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  • Séamus Ahearne: On being ‘a lovely priest’ and no intention of retiring!

    July 2 2021
    Paddy Ferry

    Paddy Ferry Says: Seamus Ahearne: On being “a lovely priest” ….. Worth repeating this, I think, Seamus. And, I am more convinced than ever that my theory is correct. Since I first wrote this I h

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  • Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church

    January 23 2023
    Eddie Finnegan

    Joe@5, Otto died in July 2011 aged 98. A stroll through the Kapuzinergruft is well worth the ticket, if only to contrast the relative simplicity of Otto's 21st century coffin with all the ancestral de

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  • Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church

    January 23 2023
    Sean O’Conaill

    Disillusioned? About the survivability of monarchy and aristocracy? The superior virtue of the class to which she belonged? The long term prospect of European peace following the Congress of Vienna in

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  • Séamus Ahearne: On being ‘a lovely priest’ and no intention of retiring!

    July 2 2021
    MARY LOMAX

    My husband and I met the young Father Seamus when we were stationed in Scotland with the US Navy, 1980-1983. Through Marriage Encounter in Dundee, we were involved in several group family gatherings w

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  • Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church

    January 23 2023
    Joe O'Leary

    I went on the Sissi trail this summer -- saw the beautiful statues of her in Geneva and Budapest, her rooms in the Hofburg and her sarcophagus in the Kapuzinergruft. The burial ceremony there, last pe

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  • The AP Interview: Pope says homosexuality not a crime

    January 25 2023
    Soline Humbert

    A necessary clarification from Pope Francis https://outreach.faith/2023/01/pope-francis-clarifies-comments-on-homosexuality-one-must-consider-the-circumstances/?_thumbnail_id=4545

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  • 29 Jan 2023 – 4th Sunday, (A)

    January 29 2023
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: Suffering is an asset. We will enjoy and realize its benefits once it is gone!! Homily: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the ki

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  • Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church

    January 23 2023
    Sean O’Conaill

    Three highly romanticised movies about Sissi were made in the 1950s, apparently to give post-Anschluss Austria a distinctive and also definitely not-Nazi sense of itself. Rene Girard has a fascinating

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  • Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church

    January 23 2023
    Eddie Finnegan

    Oh Sean, I fear your education on Austro-Hibernian Catholic Christendom has been sadly neglected, but I see Joe has got in there before me to mend the gap. "Erin cordially welcomes the Empress" may he

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  • Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church

    January 23 2023
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, "'Sissi', Empress of Austria - currently a fascinating focus of streaming media and the history of anorexia - was foxhunting in Ireland in 1888)". The dates were 1879 and 1880. There is a fascin

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