Posted on 18. Sep, 2014 in Christian Values, Community, Gospel Values
Increased media attention has been drawn to the lives of those living under the Direct Provision system in Ireland. On Wednesday September 17th, Ronan Mullin put a motion before the Seanad calling for changes in the operation of the Direct Provision system. “In big ways and little ways, human dignity is disregarded,” he said adding […]
Posted on 18. Sep, 2014 in Charity, Christian Values, Humanitarian Aid
The GAA All Ireland Championship Final is talking place this weekend. 82,000 people will take up seats in Croke Park. It’s one of the biggest crowds we can imagine. But Fr. Robert McCabe, priest in the Diocese of Meath wants people to go further in imagining multiples of this crowd on the march and displaced […]
Posted on 04. Sep, 2014 in Christian Values, Conflict
Fr Robert McCabe is challenging Irish Christians to walk in solidarity with our fellow Christians and other religious minorities who have been displaced from their homes in recent months in Iraq, Syria and Nigeria. These people have been forced to flee by the Islamic State. Launching on the 14th of September, the challenge to walk will […]
Posted on 10. Jul, 2014 in Christian Values, Young people
The image of online dating as something for people who can’t meet anybody elsewhere is long gone. It is now a respectable and useful way of meeting new people, that allows you to be up front about what it is you are looking for. Wendy Grace, Managing Director of Compass Communications, and features writer with […]
Posted on 10. Jul, 2014 in Christian Values, Music
James Kilbane has put together his latest album, “River of Grace”. In it he musically represents some of the important stages in the unfolding story of the Scriptures and in the development of his own personal Christian faith. The River of Grace album captures some of the central moments and key people caught up in […]
Posted on 03. Jul, 2014 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Humane Vitae
David Quinn, columnist with the Irish Independent and the Irish Catholic as well as director of the Iona Institute has rejected the comments by former president Mary McAleese. She described Pope Francis’s plan to ask a synod of bishops to advise him on whether church teaching on the family should change as “completely bonkers”. He says that the comment […]
Posted on 26. Jun, 2014 in Christian Values, Crime, Gospel Values, Humane Vitae, Uncategorized
“Those who go down the evil path, as the Mafiosi do, are not in communion with God. They are excommunicated,” Pope Francis said on Saturday June 21st in Calabria, a mob-heavy region in southern Italy. The thousands who had gathered underneath the hot sun cheered. Pope Francis’ pronouncement was the strongest censure of the mafia so […]
Posted on 05. Jun, 2014 in Christian Values, Conflict, Death
In his book “War’s End”, Séamus Murphy SJ, associate professor in the Philosophy Department at Loyola University, Chicago looks at the rights and wrongs of war. Is there ever a justified war? What is the Christian view of war? Is war a necessary evil or is it something that society can move beyond? Talking with Pat […]
Posted on 17. Apr, 2014 in Christian Values, Easter, Feminism/Women in the Church, Gospel Values, Holy Week, Lent, Liturgy, Saints, Seasons of the Church Year
The Women of Easter: When we think of Good Friday we might wonder what happened since he entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, or the crowd calling out ‘crucify him’ or we might turn our attention to Pilot, to the soldiers or to Simon who helped Jesus carry his cross. Dr Noirín Ní Riain talked […]
Posted on 17. Apr, 2014 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Gospel Values
Conor Deane went to speak with James Mahon the leader of an amazing youth group within the Catholic Church that started from humble beginnings and today has grown into a national movement and indeed an all island movement. James Mahon is a young man who has placed his career as a lawyer on hold to […]