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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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  • Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church

    January 23 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    "All the commentary, and all the criticism, is based on the false premise that Irish Catholicism has been and still is a sole body." Fergus O'Donoghue's very interesting article could be expanded i

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  • The AP Interview: Pope says homosexuality not a crime

    January 25 2023
    Michael J. Toner

    One of the main themes of the pontificate of Francis has been the utter dependency we all have on God`s mercy. Which is so because we sin. So it`s not as if he`s unaware of it or wishes to pretend it

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  • The AP Interview: Pope says homosexuality not a crime

    January 25 2023
    Pat Savage

    I think he also mentioned "sin" but sure look the next thing we will told by certain clergy that 'sin' isn't a reality it's just a man made function.

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