Dear Editor, It was good to read Michael Kelly’s article [The Irish Catholic – February 17, 2022] on the Women’s Council of Ireland and his pointing out that it is a long time since the Women’s Council – which claims a fortune of taxpayer’s money to lobby on behalf of women – has even pretended…
Denial, as they say, isn’t just a river in Egypt. A comet is heading for Earth that’s due to blow us all to smithereens in six months. Two low level astronauts are aware of it. But nobody in the corridors of power wants to know. They think it’s Trumpian “fake news.” The “boy who cried…
Marta Osborne Do you have any suggestions for approaching lent with your spouse? I think we’d be more successful if we tried to go through it together. Lent is difficult at the best of times, but it can be especially so if we try to go it alone. As married couples, we’re blessed to have…
An ambitious project by Maynooth pulls together 350 years’ worth of material on Ireland’s clergy, Ruadhán Jones learns Would you like to know about the lives of Irish priests under the penal laws? Or catch a glimpse of the new vocations headed to the Irish colleges in Lisbon, Salamanca and Paris in centuries past? Perhaps…
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