I was staying with a friend in London last weekend – and so, on Sunday morning, I attended Mass at a parish church which wasn’t much known to me. It’s nearly always interesting to visit a church where one is a stranger, and I found the experience rewarding and even congenial. I wouldn’t want to…
The liturgies of Holy Week invite us to engage with the words, actions and experiences that constituted Jesus’s way to the Father writes Fr Tony Nye SJ We are people of the Way, an ancient term for the first Christians which is found in the Acts of the Apostles. Jesus showed us that way throughout…
A charity that combats sexual exploitation has praised the conviction of a man in Kerry who assaulted two Brazilian women involved in prostitution. Following the sentencing of a man for two sexual assaults in Tralee and Killarney, Policy and Communications Officer Danielle McLaughlin of Ruhama described the conviction as “important”. Ms McLaughlin said it provided…
The View Thousands of families across the country are frantic with worry as the end of March approaches and the eviction ban is lifted. Losing your home, or knowing that you may have to leave rental accommodation despite having nowhere to go must be a genuinely terrifying feeling. In this climate, with acute rental shortages and…
Pope Francis has updated the procedures for investigating allegations of sexual abuse or the cover up of abuse, specifying that the leaders of Vatican-recognised international Catholic lay associations and movements have the same responsibilities over their members that a bishop has over the priests of his diocese. The updated version of Vos Estis Lux Mundi…
The profound call of Vatican II not only still rings true, but is even more needed today says Archbishop Dermot Farrell The human path that we walk with its difficulties is the way to God. Our pilgrimage through time is God’s way of shaping us from within and without, by the events of history —…
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A personal journey into the magic of rewilding, by Eoghan Daltun (Hachette Books, €19.99/£16.99) Christopher Moriarty ainforest is a word all too familiar to conservationists. The context is usually the forlorn one of the replacement of tropical rainforest by intensive cattle grazing for the ultimate production of beefburgers. With this background, the…
Faith in art One of the starkest images around the funeral rites for Pope Benedict XVI was the moment when his mortal remains were transferred from his residence at the Mater Ecclesia Monastery within the grounds of Vatican City State to the majestic St Peter’s Basilica. His cortege entered the basilica through a door that…
It seems to be a big stretch to claim that the treatment of Joanne Hayes was the result of the social power of the Church writes David Quinn The so-called ‘Kerry babies’ case has been very much back in the news again thanks of the arrest and subsequent release of two people by gardaí investigating…
Deacon Frank Browne Easter is almost in view, and it is the time of year that parishes are beginning to prepare our young people for the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation. I believe it is an opportunity for all of us who minister within our parish communities, to reflect upon how we can make…
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