Rohith Kinattukara You are excited. Finally you are at the Apple store to get the latest MacBook, one might say, everyone’s dream computer. You get back home and unbox your brand-new machine in all its glory and start typing away, sending emails, watching Netflix and maybe even doing some creative writing. Little do you…
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, is preventing priests from entering hospitals in Nicaragua to administer the sacrament of anointing the sick to those who need it, according to lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, author of the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?” while reports emerged over last weekend that…
US bishops: Synodality requires conversion of heart more than new structuresJonathan Liedl Promoting synodality in the United States depends more on a conversion of heart than on the creation of new structures, the US bishops emphasised at their fall assembly in Baltimore. “It’s about cultural change, not necessarily structural change or not necessarily canonical…
Dear Editor, In recent years one can observe the poor maintenance of both civic and privately owned historical buildings in the centre of Irish cities and large towns. “Not enough chimney pots” a politician told me. What he was saying is that there are little or no Dáil votes to be had in city centre areas…
Bishop Michael Router The recent synod entitled For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission, which came to a conclusion on October 27, led the Church through three years of reflection and discernment. Its final document outlines a blueprint for action that will help all of us who are baptised to take responsibility for…
Gabriel Fitzmaurice Questioning Ireland: Essays and Reviews, by Thomas McCarthy (Gallery Books, €17.50 / £14.50) Thomas McCarthy’s latest book, Questioning Ireland, is, like its predecessor, Poetry, Memory and the Party, magnificent. McCarthy, poet, novelist, essayist and critic is at once a Waterford man, a Munster man, an Irishman and a man of the world. A…
The beatification process for the former Jesuit General Pedro Arrupe (1907-1991) has taken an important step. The diocesan phase of the process will be completed on November 14, the Vicariate of Rome announced recently. The beatification process was formally opened in 2019 at the request of the Jesuits. Arrupe was born in 1907 in the…
There is something brewing amongst the youth in the Church says, James Tourish There are many things associated with modern university life in today’s world, parties, drinking culture and a broad range of activities that are better left undiscussed. As a student at Queen’s University in Belfast, you soon come to find that ‘the…
Fr Adrian Crowley Eve Lavalliere was born in France in 1866. She had the worst, most tragic beginning to life which any child could have. Her father, an alcoholic, in a drunken rage shot her mother and then himself… and she saw it happen. As a teenager she ran off to Paris in pursuit…
Christine Mako Many are familiar with the story of Judith. She is one of the well-known Biblical women, renowned for her courage in helping rescue the Israelites from the Assyrians. With her virtue and trust in God, she was able to deliver the head of Holofernes, the leader of the Assyrian army, to her people,…