Staff Reporter Ireland’s newest bishop has welcomed immigrants into Ireland in his first Christmas address. Linking how many Irish are immigrants in other countries with recent immigration to Ireland, Killaloe’s Bishop Fintan Monahan noted that at Christmas “our emigrants are very much on our minds”. Dr Monahan welcomed those who have returned to Ireland for…
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RDS Christmas dinner sees record attendance
The Christmas Day Dinner hosted by the Knights of St Columbanus served a record 3,500 meals this year to those in need. The figure is 500 more than for 2015 and represents a continued year-on-year growth for the charitable event. “On Christmas Day, people like Brother Kevin of the Capuchin Day centre take the day…
‘We had a guardian angel that looked after us…’
The voices of those who spent the last hours with 9/11 chaplain Fr Mychal Judge have been gathered in a new book
Coming out of the crossfire
Casey Schmauder learns how Troubles survivor Richard Moore has coped with blindness and started a charity to help impoverished children
Another 10 commandments that can change your life in…
Daniel Berrigan, the American priest and poet who died in April this year, once wrote a wonderful little book entitled Ten Commandments for the Long Haul. It was intended as spiritual sustenance, sustaining food, for those who walk the lonely, long road of faith and often find themselves discouraged and running out of gas. Berrigan…
Don’t lose hope in God’s goodness
Fr Martin Henry The opening chapter of St Luke’s Gospel mentions the Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elisabeth, and the birth of Jesus is recorded in the following chapter. Both events are commemorated in the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. Why, one may wonder, are they referred to as ‘mysteries’ rather than, say, facts…
Plea to remember migrant suffering this Christmas
‘Their plight gives us cause for thought’ – Archbishop Martin
The strain of it all…
Being a dad is tiring work, pupils in Senior Infants, Guardian Angels’ NS, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, discover when performing the Christmas story in their annual Nativity play. Photo: Anne Collins
Miss Universe pledges faith and charity this Christmas
In one of her final acts as Miss Universe 2015, devoted Catholic Pia Wurtzbach has made a public donation of personal items to Caritas Manila towards helping the Church’s efforts for the poor in her native Philippines this Christmas. During a meeting with Cardinal Luis Tagle on December 12, just ahead of the competition to…
Ashers Bakery prepares UK Supreme Court action
The owners of Ashers Bakery, the Northern Ireland business sanctioned in the so-called ‘gay cake’ row, is to pursue an appeal against the discrimination finding against it in Britain’s Supreme Court. According to a spokesperson for The Christian Institute, which has backed the McArthur family throughout the case: “Ashers Baking Company will take the necessary…