Magi guides us today, writes Paula Freney In my family, the Christmas season always began with the crib being taken down from the attic, out of its cardboard box, and placed on the mantlepiece in our front room. It was bought before my parents’ first Christmas together, a small,…
Greg Daly
Chai Brady
Colm Fitzpatrick