U2 front man Bono has opened up about how, kneeling in prayer, he sought his father’s forgiveness for the way he treated him after Bono’s mother’s death. The Irish singer said in an interview with Desert Island discs that his prayer allowed him to dispel the guilt that had plagued him for years. “I apologised…
First married couple beatified together feature at World Meeting of Families Relics of the first married couple to be beatified together by the Catholic Church were venerated inside St Peter’s Basilica during the World Meeting of Families in Rome. Blessed Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi were the official patrons of the 10th World Meeting of…
Responding to Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien’s comments about “underutilised” Church-owned land when it comes to housing, housing campaigner Fr Peter McVerry said that the State has more than enough land to build a lot of houses and “it seems to me there’s no urgency about doing that”. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Fr…
On the eve of the World Meeting of Families and with a view toward the beatification September 4 of Pope John Paul I, attention turned to his initial openness to softening Catholic teaching on contraception and his later support for the teaching of St Paul VI. The editorial director of Vatican News, Andrea Tornielli, and the…
The synod process currently underway in Ireland is being replicated all across the Catholic world. To be sure, it is being met with varying degrees of enthusiasm – but it is a testament to the unity of Catholicism that the Pope is able to announce such an ambitious programme of consultation and within months parishes…
There are two kinds of analytic philosophers: the ones who like formal logic, and the imposters. I, alas, am one of the latter. Something about seeing arguments represented by symbols instead of words puts my brain completely on the fritz. In university I used to spend ages slaving through the formalisations of arguments in papers…
Despite the wretched Covid-19 causing the cancellation of a number of events at the National Concert Hall and other venues across the country, I am hoping the upcoming collaboration between Irish National Opera (INO) and Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre (BGET) will proceed with its scheduled performances of Puccini’s Tosca at the BGET on July…
The Papal Nuncio to Ireland visited Co. Down to participate in a new initiative for the renewal of faith through an all-island novena, following in the steps of St Patrick. Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo visited St Patrick’s Church in Saul on the feast of Candlemas as part of the novena and was welcomed by Fr…
Two Jesuit priests were murdered in a rugged region of Mexico rife with violence as they provided refuge to a person being pursued by a gunman, according to the Society of Jesus and state officials. Jesuit Frs Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar died defending their parish in the community of Cerocahui in…
The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies by Irving Finkel (Hodder & Stoughton, £25.00/€29.99) This is a fascinating yet grim book which describes in detail the beliefs of the cultures of Mesopotamia concerning the departed dead. The author, who is the senior assistant keeper at the British Museum, is in charge of the written relics…
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