It is said, amongst teachers, that by teaching, you learn. Similarly, by writing for readers, a journalist learns much from those readers. And over the past week, I received a reader’s letter which gave me much pause for thought. It was from “Anne” in the “West of Ireland”. “I am writing to you re the…
Kenya: Bishops Fintan Monahan, William Crean, Denis Brennan and Canon Michael McLoughlin meet the Irish Ambassador to Nairobi, Mr Vincent O’Neil, and Trócaire’s Director Éamonn Meehan, the Regional Director Paul Healy and Director of the International Division Seán Farrell during the bishops’ annual Trócaire trip.
The View Martin Mansergh November is the month of remembrance, with All Saints’ Day on the 1st, followed by All Souls’ Day on the 2nd, in the Christian calendar. It is also the month when on 11 November 1918 an Armistice was called which brought the main fighting in the First World War to…
The WMOF18 is calling on artists and designers to put on their creative thinking caps to come up with a “unique and inspirational” design for the vestments to be worn by priests, bishops and the Pope himself at the masses of the World Meeting of Families in August 2018. The design “should lend itself to…
A great crafter of the spoken and written word has gone to God, writes Fr Michael Mullaney Ronan Drury came to Maynooth as a young man in 1942 to prepare for the priesthood and, apart from three years, he lived his priesthood in this college. He had a great devotion to this place and…
It’s important to reach out to old people living alone this Christmas, writes Colm Fitzpatrick Christmas is often associated with joy, thanksgiving and family. However, for over a third of older people in Ireland, this festive holiday will only elicit fear, sadness and isolation. Loneliness, an often ignored epidemic, is plaguing the cities, towns…
Cork: Aoife Horgan, Aoibhinn Barry, Conor Dineen and Laura O’Donovan who travelled to Kolkata, India to work with the Hope Foundation, received Endeavour Awards from Anthony Forde, Blarney Credit Union, at the Scoil Mhuire gan Smal, Awards Night. Picture: Mike English
Tributes have been paid to Maynooth professor Fr Ronan Drury who has died aged 93. A stalwart of the national seminary, Fr Drury taught countless generations of Irish priests the art of preaching homilies. He died on Thursday, November 16, in Dublin. A priest of the Meath Diocese, he was ordained in 1949 having begun…
Mayo: Children enjoy the Diocese of Achonry’s preparation launch for the World Meeting of Families.
Susan Gately writes on the Capuchin doorkeeper who teaches us ‘I can’t do everything but I will do what I can’. The Irish heritage of a Capuchin priest beatified last weekend in Detroit made him who he was, according to Fr Tom Betz OFM Cap., St Augustine, Pittsburg’s Capuchin Provincial Minister. Fr Betz was speaking…
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