Raymond Mulrooney writes about the longest serving manager of the Morning Star Hostel In this year of the Centenary of the Legion of Mary, it is right and proper to remember the many stalwart members who forged the way that led to the solid foundation of the future Legion of which we are proud to…
Annette Mulrooney tells the story of the famous legionary’s valiant mission to Africa The story of Edel Quinn (September 14 1907 –May 12 1944) and her apostolic work in Africa as envoy of the Legion of Mary is now well known, but what sort of person was she in herself? The impression given by Cardinal…
Staff reporter The traditional highlight of the Maynooth year will go ahead later this month with people being invited to join the carol service online from the historic college chapel. Following revised public health guidance, a much-reduced congregation will attend this year’s carol service, which will be livestreamed on Wednesday December 15 at 7.30pm on…
The story of the Legion’s extraordinary, though short-lived, success in China The story of the Legion of Mary in China is markedly different from any other of the 170 countries in which it has started in these past 100 years. It is different because of how the authorities in China reacted to its presence; it…
My first experience with the Legion was going door-to-door as a missionary, writes Bishop Fintan Monahan I often think of the comment of a religious sister who taught us at school, who claimed that the reason we were created is that God likes stories. The stories told at the Pearly Gates must indeed be interesting…
Staff reporter A senator has criticised the Chinese government’s regulations on religion which he says are leading to “churches being raided and closed”. Speaking in the Seanad, Independent Senator Victor Boyhan called on the Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney to publicly express concern regarding the “mistreatment” of Christians. His comments came after a motion…
As selected by some of our regular critics Thomas J. Morrisey In a secularised western world we are told that the existence of God has been disproved by science, religious faith is futile superstition, truth is relative, morality is the result of evolution, and there is no absolute right or wrong, that Jesus Christ did…
The wisdom of Frank Duff Can We Be saints? “In the heart of every right-thinking Catholic, God has implanted the desire to become a Saint. Yet few make a serious attempt to realise the ambition. The cause for this is to a large extent discouragement, due to the misunderstanding of what a Saint really is.…
Albert Reynolds: Risk Taker for Peace by Conor Lenihan (Merrion Press, €22.95/£19.99) Dr. Ciaran Casey With the deadline for my own book on the horizon, I was determined not to commit to any more work. But a request to review Conor Lenihan’s latest book was impossible to resist. His first biography, Haughey: Prince of Power was released…
Ruadhán Jones and Chai Brady Irish missionaries ministering with some of the world’s most vulnerable people in Africa have called on Ireland to give vaccine booster doses to developing nations “as a matter of justice”. The missionaries warn of a “greater disaster” with just 6% of adults in Africa fully vaccinated as new strains of…