Trócaire URGENT APPEAL 23.07.2017

A national Church collection will be held this weekend of 22/23 July to fund life-saving aid for people currently affected by the devastating hunger crisis in East Africa.  The money raised will go directly to Trócaire’s emergency response, which is helping to deliver food, water, healthcare and other life-saving aid to people Read more…

IS IT OK TO BE A CATHOLIC? 09.07.2017

Happy Holiday!! Believe it or not this phrase is causing considerable annoyance amongst some Americans and indeed some Irish people. In itself it is of course harmless. The trouble comes when it is promoted as a politically correct way of wishing someone Happy Christmas, or Happy Thanksgiving. It is designed to ensure no Read more…

TIME TO BIN THE CHURCH 18.06.2017

Yes apparently it’s time to bin the Church. This sentiment was expressed just the other day. What surprised a lot of people was that this idea was expressed in the National Parliament, Dáil Éireann, by not only one of our publicly elected representatives, but one of our very own local representatives here in Read more…

What’s the Story 28.05.2017

They say everybody loves a story. I think this is true. From when we were small children the idea of being told a story was very attractive to us. The bedtime story that soothed us to sleep, or the first stories that we read for ourselves, are logged somewhere in our memory. Read more…

HOLY BREAD OR JESUS 21.05.2017

Recently I was a little alarmed to hear someone, whom I thought would know better, display a huge ignorance with what happens at Mass. Of course there are many things that happen at this beautiful and most extraordinary of experiences that we call The Mass or The Eucharist, including sorrow for sin, the Read more…