D&C Congress ‘filled with faith’ Cathal Barry Over 1,700 people from the diocese of Down and Connor packed out the impressive Waterfront Hall in Belfast at the weekend for their inaugural diocesan congress. ‘Living Church’ was an appropriate title for the first congress of its kind in Down and Connor, which drew together the faithful…
Month: October 2013
Lough Derg praised for suicide event
Lough Derg’s ‘Living with Suicide Day’ attracted 120 participants
Thanks for the Francis interview
Dear Editor, Many thanks and congratulations on your visionary initiative in publishing the full interview given by our ever-surprising Pope Francis in your September 26 issue. Many regard it as a historical new-start in renewal for the Church Let’s hope you may have many copies in some convenient form for any who may have missed…
Matt Talbot Novena in Killaloe diocese
The annual novena to Matt Talbot is underway in the Diocese of Killaloe
A lesson from the road
Fr Ronald Rolheiser finds himself on the Camino de Santiago
In love and war
Aubrey Malone is pleased by ‘intelligent and cerebral film-making’
Autumn brings in changes
Brendan O’Regan considers offerings for the new season
Canon Sheehan restored to prominence
This book would be important even if it were only the collection of a parish priest’s letters – a thing never before attempted, though we have the letters of higher clergy such as Cardinal Cullen in print. But because these are the letters of an interesting literary figure whose representations of the Ireland of his…
Ireland’s continental connections
Joe Carroll It is 40 years since Ireland joined the European Economic Community (EEC) so virtually two generations have little knowledge of the prolonged campaign from 1961 to 1973 to achieve membership. When asked to vote on the various referenda on widening and deepening the now European Union, very few realise what a struggle it was…
Charting the crash
Peter Hegarty With the election triumph of Angela Merkel it is clear that German attitudes to the economic collapse and its aftermath will remain dominant. In his new book Faisal Islam explores the causes and effects of the Great Recession with the clarity and common sense we have come to expect from the highly-rated economics…