Year: 2024

There are a few lines in one of Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages, where he refers to the edge between land and sea. Link to The Dry Savages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dry_Salvages “…….

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Please note: The Wood You Believe Retreat scheduled for July 16 to 19th in Slí an Chroí Retreat Centre in St Patrick’s College Kiltegan is now fully booked as is…

DONALD TRUMP:  I didn’t think it possible that twelve people could agree, but they did. It happened rather quickly. Donald Trump was found guilty last evening. One of my female…

For anyone interested in a Wood You Believe Retreat that will focus on healing both at a personal and ancestral level there is one scheduled for July 16 to 19in…

From the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference Website: Caption (L-R) Bishop Donal Roche and Bishop Paul Dempsey, new Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of Dublin, pictured during Trinity Sunday Mass for…

Vatican News reports The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, tells reporters that Pope Francis is “aware” of the articles about a closed-door conversation with Italian Bishops,…

EGRETS AND MAN U: The Dutch man was very happy this morning. I met him as I walked back from the beach. He was happy for Erik ten Hag. (I even…

Western People 21.5.2024 A Dublin parish priest recently took exception to what he regarded as critical comments about priests by Pope Francis and Fr Tony Flannery in The Tablet, a…

The Synodal Times May 23 The call for equal rights and the ordination of women is getting louder and louder in the Catholic Church – at least in the West….

The life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French priest-paleontologist-visionary, suppressed by his Jesuit order for advocating evolution is revealed in a drama of personal awakening, a search for meaning,…

Last Sunday a feature on Lay Led Funerals last Sunday in Killala diocese was broadcast on Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive programme with Monica Morley and Fr Brendan Hoban. It’s part…

RUSSELL BRAND: Was baptised in the Thames recently. Sceptical observers smiled with disbelief at his conversion. There was an easy suggestion that this conversion might be very convenient. I kept thinking…

BY CHRISTOPHER WHITE, Vatican Correspondent, Rome — May 21, 2024 Pope Francis expressed firm opposition to the idea of ordaining Catholic women as deacons in a new U.S. television interview,…

Notices: Next week’s postings will be a few days late in arriving. Three pieces of Wood You Believe wood-art are for sale on e-Bay with proceeds going to Mary’s Meals….

Western People 14.5.2024 Why would anyone want to be a politician in Ireland? The late John Kelly, a Dublin TD and UCD academic, once justified his own obsession with politics…

Pentecost “Yes, but how account for their gift of Tongues? And how explain – oh how explain! –   the sudden reversal in the Galileans –  from feckless to fearless?..” – from Conclave: Inside the…