David Mills Some years ago, a priest sent me occasional criticism of something I’d written. He tended to pick at small points. We’d had dinner a couple of times and were friendly, and I eventually responded that I’d find it easier to hear his criticism if he’d ever offered any comment but criticism. I…
The Department of Foreign Affairs proudly tweeted recently how Ireland was celebrating fifty years of having lifted the “marriage bar” for women working in the public service – with the support of the EU and its march towards equality. Yes, I remember that situation well: women, on marriage, had been required to step down from…
French football star and devout Christian Olivier Giroud had warm words for those attending the recent World Youth Day festival in Lisbon, Portugal, saying that they are a “sign of hope”. Sharing a video message August 1 addressed to the 40,000 young French people who travelled to the festivities in Lisbon, Portugal, the 36-year-old said, “You…
Before 200,000 pilgrims at Fátima, many of them with tears in their eyes, Pope Francis called for a new Marian devotional title – ‘Our Lady in a Hurry’ – to describe how Mary hastens to care for all her children. “There are many Marian invocations,” he told the crowd at the Shrine of Our Lady…
After many of the 1.5 million young people gathered in Lisbon’s Tejo Park waited for hours in near 40-degree weather to participate in the World Youth Day vigil with Pope Francis on Saturday, the Pope asked them, “Have you ever been tired?” Even when tempted to “throw in the towel” or stop along the journey…
Nobody should be forced to pay for a service they do not want. People should certainly not be required to fund obscene salaries and political activism under threat of imprisonment. There is no longer any need to force everyone with a television to pay for RTÉ. Instead, only those who wish to actually watch RTÉ…
Elizabeth Scalia In Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a point where Atticus Finch, seeking to teach his son about making reparation for damaging another’s property (and about something else, too) orders his young son Jem to visit the bedside of sickly old Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose and read aloud to…
Following the car crash that killed two young women Kiea McCann and Dlava Mohamed last week, a priest has said “our hearts are broken”. Fr John Chester PP of Roslea said at the funeral of Ms McCann that “God is in Clones and God was at the Mount of Olives the night before the death…
At the end of the 2007 movie Charley Wilson’s War, about how covert American support for the mujahadeen in Afghanistan helped bring down the Soviet empire, a quote appears from the real Texas congressman played in the film by Tom Hanks: “All these things happened, and they were glorious and they changed the world.” “Then,…
Iconic car brand Porsche is taking fire after releasing an advertisement celebrating 60 years of the Porsche 911 that apparently edited out Lisbon’s famous ‘Cristo Rei’ – a statue of Jesus Christ that overlooks the Portuguese capital. In the video, a Porsche drives across the screen before a backdrop of a bridge and a river,…
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