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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Patrick

    My wife divorced me and remarried. The children have now decided not to practice their faith because their parents have to remain seated in full view of the parishioners during Communion like outcasts

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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Prodigal Son

    “Parsing the words of Pope Francis” in this instance is not quite the “notoriously hazardous undertaking” that John Allen claims. He is mistaken in claiming that while “what the pope said

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    Bernard Cotter

    Thanks, Martin, for a wonderful summary of the life of a great priest. Willie was unique and wonderful. Not only was he a planner and a strategist but he never lost touch with people and their needs.

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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Michael Maginn

    Nurse (for C) Not of her own choosing my friend is married outside the Church. For her abusive marriage of more than twenty torturous years still stands. Ministering to the Body of Christ during her w

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    Brendan Hoban

    My compliments to Martin Kennedy on his tribute to Willie, God rest him. I can't say that I knew him well but he has been, for many years, one of the prophets of our time, unusual in Ireland and, I su

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    Peter Farrelly

    Thanks, Martin for a well deserved, sensitive and perceptive tribute... Willie's strengths and weaknesses, his faith and vision. We miss him.

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    ts

    Maybe now would be a good time to say thank you to all the good priests we have in Ireland. The last number of years haven't been easy but they served and continue to serve. Despite whatever difficult

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  • Hiroshima 06 August 1945 – The Sturgeon Moon

    August 4 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    http://americamagazine.org/issue/bombing-japan-was-it-only-option

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  • Hiroshima 06 August 1945 – The Sturgeon Moon

    August 4 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    If the Hiroshima bomb exploded in Dublin over Christchurch Cathedral, there would be total destruction of everything within a two-mile radius. This would be from Phoenix Park in the west to the port i

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  • Hiroshima 06 August 1945 – The Sturgeon Moon

    August 4 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Fr. Robert Cushing III, an original founding member of the USACP, was relieved of his duties at his parish for participating in a pilgrimage to Japan to apologize to Japan's people for the United Stat

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