Posted on 14. Nov, 2007 in Crime, Discrimination, Faith and Justice, Prison, Prisoner Sunday
Prisons and prisoners are words constantly in the headlines these days. Do we care about prisoners or their conditions? Should we care about them? This coming Sunday, November 18th is designated Prisoner’s Sunday when we are encouraged to think about those in prison, their families and those who look after them. Eileen Good spoke to […]
Posted on 14. Nov, 2007 in Music
Our music track this week, Come to the Feast Divine, is taken from Liam Lawton’s album In the Quiet.
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Music
Our music track this week, Woman of God, is taken from Maeve Heaney’s album Stand.
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Church Teachings, Faith and Justice, Spirituality, Technology
November is a month when we get a sense of the encroaching darkness and death in the natural world. It is also a time traditionally when we pray for the dead. And in this age of technology, prayer comes in the form of a website. Miriam Gormally met Piaras Jackson who works with the Jesuit […]
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Charity, Church Teachings, Poverty
St Ann’s is a church at the heart of Dublin city with the city at its heart and this year it is celebrating 300 years of ministry over the years 1707 -2007. The church itself is located beside the Lord Mayors Mansion House on Dawson Street in Dublin City Centre. Eileen Good met up with […]
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Community, Discrimination, Faith and Justice
Increasingly in Ireland today, we are becoming more aware of the need to reach out to the migrants living among us; but how can we do this in a way that shows care for the people involved rather than seeing them as a ‘problem’ to be addressed? The Irish Episcopal Commission for Emigrants is hosting […]
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Church Teachings, Community, Faith and Justice
Maeve Heaney is a young Irish woman currently studying in Rome under the guidance of Fr. Michael Paul Gallagher. She studied theology in Spain and has worked with young people doing Pastoral work, in Spain and England – she uses music in the work of Faith transmission. She is also a member of Verbum Dei […]
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Achievement, Church Teachings, Faith and Justice
The Church has been in the media a great deal recently, mostly for scandals and abuse stories, but what of the good things being done daily by people involved with the Church. Fr. Gerry Maloney, editor of Reality magazine, recently launched “The Reality Awards” to encourage the Irish public to show appreciation for those involved […]
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Church Teachings, Religious teaching, Vocation
Fr. Paddy Rushe of the Armagh Diocese is the National Co-Ordinator for Diocesan Vocations – he told Eileen Good about their recent conference where participants were encouraged to ‘raise the bar’ and aim to have 100 seminarians in training by next year’s conference. He started by explaining the theme taken for this year’s conference.
Posted on 31. Oct, 2007 in Church Teachings, Feminism/Women in the Church
Are men and women equal in the eyes of God? Christ treated all equally, often even defying the social norm, yet this equality hasn’t been central to Christianity with women constantly taking second place. Mary T. Malone has written several books on Women in Christian History, and believes that women are often left with little […]