The View Growing up can be very hard. Young people in their early teens and even younger have always faced serious questions of identity. Who am I? What am I here for? Who do I want to be? Why am I different from my friends? Why do I not fit in the way others do? Children can feel…
Too many young men who father children do not play a proper role in raising their children, writes David Quinn Here are words uttered some years back in an address to a Church gathering by a major American politician: “We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times…
In 1935, an aspiring painter and member of a prominent Jewish family in Turin by the name of Carlo Levi was sentenced to exile in Italy’s neglected southern region of Basilicata for his anti-fascist sentiments. Basilicata, at the time, was considered more or less Italy’s equivalent of Siberia, which is to say, a prison all…
The unprecedented consultation process reveals that many self-styled liberals are intolerant of those who differ from them, writes Fr Andrew McMahon Former TV3 presenter, Ursula Halligan, returned briefly to our screens this summer, in the surprising circumstances of the national pre-synodal assembly. The past political editor, and prominent campaigner for same-sex marriage, featured in RTÉs…
by Junno Arocho Esteves The Gospel of St John tells the story of Jesus’ encounter with a man who was born blind. Upon seeing him, the disciples asked Jesus if the man’s blindness was due to his sins or that of his parents. “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works…
Recently I received a letter from a friend who shared that she was afraid to accept a certain vocation because it would leave her too much alone. She shared this fear with her spiritual director who simply said, “Charles de Foucauld died alone in the desert!” That answer was enough for her. She went ahead…
My aunt Mary Margaret will be 99 in November, please God. I visited her recently in her home in Richmond, Virginia. This has become an almost annual event as I spend some time in a parish on Long Island, New York each year. Whilst there, I do a little parish work but enjoy a fair…
‘A pilgrimage’ – that was one of the most frequent descriptions of the vast queue, miles long, formed by the public filing past Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin before her funeral. And pilgrimage has another dimension that is both practical and symbolic” Pilgrimage is primarily religious in nature and its main purpose is to achieve holiness and…
The View The diocese of Kildare and Leighlin recently announced a timeline for the introduction of lay-led liturgies and the introduction of what is called a “sustainable Mass schedule” by the first Sunday in Lent in February 2023. It is far from the first Irish diocese to announce such measures. Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare…
Parts of the world we barely think about have an importance we in Ireland don’t appreciate writes David Quinn One of the Pope’s fiercest critics is Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan, the vast landlocked central Asian country which Pope Francis visited last week. Bishop Schneider’s criticisms of the Pope are often…
Nuala O’Loan
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Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Mary Kenny
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