The Sunday Gospel Our Sunday Gospels this year are taken from Luke, but today’s story of the woman accused of adultery is found in John’s Gospel 8:1-11. But it is very likely that it was originally a portion of Luke that somehow found its way into the manuscripts of John. Its present location breaks the continuity of…
Personal Profile Dr Dermot Kearney, past president of the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) UK, believes that we must always be prepared to invite people to talk about faith and spirituality. His Catholic faith has helped him deal with the challenges being a doctor presents and he wants to share that gift. Irish born but based…
Forty years ago, Philip Rieff wrote a book entitled The Triumph of the Therapeutic. In essence, he argued that today in the Western world so many people need psychological therapy mainly because our family structure has grown weak and many community structures have broken down. He contends that in societies where there are still strong…
Marta Osborne Love Notes My wife and I sometimes have trouble managing our divergent personalities – she’s very quiet and reserved while I’m extremely active and extroverted. How do we make it work? The saying goes that “opposites attract”, and this is often the case. The attraction is the easy part, however – making it…
Fasting has been a part of the religious spiritual arsenal for thousands of years and not for no reason, writes Jason Osborne Prayer, almsgiving and fasting are the three pillars upon which a successful Lenten campaign is built, but today we’re going to focus on fasting. The necessity of prayer and almsgiving/charity is evident for all…
Musk challenges Putin to ‘single combat’ for Ukraine Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted out a challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, the challenge being ‘single combat’ and the stakes being Ukraine. Writing Mr Putin’s name in Russian and Ukraine in Ukrainian, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said “I hearby challenge (Vladimir Putin) to single…
Medical Matters Vitamin D has been catapulted into a ‘hotspot’ of discussion in the field of nutritional health science over the last decade. There are now nearly 100,000 published peer reviewed studies on the topic of “vitamin D’ and over 1,000 specifically related to vitamin D and Covid. So what’s our understanding of vitamin D…
When did we lose it? When did we lose that deeply-engrained, forever-sanctioned sense that however much we might disagree with each other or even dislike each other, we still need to accord each other basic courtesy, respect, and politeness? We’ve lost that, at least for the most part. From the highest levels of government to…
Personal Profile Fr Declan Lohan, a priest of the Galway diocese, says that he didn’t appreciate Christ or the Church in the first part of his life. He developed this appreciation over time, first through the Legion of Mary and Youth 2000, and now through his work as a parish priest in Renmore, Co. Galway.…
The Sunday Gospel If all of Scripture were to be destroyed with the exception of one passage, my choice to be preserved would be today’s Gospel (Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32), the parable of the Prodigal Son. This is the essence of salvation history, the story of sin and God’s offer of forgiveness. It describes three steps…
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