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Keeping a check on back to school costs
Lists are absolutely essential when getting ready to send your children back to school, says Claire, a mother of two in Crumlin, Dublin, “because otherwise you go to the shop and you buy 47 copies and 20 pencils and forget you need a pencil parer”. Edel in Drogheda is similarly emphatic, stressing that she draws…
Four key themes of Synod on family
Charlie Bird reports on the Missions
Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica unveiled
Pope Francis opens the Holy Door
Eight questions about the jubilee of mercy
Always get chest discomfort checked out
One in three Irish people have a parent, brother or sister with heart disease, which remains the single biggest cause of death in the Western world. Despite this, great strides have been made in its prevention and treatment in the last two decades that has hugely improved outcomes and reduced mortality. This is in large…
Ireland’s religious culture is now in flux
There’s no doubt that the report on the Archdiocese of Dublin showing a dramatic decline in the number of priests and the number of Catholics attending Mass regularly makes for sobering reading. Over the past number of years, The Irish Catholic has published several similar statistical analyses and projections – the findings have all been…
A head bowed in reverence is a sign of humility
At the end of every Roman Catholic liturgy, there is an invitation given to the people to receive a blessing. That invitation is worded this way: “Bow your heads and pray for God’s blessing.” The idea behind that, obviously, is that a blessing can only truly be received in reverence, in humility, with head bowed,…