Category: Editorials

What to do with a problem like Joe…

Joe Biden’s handlers can hardly have been more pleased about his ‘homecoming’ visit to Ireland. By any measure, the trip was a success and Mr Biden certainly seems to have enjoyed himself. A US-based journalist commenting on the trip pointed out that the crowds who turned out to see Mr Biden outside St Muredach’s Cathedral…

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2023 – A busy year for Catholics

Dear Friends of The Irish Catholic, The poet Patrick Kavanagh wrote in his poem Advent, “And Christ comes with a January flower”. The miracle of Christmas is extended into the New Year, where we discover the new life in Christ in the vulnerability of a tiny snowdrop that defies the dark nights and cold weather.…

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For Benedict, friendship with God was the key

You can’t please everyone as Pope. John Paul II didn’t (and he’s a saint!), Pope Francis doesn’t and Pope Benedict XVI certainly didn’t. Probably that is a very good thing, since to lead with conviction and courage always risks upsetting people – particularly what Pope Francis describes as vested interests and ecclesiastical elites. On the…

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