How to Defend the Faith Without Raising Your Voice
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How love connects siblings’ souls on Earth and in Heaven I’m not even sure if I saw her and yet her spirit is so alive and present with me today, writes Fr Joe Jones November 22, 2024, it’s mam’s birthday and if she were alive, she would be 95 today. I made the usual visit…
In a devastated country, I am sure that this earthquake will open the way for peace Cardinal Charles Maung Bo tells Paolo Affatato Our people have a strong faith. They have suffered a lot. They are the people of Good Friday. But they also know that the silence of Holy Saturday will end in the…
I experience a Church full of hope and willing to learn, engaged at all levels. From the bishops to the lay movements, there is a real commitment to walk together, writes Janet Forbes The Irish Catholic Church is at a crucial juncture in its synodical journey. With Cardinal Mario Grech’s recent letter to bishops around…
The role of the faithful in maintaining the balance For Christians, the challenge is to be careful of patterns of thought or habits of communication that too readily divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’, writes Fr Chris Hayden We live in a time of name-calling, pigeon-holing, and labelling. Perhaps, given our flawed human…
The sacred power of the religious habit In a world where everyone’s obsessed with being unique, the habit makes the most countercultural statement of all, ‘My truest self (Identity) is found only in Christ,’ writes Bro. Oman Ashraf OSA The religious habit is like a flame in the fog of modern life, where so…
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J. Anthony Gaughan Beidh Tú Alright: An Irish Language Journey, by Joe McHugh (Red Stripe Press / Orpen Press, €19.99 / £17.99) This book is an illuminating and eventful account of a Donegal man’s journey through often conflicting aspects of Irish life, culture and language. Everyone , but especially those who are doubtful on the…
If a person swears to God when he or she does not believe the Oath is devalued, for how can someone swear to God if they do not believe that God exists? Writes Barry Ward. Senator Barry Ward Article 34.6.1° Bunreacht na hÉireann sets out the Oath that every judge, appointed under the Constitution, must…
David O’Hare “According to the World Bank, climate change could push as many as 130 million people into extreme poverty by the year 2030, wiping out many of the development gains lower-income countries have made,” said Caoimhe de Barra, Trócaire’s CEO. Ms De Barra says the effects of climate change are having a particularly negative…
Fine Gael TD for Dún Laoghaire, Barry Ward, recently made headlines by introducing a bill to remove references to ‘God’ from the Judicial Oath of Office. In an editorial for The Irish Catholic, Senator Ward defended his bill, stating, “My attempt to amend this Oath is not one to secularise Ireland but to establish the…