Personal profile In her work with St Vincent de Paul, Mary Waide helps people facing great challenges to live a life of dignity. It was a challenge in her own life that inspired her to join and commit to the charity’s mission, Ms Waide explains. The eight weeks she spent with her daughter Máire, who…
Farewells can be hard. When we love someone who is going away, there’s always a sadness, and a particularly heart-wrenching one when that loved one is going away in death. Yet, we know from experience that at the end of the day farewells are not so much a death as a transition. One way of…
Helen Vysotska Love Notes Can’t we accept that people have different values when it comes to sex outside marriage? We need to be realistic: times have changed since the Bible was written. Modern culture tells us that if something feels good and we want it, we should have it. Go ahead, YOLO (You Only Live…
The Sunday Gospel May I begin by wishing us all a joyful birthday. It is the birthday of the Church, the day when the coming of the Holy Spirit utterly transformed the apostles from being fearful and directionless into a community empowered to carry on the mission of Jesus. Jesus promised them: “when the Advocate comes,…
Medical Matters Figures this year show that life expectancy in Ireland is now the highest in the EU at 82.6 years with the gap between females and males narrowing in the last decade. Women are now living to 84.1 and men 80.5 years which compares to a mean age of 76.6 years about two decades…
Pentagon committed to understanding UFO origins Two top US defence intelligence officials have said the Pentagon is committed to determining the origins of what the US government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena” in the first public congressional hearing in more than 50 years concerning what are commonly known as UFOs. The two officials, Ronald Moultrie and…
Personal Profile There are stereotypes that the college academic profession is a hostile one for Catholics, but law lecturer in IT Sligo Leonard Taylor has never found that to be the case. Having nurtured a love for truth and knowledge in Maynooth, he finds that Catholic teaching still has a big role to play in…
Not everything can be fixed or cured, but it should be named properly. Richard Rohr said that. James Hillman suggests something similar when he wrote that a symptom suffers most when it doesn’t know where it belongs. Some of these seemingly contradict each other, but all of them merit some thought. I leave them for…
Legacy Supplement Loss of jobs, hunger and poverty are pushing girls and women out of education and into forced marriage and prostitution due to a prolonged dry period, Chai Brady writes Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are facing a severe drought which is affecting the poorest communities most in a climate change-driven crisis they are unable…
Laudato Si’ Week 2022, held from May 22-29, marks the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on creation care. It is a global Catholic celebration which unites us to listen and respond together to the cry of creation. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the progress that has been made in bringing Laudato…
Ruadhán Jones
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Dr Kevin McCarroll
Chai Brady