Month: June 2018

Study Guide: Laudato Si’ Praise Be To You

With just weeks until Pope Francis is in Dublin for the World Meeting of Families, attention is focusing on his teachings and what his message will be to the Church in Ireland. Over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to publish study guides to the Pope’s landmark documents – this week Laudado Si’ by Prof.…

Inspiration for all in the lives of saints

Saints for the Family by John Murray (Messenger Publications, €9.95) Inspiration from the Saints: Stories from the Lives of Catholic Holy Men and Women by Maolsheachlann Ó Ceallaigh (Angelico Press, £12.50 / US$16.95)   Fr John Murray is the busy parish priest of Downpatrick in Ulster. His name may well be familiar to readers both from his…

The Primate of All Ireland has said he isn’t “ruling out the possibility” of Pope Francis visiting the North of Ireland at some point in the future, and that it may have to be a “specific” visit. Speaking in Maynooth University on June 11, Archbishop of Armagh Eamonn Martin said there’s disappointment at the “level…