With the Diocese of San Diego facing about 450 lawsuits over alleged sexual abuse of minors by priests, religious, and laity, Cardinal Robert McElroy has informed the clergy and faithful that today the diocese will file for bankruptcy for the second time. The announcement comes about 16 months after Cardinal McElroy said the diocese was…
Ava Westendorf and Matt Letourneau Lying right outside of Phoenix Park, Mount Sackville Nursing Home is a peaceful, animal-loving, growing community that recently, through the Congregation of Cluny’s donation, built a €1.3 million euro expansion to build a new wing. When I first walked in to Mount Sackville on the morning of June 14, I…
Copernicus and the “Galileo case” are still taught in schools today. They drove a wedge of mistrust between the Church and science. But it was also a Catholic priest who first heard the bang. “In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. But the earth was desolate and empty (…), and God’s Spirit hovered over…
Walled in by Hate: Kevin O’Higgins,His Friends and Enemies, Arthur Mathews (Merrion Press, €19.99). The tragedy of the Irish Civil War and its legacy of hatred loom large in this new biography of Kevin O’Higgins by Arthur Mathews. Data on the Civil War fatalities recently published by a team of researchers in UCC highlights the…
Tragedy is inevitable in life but how one responds is up to each individual. The response of Geraldine Mullan in Moville, Co. Donegal has inspired many across her parish but also the country. During the summer of 2020, Geraldine’s life took a turn for the worst when she and the car she was travelling home…
When an individual or secularised culture has largely abandoned Faith, the Virgin Mary often lingers in grace-filled whispers. Take the ‘Hail Mary pass’ in football, or the lovely musical renditions of the ‘Ave Maria’, both of which remain popular in secular society today. As the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris burned in 2019, strains…
Q: John 6:54 states the following: “Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.’” I just met a sister in Christ who has a problem. She has a common law spouse and…
The Hell Fire Club, Dublin’s Dance with the Devil, by Maurice Curtis (The Old Dublin Press, €20.00 hb) Sléithe Séadchomartha Bhaile Átha Cliath, Sharon Greene & Noel Jackman, designed by Sara Nyland, An Siopa Leabah, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 VH98; free of charge (but packing and postage extra) When I was a…
June Chapman, a business professional in the greater Washington, D.C., area, has recently published her first book, Peace in the Waiting: When You Love People Who Don’t Love God. In it, Ms Chapman recognises the heartache believers feel over friends and family who don’t share their faith.“I felt that this book topic was important since…
Jb 38:1, 8-11 Ps 107:23-24, 25-26, 28-29, 30-31 2 Cor 5:14-17 Mk 4:35-41 Rembrandt got it. Centuries ago, the artist captured the scene in this Sunday’s Gospel – a scene full of raging waves and gathering clouds and sheer, unabashed terror. The apostles are screaming in fear. One of them is leaning over the side…
Peter Costello