Crossing lines that shouldn’t be crossed has caused unnecessary conflict and division, has fractured social discourse and has damaged our trust in institutions and people. When a journalist is interviewed on a controversial topic, you expect them at least to try and be impartial, even if you know where their sympathies lie. My admiration of…
Children’s Corner Energy is constantly changing forms and transferring between objects. There are many forms of energy, a few science whizzes may have heard of what is known as the law of conservation of energy: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed – only converted from one form of energy to another.” Why don’t we…
The story is told – probably apocryphally – that in the year 1210 St Francis of Assisi had an audience with Pope Innocent III. During the course of their meeting, both men strolled through the Vatican treasury with all the wealth that this contained at the time as a sure sign of the temporal power…
The late lamented Princess Diana is once again centre stage in Spencer. Featuring Kristen Stewart in the title role, it’s set at Christmas in the 1990s. She spends a traumatic weekend with the Royal family at Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham estate. It’s a speculative piece by the great Pablo Larrain, allowing him to re-visit the terrain…
Pope Francis donates €145,000 to Catholic Church in Syria Pope Francis has donated approximately €145,000 to the Catholic Church in Syria for its charitable work with the poor. Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation of the Eastern Churches, announced that each of the country’s 17 ecclesiastical circumscriptions would receive roughly €8,500. The 77-year-old Argentine…
The Sunday Gospel The first reading and Gospel today (Mark 12:38-44) feature poor widows who gave all they had. The evangelist Mark had a habit of following the teaching of Jesus with the example of some person who embodies or exemplifies that lesson. Last Sunday we heard the answer of Jesus to the question of what was…
The State Claims Agency received reports on 94 incidents related to adverse effects of Ireland’s abortion legislation since it came into effect in 2019
To believe in Jesus means to follow him and avoid going “the opposite way”, following one’s own interests and inflating one’s own ego, Pope Francis said. Similarly, when Christians see one of their brothers or sisters has strayed, they must be humble, gentle and compassionate, the Pope said November 3 during his weekly general audience…
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