The issue of religious freedom will continue to be a major feature in public debate in the year ahead. Central to the discussion is the extent to which people ought to be free when there are what appear to be conflicting and competing rights. For example, where there is a legal right for a same-sex…
Westmeath: Deacon Tony Larkin, pictured with his wife Jean and Bishop Kevin Doran, was ordained to the permanent diaconate by Bishop Doran in SS Peter and Paul’s Church, Athlone. Photo: Ann Hennessy.
Molly’s Game (15) When Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) has a freak accident in the snow at an Olympic skiing event, she tries to build an alternative career as a cocktail waitress, a real estate agent and, finally, running high stakes poker games for VIPs. Aaron Sorkin trades heavily on Martin Scorsese’s scattergun style of directing Goodfellas…
With ‘decluttering’ a popular New Year activity, Pope Francis has urged Catholics to emulate Mary by leaving behind “useless baggage” and learning what truly counts. “Devotion to Mary is not spiritual etiquette; it is a requirement of the Christian life,” the Pope said in his homily in St Peter’s Basilica on the solemnity of Mary,…
Time is our most precious commodity. As we get older, the years pass by like days. Suddenly, it’s 2018 – which is strange, since just yesterday it was 2008, or 1998 or perhaps even 1968 – depending on how long you’ve been around. For us adults, time passes quickly, and we don’t change dramatically from…
Roscommon: Deacon Martin Reidy stands with his son John, wife Anne, daughter Orlaith and Bishop Kevin Doran after his ordination to the permanent diaconate by Bishop Doran in Church of the Risen Christ, Kiltoom, Co. Roscommon. Photo: Ann Hennessy.
The Notebook Fr Bernard Healy The release of an animated movie called The Star caught my attention. The premise of the film – an imaginative telling of the Nativity focusing on the donkey and his animal companions reminded me that we have a plethora of traditions about various animals associated with the Christmas story.…
Archives | State Papers Secrets of the powers that be Early in 1987 the staff of the national Museum in Dublin became aware of an effort by a set of individuals in Ireland and the US to sell on a medieval artefact found in a lake in Roscommon. This was what is now called…
Dear Editor, Thank you for the excellent article by Fr Andrew McMahon on the Church and the media (IC 14/12/17). As Fr McMahon states, the media is generally hostile, sometimes very hostile, to the Church. In particular, the incessant pro-abortion propaganda in much of the media, most notably the Irish Times, which stands in contrast…
Personal Profile Colm Fitzpatrick talks to an Irish band that worships God through music Pope Benedict XVI once remarked that music’s origins lie in the experience of love, sadness, and the encounter with the Divine. Through music, we can, in some way, hear God speaking. One Northern-Irish band has taken on the challenge of…
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