Posted on 20. Aug, 2020 in Charity, Church Teachings, Faith and Justice
For over 30 years, Columban priest Fr. Shay Cullen has worked in the Philippines on behalf of children who are being sexually exploited, many of them as young as four. He was also a Nobel Prize Nominee for his work with children worldwide. In this piece from the archive, first recorded in 2006, when he […]
Posted on 20. Aug, 2020 in Community, Faith and Justice
In this piece form the archive, first recorded in 2005, Catherine Merry shares her experiences working with chaplaincy since 1979. She describes her role in the chaplaincy office as just being there to listen to the stories of the people that come in and talks about the challenges she faces in her job. Catherine is […]
Posted on 13. Aug, 2020 in Faith and Justice, Saints, Vocation
For the month of August, Soul Waves Radio will be reliving some interviews from the past. First published in Sept 2005, this piece looks a Glenstal Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in County Limerick. Colman O Clabaigh OSB is a monk of Glenstal Abbey, where he is the monastery librarian. In this interview he talks about the […]
Posted on 06. Aug, 2020 in Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs, Uncategorized
In 1965 Sr. Consilio founded Cuan Mhuire in Athy Co. Kildare to help those struggling with addictions. She attributes the success of the centre, not to anything she did, but to the support received from Our Lady. After her presentation at a recent conference on Addiction in the Jesuit Manresa Centre in Dublin, she told […]
Posted on 30. Jul, 2020 in Death, Health, Spirituality
Many of us have pondered what lies beyond the pearly gates and what will happen when our time to die arrives. In one of the most popular piece from the archives Leila Merriman shares the extraordinary details of her near death experience while she was very ill with pneumonia. She describes a feeling of elation, […]
Posted on 25. Jun, 2020 in Church Teachings, Faith and Justice
In this piece from June 14th 2006, we look at the story of Sr Briege. When Sr Briege was a young girl working in Dublin, she was introduced to the writings of Sister (as she was then) Elizabeth of the Trinity. She still remembers vividly the effect they had on her and how her future […]
Posted on 02. Apr, 2020 in Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Health, Hospice, Relationships
With the Coronavirus sweeping across the globe, people are more aware of our fragility and loss. In this piece from the archives we look back at “Irish Stories of Loss and Hope” a book published by Hospice Foundation. They wanted to help show people … “the individual nature of grief, the difficulties that grieving brings and […]
Posted on 19. Mar, 2020 in Ecology, Economy, Environment, Faith and Justice, Natural Disasters
Our daily diet of news headlines these days seems to be concentrated on world disasters making us ask the question, ‘Where is God in all of this?’ In this piece from the archives, we look at the importance of hope – especially important these days. So how do we keep going, and continue to find hope? Eileen […]
Posted on 05. Mar, 2020 in Church Teachings, Feminism/Women in the Church
As the topic of women in the Church comes to the fore, we take a look back at this piece about Mary Magdalene from March 2005, around the time of the publication of ‘The Da Vinci Code’. She has been referred to the second most important women in the New Testament after Mary, the mother of Jesus. […]
Posted on 27. Feb, 2020 in Celibacy/Sexuality, Feminism/Women in the Church
In this piece from the archive we take a look back at Pope John Paul II, who was in many ways the He has been considered quite radical in social areas but quite conservative in areas regarding women and sexual morality. Gina Menzies talks about Pope John Paul and his very contradictory views, from […]