Vatican: The Irish delegation pose for a photo during the Rethinking Europe – A Christian contribution to the future of the European project conference, organised by the Holy See and COMECE (The Catholic Church in the European Union).
Out & About
Month: November 2017
Dad’s Diary
Rory Fitzgerald
One eccentric feature of parenthood is that your holiday dates are chosen for you by the Department of Education. Left to their own devices, few parents would spontaneously elect upon the dreary weeks of late October as the ideal season for a family holiday. Yet we must make the most of what we are given,…
Out & About
Kerry: Pictured after the blessing and unveiling ceremony of the Window of Reconciliation at St John the Baptist Church Tralee, back John Griffin Eng, Micheal Ó Suilleabháin, Tom Denny Artist, Fr David Monteeith, Dean of Leicester (Homilist). Cllr Norma Foley, Mayor of Tralee. CoI Bishop Kenneth Kearon. Bishop Ray Browne, Fr Tadhg Fitzgerald, Bill Looney…
Around the world
US: A bicyclist passes a memorial on West Street last week, two days after a man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City.
Fake news and getting the right proportions
Dear Editor, At a time when other news outlets – including, sadly, other Catholic ones – fill their online and paper pages with ‘fake news’ about the Vatican, it’s reassuring to see The Irish Catholic holding the line for responsible journalism. Only this week the Vatican had to quash rumours irresponsibly reported across certain elements…
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Mayo: Priests of the Archdiocese of Tuam gathered to celebrate Mass with Archbishop Michael Neary to mark the Silver Jubilee of his episcopal ordination
Around the world
Italy: Pope Francis greets the crowd outside the Ardeatine Caves Memorial in Rome November 2, the Feast of All Souls. The site honours 335 Italian citizens who were killed there by the Nazis in 1944.
TV3 show a real example of an Irish welcome
Brendan O’Regan
A few Sundays ago one of the readings at Mass was about welcoming the stranger. The exhortation came back to me when I was watching Ireland’s Refugee Hotel, a TV3/BBC co-production shown last Thursday on TV3 and last Tuesday on BBC 1. The focus was on the small town of Ballaghaderreen in Co. Roscommon, where Muslim…
The Great Hunger in the Kerry hills
The Great Famine in Tralee and North Kerry by Bryan MacMahon (Mercier Press , €35) The Great Famine, or ‘Black ‘45’ as it is known in the oral tradition, was a seminal event in the modern history of Ireland. It initiated the great emigration to the ‘New World’. Regrettably it also grafted on to the folk…
Around the world
Uganda: Refugees from South Sudan are seen in the Palabek Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. Salesian missionaries have opened five chapels in the camp and minister to the refugees who have fled violence in their homeland.