A prominent Belfast-based priest has rejected attempts to turn an open letter he signed on the issue of Brexit into a push for abortion in the North. Passionist Fr Gary Donegan was one of 200 leading figures in the broader nationalist community who signed the letter to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar expressing “frustration and growing concern…
A group of children and their families used the Christmas season to help reinforce the message that Christ is at the centre of the festival by distributing ‘baby Jesus’ figures to families to place in their homes. The project called ‘Jesus has been left out’ aims to put Jesus back to the centre of Christmas…
Medical Matters Coffee is one of the most widely drank beverages in the world and indeed in Ireland is consumed by about 75% of the population. While many of us are familiar with the caffeine boost we get from coffee, it is actually only one of up to 1000 bioactive compounds it contains that…
The Rutland Centre, Ireland’s foremost addiction treatment centre, has announced details of its Family Support Services for 2018. The Centre will operate workshops throughout the New Year to support family members of people affected by addiction. Maebh Leahy, the centre’s chief executive, said: “No matter what the addiction is, whether it’s alcohol, drugs, sex, food…
Sole providers for families in developing countries face terrifying prospects if they become blind, writes Chai Brady For a mother who does readings at Church, runs her own business and loves to see the faces of her children and grandchildren, the prospect of slowly going blind is terrifying. Hannah, who is in her 60s,…
The Christmas story is surely one of the greatest stories ever told. It chronicles a birth from which the world records time as before or after. Moreover, it is written in a way that has inflamed the romantic imagination for 2,000 years. This hasn’t always been for the good. Beyond spawning every kind of legend…
Cork’s newly regenerated Nano Nagle Place has been hailed by former President Mary McAleese as a “living showcase” of the life, work and legacy of the Presentation Sisters’ founder. Speaking at the official opening of the €10.5m heritage centre, Dr McAleese said it was “not just a place where Nano Nagle’s history is celebrated but…
Looking at our own four, who now range in age from 17 to 23, I have always felt that Faith has been a positive, strengthening influence in their lives. From the beginning we wanted to raise our children as people of Faith and have made that one of the priorities in our life as a…
Looking back on the media landscape in 2017 it’s good to report quite a few excellent programmes, including some very positive to religious faith, though there are disappointments as well. One of the programmes that stands out most for me is last June’s BBC drama series Broken, starring Sean Bean as a troubled priest in…
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist,” says Kevin Spacey’s Keyser Söze in 1996’s The Usual Suspects. It was, writes Tracy Robey at racked.com, a vision of evil – hidden in plain sight and wearing utterly forgettable clothes – “that captured pop culture’s imagination”. Trumping other 1990s takes…
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