Youth Space Books can open up our hearts and minds to God, writes Matthias Conroy I had never attended a book club when I heard about the opening meeting of a new reading group for the writings of C.S. Lewis which would be operating out of St Saviour’s Priory on Dominick Street, led by…
Green Fingers “It may be doubted whether there a many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organised creatures”, said Charles Darwin. Darwin wrote this in 1881, he spent over 40 years studying them. As gardeners we should think more about them, what…
Homelessness causes terrible trauma to any family but it is hurting children the most, writes Sr Stanislaus Kennedy We can all take home for granted a lot of the time. But deep down we all know what it means. Our home is the foundation stone of our personal and family life. It is where we…
Where I was born in Co. Tyrone, today is generally known as ‘Boxing Day’. It’s a pity that – at least in that part of Ireland – the influence of British television and culture has had the effect of erasing St Stephen from the calendar. Thankfully, in most of the rest of Ireland the day…
Dear Editor, David Quinn writes that it’s up to individual people and parish communities to revive the Church in Ireland (IC 19/12/19) rather than the Pope – I think he’s spot on. It’s true that Francis is probably one of the most popular Pontiffs among the secular public but this won’t put people in the…
Uplifting films of the year included Breakthrough, which dealt with the power of prayer to move mountains. Chrissie Metz is traumatised by the death of her 14 year old son and prays fervently for him to be returned to life. The Last of Us told the story of missionary Graham Staines. He died in India…
As I write this review every year the more recent programmes tend to have unfair advantage. And so The Crown (Netflix) gets first mention this year. I reviewed two particularly good episodes from Season 3 (November) in a recent column – the ones that focused on the Aberfan disaster and Sr Alice, Prince Philip’s mother…
All thoughts of Christmas might seem to have been far away from a late summer day in the warm climate of Provence, but such was not the case this year for me. We were on a trip to stay with friends and relations in Toulouse. During the days we were there we were taken to…
French nuncio steps down amid misconduct allegation Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the nuncio to France, who has been under investigation for sexual misconduct in France and in Canada. Announcing the archbishop’s retirement on December 17, the Vatican provided no reason why he stepped down. A statement released by the…
As a new party, Aontú did well in the Derry constituency of Foyle for the UK General Election: Anne McCloskey got over 2,000 votes and saw an increase in support for her party. Yet, in terms of the overall political picture, it’s surely also a welcome development that the SDLP, which had been wiped off…
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