A Dominican priest who taught Sinéad O’Connor at the Milltown Institute has remembered her as a “deeply spiritual person” who remained a believer in God despite the problems she may have had with the Catholic Church. The death of the famous singer, July 26, at the age of 56 has seen tributes pour in from…
A guide map offering insight into 101 archaeological sites around north and east Cork has been launched by County Mayor, Cllr Frank O’Flynn. The map promotes significant rural monuments and sights, including many from the early Christian period of Ireland. Mayor O’Flynn welcomed Cork County Council’s latest heritage publication and said he was delighted to…
The dangers of evil are “prowling” Ireland making it more important than ever to know good from evil, according to the Primate of All Ireland. In his homily for Mass on the summit of Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo, on Reek Sunday, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh warned that “we are surrounded by the dangers of…
A tennis child-prodigy who starred in two Wimbledon finals in the 1980s has gone viral on social media after speaking out about her change in direction in favour of religious life. American teenager Andrea Jaeger reached two Grand Slam finals before retiring from tennis aged just 19 in 1985. She reached number 2 in the…
Priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have called for breaking ties with the Russian Orthodox Church, following a Russian attack on Odesa that destroyed a historic cathedral while killing two and injuring at least 22, including four children (See In Brief). The Odesa diocese of the UOC condemned Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, saying “this act…
A Nigerian civil rights group has called on the Vatican to make an Irish priest a saint for his work helping children during Nigeria’s 1967-1970 civil war. The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) last week called on the Vatican to make Fr Dermot Doran CSSp a saint for his work in Igbo Land,…
Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ In the 1970s, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I came to know and appreciate the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. He was born in Moravia, like I was, and with a similar Jewish background. Through Husserl, I encountered Edith Stein (1891-1942). As his student, she wrote her thesis…
Everywhere I went last weekend I heard the late Sinéad O’Connor spoken about with admiration, and sympathy for the mental health turmoil she had been through during her lifetime. The praise we saw and heard over the media genuinely reflected, it seems to me, the widespread feelings for the troubled star, who was such a…
A Christian charity in the North has lambasted the PSNI claiming it is not making use of laws criminalising ‘sex-buyers’ that would see men “named and shamed”. Last week the PSNI said they had identified six women “forced into prostitution and exploited”. The women, who are in their 20s, had been lured into travelling through…
In a new attack against the Church in Nicaragua, the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has frozen the Church’s retirement fund for priests, according to lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina. The lawyer is the author of the report Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?, which catalogues the more than…
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