Years “on dark side”
St Patrick is now one of the world’s best known Catholic figures
Ash Wednesday appearance
It’s the Mary McAleese-isation of religion.
Colm Meaney continues on the Philippines and their people
Limerick prayer group
Colm Meaney continues his series on the Philippines
“Three deaths that are better than life: The death of a salmon; the death of a fat pig; the death of a robber” – Triad no 92 Sometime in the 9th century, a list of mnemonic axioms were recorded by an unknown author which were titled ‘Trecheng Breth Féne’ (A Triad of Judgments of the […]
Many Catholics will have seen the video, recently posted to twitter, of Fr. Brendan Hoban bemoaning the growth of traditional Catholic zeal among young seminarians and those recently ordained to the priesthood. 'They are traditional, they wear black, soutanes, they want to talk about sin, they want the Latin Mass! I despair of young priests' […]
Colm Meaney continues his series of the Philippines
Galway girl won hearts of nation
The story behind the republication of this book is in some ways as interesting as its content. As explained in the prologue, in 2007 Damien Richardson found a hard back copy of Fr. Dennis Murphy’s book, which was originally published in 1896, while cleaning out a house in Dublin. Damien was almost ten years into […]