Fr Ronald RolheiserWords give us meaning. We can’t make or remake reality, but the words we choose to name our reality can lift us out of the humdrum of everyday experience.
The power of words
Month: November 2023
Healthcare chaplain wins prestigious award
Ruadhán Jones
Elphin diocese priest Fr Brian Conlon has been honoured with the prestigious West North-West Regional Award, which celebrates outstanding contributions to the counselling and psychotherapy profession.
Argentina will get first home-grown saint when ‘Mama Antula’ is canonised
Argentina will get its first home-grown female saint in early 2024 with the canonisation of Blessed María Antonia de San José.
Sacred architecture and witness: A tale of two temples
“Beauty will save the world,” Dostoyevsky famously wrote in his novel, The Idiot.
Pope calls on doctrinal dicastery to formally investigate Marko Rupnik
Pope Francis has lifted the statute of limitations on abuse accusations against Fr Marko Rupnik to allow for a formal investigation of the case by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Reaping the rewards of stiff competition
The Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year competition took place last month at the Society’s head quarters in Dublin’s Molesworth Street, but the competition actually began life in RTÉ’s Music Department where it had been the brainchild of the late Jane Carty and was known as Musician of the Future.
Book for children warmly reviewed in our pages wins top award
Peter Costello
This title was pointed out before Christmas last year, as I recall, as a delightfully entertaining introduction to some of the great heroes and ordinary characters of the Bible, told in a story telling style with a particular appeal to modern young readers.
A feast for lovers of religious-themed programmes
Brendan O’Regan
You know the old story of waiting ages for a bus and then a few come along together. I felt like that last week, with three new religious programmes on RTÉ.
A ‘formula for life’: St John Paul II’s extraordinary devotion to the Eucharist
Pope St John Paul II passed on to his eternal reward on Divine Mercy Sunday in 2005. Many of us have memories of keeping vigil, praying for the pope in his final hours
Stubborn inability to deal with abuse is stomach-churning
Michael Kelly
“We had hoped, but…” is what Cleopas told the hidden Lord on the road to Emmaus about the experience of desolation in the early Church following the Crucifixion.