Crowds of Univ. Students, Nuns, Priests Carry Wooden Cross Through Poland’s Streets in Way of the Cross Tradition
The Academic Way of the Cross is an annual tradition in Wrocław. This year, a large wooden cross was carried by students from all academic chaplaincies. Wrocław citizens, seminarians, priests, nuns, friars, and all the bishops of Wrocław led by Archbishop Józef Kupny walked and prayed together. Participants of the Academic Way of the Cross […]
The Seven Last Words of Christ: Powerful Meditations By Ven. Abp. Fulton Sheen
Why should we meditate on the final words of Jesus from the cross? Caroline Perkins, ChurchPOP As Venerable Fulton J. Sheen explained: “There was never a preacher like the dying Christ. There was never a congregation like that which gathered about the pulpit of the Cross. There was never a sermon like the Seven Last […]
The Prayer of Jesus in the Garden
The Last Supper being over, the discourse finished, and the hymn of thanksgiving said, Jesus leaves the supper-room with his eleven Apostles and enters the Garden of Gethsemane. Consider: 1. Jesus is in the habit of retiring after the fatigues of the day, to pass the night in solitude and prayer. Even on this last […]
Fired for speaking the truth about Covid
Theo McDonald The Covid-19 pandemic left many victims in its wake. The scale of the pathogens’ spread led policy makers to implement some of the most stringent and far-reaching restrictions on everyday life. Individuals were prevented from travelling beyond a certain radius of their home with several thousand businesses and other public venues shuttered or… […]
Success over integrity has become the name of the game in Irish politics
The first person I met in the car park last Wednesday was Michael Healy-Rae. As usual, he had the phone to his ear. “Just a minute, Rónán,” he said, temporarily putting his caller on hold. “I’m hearing there’s a political earthquake about to happen and journalists are being summoned to Government buildings.” “You’re joking,” I… […]
The vicious hounding of the Princess of Wales
Humanity has always been flawed. We do not need to read the account of creation to know the extent of those flaws. Since time began it seems, the world has been at war. A world which is capable of providing for all its people, if we all but lived as we are called to live,… […]
Distinguished sculptor whose works adorn many churches dies age 96
Acclaimed German-Irish sculptor Imogen Stuart, who produced a sculpture of Pope John Paul II, located in St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, and the altar and baptismal font of the Honan Chapel on the grounds of University College Cork, died last Monday at age 96. Born in Berlin, Ms Stuart was the daughter of art critic… […]
Where the next Easter might come from
We must wait patiently for a pro-life and pro-family social revolution, writes David Quinn Even if you do not have a believing bone in your body, are totally sceptical of all religious claims and absolutely dismiss the possibility of miracles, it is still the case that something incredible happened over the first Easter period… […]
Expert debunks ‘dangerous’ myths about Catholic education
An expert in Catholic education has hit back at “lazy” and “dangerous” myths perpetuated against Catholic education. Referencing Catholic education as ‘segregated’ or ‘an apartheid schooling system’ reinforces division and is “harmful to both the individual and social cohesion”, school chaplain and education expert Dr Aidan Donaldson has said. These arguments are “lazy and prejudicial”,… […]
Families more likely than patients to express need for assisted suicide says carer
Family members of patients receiving palliative care are more likely to express a view that it would be better if the patient were no longer alive than patients themselves, according to an experienced palliative carer. Dr Faith Cranfield can count “on one hand” the number of people she has worked with in 10 years as… […]