Medical Matters Discomfort in the legs is not an uncommon complaint encountered by older adults and can significantly affect quality of life. Restless leg syndrome can occur at any age but is more common as one gets older. It’s characterised by an uncomfortable sensation that results in an uncontrollable urge to move your legs. This…
The monks of Glenstal have had to use the internet creatively to continue their age-old hospitality amid restriction, writes Jason Osborne The monastic lifestyle is a human pattern as old as time. For thousands of years, people have separated themselves from others, wrapping themselves in silence and solitude that they might better hear God’s voice.…
Life in Ireland: A Short History of a Long Time by Conor W. O’Brien (Merrion Press, €16.95/£15.99) Joe Carroll This potted history of plant and animal life in Ireland stretches over a long period – about 550 million years. So there is a lot of evolution to pack into 264 pages. The author, a lifelong enthusiast…
Dennis Sadowski After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops’ upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the reception of Communion, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president explained in a memo the procedure followed in bringing the question to…
Gunmen attacked a Catholic parish in northern Nigeria last Thursday, killing one priest and kidnapping another. Fr Alphonsus Bello was found dead May 21, the morning after his parish, St Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in the Diocese of Sokoto, was attacked by armed bandits. He was 33. Fr Bello was kidnapped along with another priest,…
A friend sent on an old picture from our village when I was a boy. When a picture from your childhood looks like something from another world, you know you’re getting older. Although my childhood took place not too long ago, in the 1980s, I do remember Ireland as being a very different country back then.…
The diocese of Simla Chandigarh sits in the north of India, bordering both Pakistan and China. It is as big as the whole of Ireland at 83,560 square kilometres, and consists of three states of India, namely, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Predesh and the union territory of Chandigarh. Over the past year, the diocese, whose…
Personal Profile Four countries and nine years of preparation later, Bro. Ryan Holovlasky CSsR made his perpetual vows to the order of Redemptorists in March 2021. “It was worth the wait,” Bro. Ryan tells The Irish Catholic, explaining that he always felt “that flame burning that God was calling me to the priesthood”. Bro. Ryan…
Vatican names new liturgy chief Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Arthur Roche last Thursday as the prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Archbishop Roche, the current secretary for the congregation, succeeds Cardinal Robert Sarah, who served as its prefect for six years until the Pope accepted his resignation…
Living Laudato Si’ In May the Church celebrated the sixth anniversary of the publication of Laudato Si’ – On Care for Our Common Home. A weeklong celebration of events took place online on topics ranging from ecological education and spirituality to musical events embracing the arts. One webinar, which the Irish Church can be most…
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