2023 at the movies…
I refused to become a Barbenheimer during the year. When I was growing up there was a perfectly respectable practice of showing ‘small’ pictures and ‘big’ ones, despite the threat of the infamous ‘Paramount decree’ of 1948. The post 2023 at the movies… appeared first on The Irish Catholic.
The dark days of 1877 in the Golden Vale
A classic of Irish journalism: William O’Brien’s ‘Christmas on the Galtees’ from the grim winter of 1877 by Felix M Larkin In the days after Christmas 1877, The Freeman’s Journal published a series of five articles that are generally acknowledged as the earliest piece of investigative journalism in Ireland. Entitled ‘Christmas on the Galtees’, they […]
Irish nun receives Oireachtas award
94-year-old Columban Nun who worked with child victims of drugs in Dublin, directed a medical clinic in Myanmar and helped set up a rehabilitation hospital in Egypt for paralysed soldiers was honoured at a ceremony in Leinster House. The post Irish nun receives Oireachtas award appeared first on The Irish Catholic.
Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl: A missionary and a mystic
The 20th Century was one of history’s most violent and war-torn, marked by atheistic, anti-human revolutions and ideologies that continue today. The post Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl: A missionary and a mystic appeared first on The Irish Catholic.
Catholic New Year’s Resolutions
As each new year evening and day arrive, most people plan to make resolutions for the upcoming year. Many select such goals as losing weight, following a healthier meal plan, exercising more, and even cutting back on bad habits: smoking, drinking, gambling, and other off-the-chart pastimes. Some of these goals may be positive, but shouldn’t […]
The Enduring Importance of Veritatis Splendor
Before 2023 becomes a memory, I want to salute a significant 30th anniversary. Thirty years ago Pope Saint John Paul II published an encyclical on morality called Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth). This was the first time a pope had set out the formal principles of the Church’s moral reasoning, and it remains a […]