Posted on 06. Oct, 2016 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Community, Conflict, Education
Mercy Sr. Camille D’Arienzo has worked as an educator, reporter and writer. She is most famously known as the religious commentator for 1010 WINS radio, an all news radio station based in New York that has been on air for 50 years, with a listenership of half a million. D’Arienzo lives in the Diocese of […]
Posted on 29. Sep, 2016 in Charity, Christian Values, Community, Gospel Values, Young people
Susan Conroy is the author of “Mother Teresa’s Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity” a first hand account of her time spend working with her in India. An idealistic young volunteer, author Susan Conroy went to work in one of Mother Teresa’s orphanages and in the Home for the Dying. “In a city where I […]
Posted on 29. Sep, 2016 in Art, Christian Values, Community, Feminism/Women in the Church, Gospel Values
Surrender – one of Doris Klein’s works Doris Klein is a member of the Congregation of Sisters of Agnes. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ministers as a spiritual director, artist and graphic designer. She says she never considered herself to be an artist until one day she found that her drawings and watercolours were inspiring other. People saw […]
Posted on 29. Sep, 2016 in Christian Values, Church of Ireland, Church Teachings, Community, Liturgy
The Very Reverend Dr William Morton has been elected Dean and Ordinary of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Elections took place last evening (9th May 2016). Dean Morton was ordained deacon in 1988 and priested in 1989. He has been Dean of St Columb’s Cathedral in the Diocese of Derry since 1997. He was appointed to […]
Posted on 08. Sep, 2016 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Climate Change, Community, Ecology, Environment, Faith Groups
“Everything is interconnected, and this invites us to develop a spirituality of that global solidarity which flows from the mystery of the Trinity.” This is the quote from Pope Francis which inspires Loving Sister Earth. On Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th October, they will be leading creative prayer rituals, which will be live streamed globally […]
Posted on 08. Sep, 2016 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Climate Change, Community, Ecology, Environment, Nature, Recycling
Inspired by Laudato Si’, Frank Sammon, SJ has established a ‘Care for Our Common Home’ based in Rathgar Parish. The group aims to promote the encyclical’s message both within Rathgar parish, and in the greater Dublin region. It hopes to stimulate discussion on key issues such as climate justice, and to translate such discussion into […]
Posted on 01. Sep, 2016 in Community, Conflict
On September 10th, over lunch in the Westin Hotel Dublin there will be a launch of an important global awareness campaign for women and peace, “Women’s Peace Tables Worldwide”. Dublin has been chosen as the location for the launch that will be the first of over a hundred peace table gatherings taking place in more […]
Posted on 01. Sep, 2016 in Charity, Christian Values, Church Teachings, Community, Faith and Justice
Ailish O’Brien rsm has spent the last year in South Sudan. Inspired by a letter she got from an organisation “Solidarity with South Sudan” looking for volunteers, she decided to commit three years of her life to working there. The decision to go was difficult. She explains how she prayed on it and asked the […]
Posted on 01. Sep, 2016 in Christian Values, Church of Ireland, Community, Feminism/Women in the Church, Gospel Values
Pat Storey, Ireland’s first woman bishop talks about her personal understanding and experience of mercy in this jubilee year declared by Pope Francis. She focuses on a phrase that resonates with her, “grace is getting what you don’t deserve, mercy is not getting what you do deserve” and says that this is true in her […]
Posted on 28. Jul, 2016 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Community, Gospel Values
Professor Patrick Riordan (Heythrop College) talks about how people of faith can respond to a secular world. In his paper entitled, The Secular is not Scary: Cooperation beyond Coexistence, he looks at the values that the Church and secular society can learn from each other. He also explores how in the past the Church and State fought to have the ultimate […]