Irish women religious, in their Synod submission, came across as passionate, hurt, and angry at their marginalisation, not just in society, but more importantly, within the Church

In their document ‘Experience and Dreams as Religious Women in the Catholic Church in Ireland’ which was included in the submission of the Church in Ireland to the Synod in Rome, Irish women religious come across as passionate, hurt, angry at their marginalisation, but hopeful that some good will come of the Synodal Process. It…

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The beginning of our union with Christ

Fr Joshua J Whitfield Through the liturgy of the Church, we are brought into intimacy with the Lord. Catholic worship always carries us there – to the real person of Christ and to his Passion. That is, it is no mere memorial what we Catholics experience in worship. Rather, the liturgy always brings us to…

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Sing in the Quiet Places of my Heart: The Life and Works of WM Letts (1882-1972), by Bairbre  O’Hogan (South Dublin Libraries,  €20.00 /  £16.99); available  through Alan Hanna and other retailers. J. Anthony Gaughan Winifred Letts is one of those many poets of the Irish Literary Revival, once widely admired, who lead a fugitive…

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Breathing life back into the world

Scott P. Richert We… see all round us every day the living turning into the lifeless. What we never see is the lifeless turning into the living,” said Owen Barfield. When I was a child, I used to collect common fossils – trilobites, brachiopods and cephalopods, mostly. I was fascinated by their shape and symmetry,…

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