Courtney McGrailStaff reporter A Vatican-based drama due to air on Irish screens today, October 27, has drawn record numbers in Italy where it debuted last week. According to Sky, the first two episodes of The Young Pope, starring Jude Law, drew some 935,000 viewers, a record for the channel in Italy. Putting the numbers in context, they…
Month: October 2016
A Rosary from Rome
Ruth McGee with Fr Gabriel Harty OP and Brid Galligan, Principal of St Malachy's Girls' National School. Sixth-class student Ruth wrote to Pope Francis to praise the 95-year-old school chaplain Fr Harty, and was amazed last week to receive a letter from the Vatican, saying the Pope wanted to thank her, and that he appreciated…
Fostering keen intellects and prolific pens
Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin argued that a pluralist society needs faith schools
Church bells signal liberation for people in Northern Iraq
The bells of Christian churches in Northern Iraq have begun to ring out for the first time in over two years as government forces liberate villages and towns around besieged Mosul. As a means of simultaneously signalling freedom regained and of the endurance of Christian communities, bells began to ring out last weekend as militants…
The first trimester
Wendy GraceWendy Grace describes the early months of pregnancy
A call to community
Sophie Overall meets Augustinian vocations director Fr Colm O’Mahony
Boredom… a fault within ourselves
Fr Ronald RolheiserIn 2011, a book by a young writer, Bieke Vandekerckhove, won the award as The Spiritual Book of the Year in her native Belgium. Entitled The Taste of Silence, the book chronicles her own struggles after being diagnosed at age 19 with ALS, commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease, a degenerative neurological condition that always results…
A Tom Cruise missile is very late to detonate
Aubrey MaloneJack Reacher: Never Go Back (PG)
Dark moments and shots at redemption
Brendan O’Regan‘Challenging’ was the description that most came to mind as I watched Beyond Redemption? A Would You Believe? Special, last Thursday night on RTÉ 1. After years of concentration on the victims of sexual abuse this programme focused on the perpetrators and what could be done to support them in such a way that they…
The extraordinary spirit and soul of Jean Vanier
The Gospel of John, The Gospel of Relationship Jean Vanier (Darton, Longman & Todd, £9.99 pb)