Cathal BarryAmid the imposed and often fast-paced routine of everyday life, an app is giving people a reason to quiet their minds through light meditation and prayer. PeaceQuest is an immersive 3-D app designed to take users on a spiritual journey and allow them to establish a deeper connection with God and with themselves. Fr Stephen…
Month: November 2014
Parents must tackle childhood obesity as a family
The reporting of the so-called “levelling off” in the rate of obesity in Irish children may have caused serious damage. Recent media coverage of a study revealed the alarming rate of obesity in kids here has hit a plateau, but what the press failed to sufficiently highlight was that the current plateau is at an…
Killaloe’s first youth mission hailed a success
Courtney McGrailHundreds participate in the celebration of faith
Tight-lipped, worried teen returns from sabbatical
Aubrey MaloneOut of Here (12A)
Good things for chilly Tuesday evenings
Brendan O’ReganTwo new TV dramas to recommend for the winter evenings
Medieval Dubliners brought back to life
Peter CostelloFor many people Viking Dublin and Protestant Georgian Dublin, thanks largely to the fierce controversies over the years about their preservation, are more familiar than the long intervening centuries of medieval Dublin, when the capital might be said to have been a truly Catholic though English speaking city. This book is a notable attempt to bridge…
The heirs of Martha and Mary
Whenever the question of married priests, women in the Church or even women priests comes up, I often think of the wife of a Church of Ireland bishop, who remarked to me: “I often wonder about the enthusiasm of some Catholics for women in the Church. It’s not much fun being married to a priest.”…
Dreams broken by the realities of revolution
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890-1923
Modest but wondrous beginning in Bethlehem
It’s every believer’s dream to visit the Holy Land, home to the three great monotheistic religions. It was here that Jesus was born, began his ministry, performed his miracles and ultimately suffered death on a cross. No other single person throughout history has so decisively affected the lives of so many people. Indeed, the events…
New York slashes parishes but move ‘will strengthen Church’
The Archbishop of New York has announced plans to merge 112 of its 368 parishes into 55, effectively shuttering at least 31 churches by next summer. Twenty-four of the merged parishes will continue to celebrate scheduled Masses and sacraments at two sites. Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the reorganisation is a necessary adjustment to historic parish…