Last month 400 pilgrims set out from the Diocese of Killaloe on the summer pilgrimage to Lourdes. The group included Bishop Fintan Monahan, eight priests, 52 assisted pilgrims, nursing and hospitality staff, 48 youth helpers, 10 youth leaders, the choir from the parish of Ogonnelloe and one Rose. The Clare Rose of Tralee contestant, Aoife…
Walkers from Belfast, Derry and Dublin arrive at Knock Shrine for the annual Cursillo Peace Pilgrimage, which has taken place for over 30 years. This year 260 pilgrims walked to the shrine as a pilgrimage for ‘Peace in Our Hearts, in our Homes and in Our Country and the World’. Photo: Sinéad Mallee
Several years ago Hollywood made a movie, City of Angels, about an angel named Seth whose job it was to accompany the spirits of the recently deceased to the afterlife. On one such mission, waiting in a hospital, he fell in love with a brilliant young woman surgeon. As an angel, Seth has never experienced…
Science fiction has become science fact. In the clock of history, man has gone from relative ignorance of the movements of the planets (viz. Ptolemy) to Galilean/Einsteinian enlightenment. Many people think the acme of this psychic evolution occurred in July 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon but a more fascinating – if less…
One of the (many!) things that irritates me about mainstream media is the level of religious illiteracy among commentators. A glaring example turned up in last Saturday’s Countrywide (RTÉ Radio 1), when Damien O’Reilly interviewed Evelyn Cusack of Met Éireann. Weather superstitions and the alleged influence of saints were discussed but then O’Reilly dropped this…
Capuchin students from New Zealand, Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia visiting the Irish Capuchin Province as part of a collaborative formation programme. From left: Bro. Peter, Bro. Jacek (Formator), Bro. Roman, Bro. Nick, Bro. Paul, Bro. Michael and Bro. Kieran Shorten (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, Co Donegal)
Nick Page is the author of some 70 popular books in the area of religion, written from a quirky Protestant point of view. This is suggested by his subtitle: “Commemorating 500 years of Popes, Protestants, reformers, radicals and other assorted irritants”. He begins by pointing out that the first historian of the Reformation, a servant…
Máire Ní Aogáin According to a saying attributed to Jim Larkin, “Christ is crucified every day on the streets of Dublin”. This little book transfers this metaphor to the DART stations, linking these to the Stations of the Cross. The bilingual text draws on literature from each language to provide contemporary context for the Stations…
A girl receives Communion during Mass at the Steubenville NYC youth conference at St John’s University in Jamaica, New York. More than 1,700 teenagers and youth ministers from 11 states and Canada participated in the event. Photo: CNS
Joe Carroll Irish troops have been involved in United Nations peacekeeping missions for 60 years at a cost of 86 lives. It is an honourable record and the author, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Defence Forces, has played his part. In his new book he writes about the Irish role in these missions and …
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