Death comes to us all, and in recent years there’s been an ongoing debate about how we can die with dignity. For the Irish Hospice Foundation, a key part of the answer is bringing hospice-style care to wider society. “In 1986 we were formed by an inspirational lady, Dr Mary Redmond, the late Dr Mary…
If liberalism is in trouble nowadays, it’s not because it’s failed but because it’s succeeded. That, at any rate is the theory of US academic Patrick Deneen, whose latest book, Why Liberalism Failed, has been making ripples since it was published early this year and who spoke last week in Dublin’s Notre Dame-Newman Centre for…
Born in west Clare, one of eight children, Spiritan priest Fr Martin Kelly CSSp has been national director of World Missions Ireland since January, and seems well qualified for it with over two dozen years on the missions in Ethiopia under his belt. “Over 40 years I was there for 28 years, one batch of…
About 70,000 pilgrims from around the world swarmed down Via della Conciliazione towards Vatican city, filling St Peter’s Square in a flurry of colour, waving caps and flags associated mainly with one of the seven people about to be recognised as saints. Safe to say, with a huge turn-out from El Salvador, St Oscar Romero…
To see somebody give their life out of love for their people is inspiring not just for Christians, but for people of all Faiths, one Dubliner who attended the canonisations on Sunday said of St Oscar Romero. An eclectic mix of energised people streamed out of St Peter’s Square after the canonisations of seven new…
100 Years On… The First World War induced a kind of intellectual schizophrenia in Irish Catholic thinking, writes Gabriel Doherty The pages of The Irish Catholic for the week ended Saturday, October 19 1918, continued to make reference to, indeed were dominated by, the sinking nine days earlier of the MV Leinster by a German…
Francesco Spinelli St Francesco Spinelli was born in Milan on April 14, 1853. After completing his priestly formation, he was ordained a priest in 1875. He started a community of young women in Rome who consecrated their lives to Eucharistic adoration. After meeting St Catherine Comensoli, he founded the Institute of the Adorers of the…
Fr Patrick Flynn may not have known what a Capuchin even was when, aged 12, he and his classmates were asked in 1955 if they’d like to sing in the choir at St Mary of the Angels Church on Dublin’s Church Street, but nowadays his knowledge of the order and of the Irish province’s missionary…
If the success or otherwise of missionary activity can be judged by whether missionaries are able to raise up people to take their place, Ireland’s Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, generally known as the OLA Sisters, can be very proud of what they have done. Sr Janet Nutakor OLA, currently working with the…
Michael Bublé has said in an interview ahead of the release of his new album next month that he made it to thank fans globally for praying for his family when his son Noah, who is now in remission, was battling liver cancer. “…I felt a debt of gratitude, deeper than I can explain, to…
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