Members of the Irish community in London will soon be able to access a fully stocked library of books of Irish interest thanks to a major donation of some 6,000 books to the London Irish Centre through an initiative supported by Irish readers and publishers. Responding to a call by the Joint Committee on Environment,…
Month: March 2014
Check list for marriage
Dear Editor, Mags Gargan ( IC 27/2/14) is to be congratulated upon her timely and useful guide for couples getting married; it contains much which will aid, I feel, to the importance of the occasion. One of those useful guides was the month, weekly and finally daily, check list of what to do; however, with one…
Defending Mother Teresa
Dear Editor, Fr Rolheiser’s article on Mother Teresa, God’s purity arrives in the darkest of nights (IC 20/3/14) was hard to take. In my life I have struggled with my own weaknesses to try to follow the way of Jesus Christ. I have found him to be my companion and guide but I also recognise…
Praying for life this Lent
Dear Editor, I am writing to you about the 40 days for life prayer and fasting campaign continuing to Easter Sunday outside the Marie Stopes abortion referral centre on Berkeley Street Dublin 7. This is the fourth year that we have held this event and it has proved to be a very successful spiritual occasion.…
Vatican backs efforts to restore Holy Stairs Shrine
A major refurbishment of the Santa Scala is underway
Nun woos Italian TV audiences
A young singing sister is taking Italy by storm
A decade of division
The Scottish Church is fighting radical secular interests
EU bishops call for voters to engage
COMECE issues statement ahead of EU elections
Sacre-Coeur Basilica targeted in paint attack
Anarchists blamed for daubed slogans
Nazareth mayor declares support for Annunciation day
Muslims mayor declares backing for public holiday