Posted on 04. Apr, 2019 in Community, Crime, Death, Ecology, Humanitarian Aid, Young people
Aoife Hearne from Operation Transformation to host ‘Tigers’ The promotion of formula is very problematic, so says Aoife Hearne, Dietician from Operation Transformation and member of BFGLI, Baby Feeding Law Group Ireland. BFGLI They will be holding a private screening of the movie ‘Tigers’ in the Light House cinema in Dublin on Monday April 8th. 12 years […]
Posted on 07. Mar, 2019 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Community, Death, Gospel Values, Humane Vitae
Eddie Stones healer and family man talks about the future for Emmanuel House where himself and his wife work. He has worked there for years, but hopes that someone else can take over the work. Eddie talks about how even in the deepest of tragedies, you need to step back and see if you can […]
Posted on 27. Dec, 2018 in Community, Conflict, Death, Faith and Justice, Grief
Fr Paddy McCafferty is the PP in Springhill Parish in West Belfast a parish that was shook in 1972 by the shooting and killing of civilians. One year before another massacre had taken place in Ballymurphy where more civilians were shot. The families of all the victims have been looking for justice for years. Now […]
Posted on 15. Nov, 2018 in Achievement, Charity, Christian Values, Church Teachings, Conflict, Death, Faith and Justice, Humanitarian Aid, Saints
‘Each one of you must be a microphone of God, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet’ St Oscar Romero 1917-1980 St Oscar Romero was recently canonised for his work in El Salvador. He worked closely with Trócaire in the 1970s to speak out about corruption in El Salvador. At the […]
Posted on 01. Nov, 2018 in Achievement, Christian Values, Community, Conflict, Death, Faith and Justice, Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
Photographed from left to right is Emily O’Reilly EU Ombusman; Ronan Tynan and Anne Daly of Esperanza Productions; Eileen Good chairperson of the jury and Peter Dunn director of the Radharc Trust The Radharc Awards recently took place in the Talbot Hotel in Stillorgan. The Awards honour television documentaries addressing national […]
Posted on 25. Oct, 2018 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Community, Death, Saints
In this last part on the topic of death with author and lecturer Brian Grogan SJ, we look at Purgatory and the process of purification in terms of us being inclusive and in loving communication with others. Pat also asks about the possibility of doing this here on earth which prompts Brian to look […]
Posted on 18. Oct, 2018 in Christian Values, Church Teachings, Death
As we approach the feast of All Souls we look at the second part of Brian Grogan’s piece on death. Jesuit and author of the book, Where to from Here” The Christian Vision of the Afterlife, he explores this topic in depth. Here he looks at the unconditional nature of God’s love and talks about hell […]
Posted on 04. Oct, 2018 in Community, Death
Anam Cara is an organisation that supports bereaved parents and will hold its next monthly parent evening on Monday 8th of October at 7:20pm in the Maldron Hotel, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Sharon Vard, one of the founders of Anam Cara lost her own daughter Rachel to an inoperable brain tumour. She talks about how meeting […]
Posted on 27. Sep, 2018 in Death, Spirituality
Brian Grogan SJ has long been intrigued by the question of life after death. Author of the book, Where to from Here” The Christian Vision of the Afterlife, he explores this topic in depth. He explains that it started as academic research, but then became more pressing as he himself started to get older. He is […]
Posted on 06. Sep, 2018 in Community, Death
On August 2nd Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), the national Catholic organization in the US working to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice, celebrated the revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to say that, in all cases, the death penalty is “inadmissible” (Revised Catechism of the Catholic Church 2267). “This is a capstone […]