Paulina Guzik In one of the most significant moments in Polish post-war history, the Ulma family was beatified in Markowa, September 10. “I think it will only get me at night, when I come back home, because now I still can’t believe it,” Jerzy Ulma, nephew of Blessed Józef Ulma, told OSV News. His uncle Józef,…
For at least the last 1,200 years the tradition of the Church has been that Saturdays are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Have you ever wondered why? What is it about Saturday that makes it so appropriate to remember Mary? The Vatican’s Directory on Popular Piety says that this tradition is a remembrance of the…
A philosophy professor at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alex Byrne, had his most recent book cancelled by the prestigious Oxford University Press.
We repeatedly hear calls for the Government to ‘do something’ to solve the housing crisis. In reality, the Government needs to do less, not more.
My wife recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I love her so much already, and I find it unbelievable
Depending on your point of view, the Irish family is either becoming more ‘diverse’, which is apparently a good thing, or instead we have more family breakdown, which is obviously a bad thing, generally speaking.
Who is Richard Lawrence? Now, that’s a question that I hadn’t imagined ever needing to ask myself! In August, I travelled to the United States on what turned out to be a holiday. For 25 years, I have had the great joy of going there every summer to spend a few weeks in a parish…
The renowned American author Henry James gave advice to anyone seeking to write a novel or a play. There are three rules, he said: “Dramatise, dramatise, dramatise!” That is, make everything in fiction more extreme than in real life. Make the baddies badder and the goodies more heroic. Exaggerate every aspect of story and action.…
There are beautiful stained-glass windows behind the altar in our Church of All Saints in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. At the centre, way high up, is a very realistic depiction of the crucified Christ – a strong and vital young man hanging helpless on the cross, but looking out with such compassion. It is very compelling.…
At the weekend the Pope surprised a gathering of journalists in the Vatican by making an appeal to them for help, “not for money” he assured them, but to fight against disinformation and the denial of facts and reality. This appeal for help came as a prominent Cardinal in America heavily criticised the proposed Synod…
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