Posted on 12. Jun, 2014 in Education, Uncategorized
All Hallows, a college which was set up in 1842 as a seminary, is to close. Miriam Gormally met with Carolanne Henry the Director of Marketing, Communications and Public Relations Marketing said that the decision was made with “with huge regret and deep sadness”. She added that “the college, which is not in receipt of State grants […]
Posted on 29. May, 2014 in Church Teachings, Homelessness, Uncategorized
We often have a very stereotypical view of homeless people as drug addicts or alcoholics, what Fr. Peter McVerry SJ calls the “visible homeless”. However there are lots of people who fall into the homeless category and in recent times there has been an increase in the new homeless, people without any major social or […]
Posted on 22. May, 2014 in Achievement, Music, Uncategorized
Singer, songwriter and composer, Eamon Keane is also a counsellor. He comes from an artistic family — actor father, Eamonn, musician mother, Maura Hassett, journalist brother, Fergal, playwright uncle, John B — and his talents are eclectic. In the last year alone, the former Newstalk presenter has performed twice at the National Concert Hall and composed the score […]
Posted on 22. May, 2014 in Saints, Uncategorized
Last month hundreds of thousands of people gathered at Rome to witness the canonisation of two great figures of 20th-century Roman Catholicism. An estimated 3,000 Irish people joined them; Michael Kelly, editor of the Irish Catholic was among them. Here he talks with Miriam Gormally about the event and the significance of the occasion in […]
Posted on 15. May, 2014 in Conflict, Uncategorized
Falun Gong is a discipline that combines meditation and slow-moving gigong exercises with a moral philosophy. Those who practice Falun Gong have been subject to a persecution campaign started by the Chinese Communist Party in July 1999. It is aimed at eliminating the practice in the People’s Republic of China. According to Amnesty International, it includes […]
Posted on 08. May, 2014 in Uncategorized
This Sunday May 11 at 3pm, hundreds of people from all over Ireland will come to the People’s Chapel in Clongowes Wood College, near the village of Clane. The people will to attend a mass of thanksgiving and prayer for the canonisation of the remarkable Jesuit John Sullivan SJ, a Portora educated Protestant who converted […]
Posted on 04. Apr, 2014 in Charity, Community, Gospel Values, Prayer, Uncategorized, Vocation
Conor Deane went out to Stillorgan to talk with Frank Bodley about his initiative to get the faithful praying for the seminarians. The initiative began in 2008 and today it has almost 4,000 people now praying with Frank for a particular seminarian without the knowledge of that seminarian until many years later and by accident […]
Posted on 14. Feb, 2014 in Uncategorized
Proinsias Mac Brádaigh SJ is the editor of the book ‘An Chuallacht Léannta’ which explores the huge contibution of Irish Jesuits to the Irish lanuguage and our culture. In this 2nd part of an interview he gave to Pat Coyle of Jesuit Communications he talks about the whole venture. Jesuits who loved their ‘teanga dúchais’… Seo leabhar […]
Posted on 22. Nov, 2013 in Uncategorized
Rev Richard Leonard SJ continues to talk about his own faith and that of his orders founder – St. Ignatius. Rev Dr Richard Leonard SJ is the director of the Australian Catholic Film Office and author of Movies That Matter: Reading Film Through The Lens of Faith and […]
Posted on 26. Sep, 2013 in Uncategorized
Saint Pio (Pius) of Pietrelcina, O.F.M. Cap. (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968) was a Capuchin Catholic priest from Italy who is venerated as a one of the greatest saints of our time in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name Pius (Italian: Pio) when he joined the […]