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  • Soline Humbert writes…

    December 29 2020
    Soline Humbert

    December 28th also marked the 50th anniversary of the ordination to the priesthood of Ludmila Javorova in the underground Roman Catholic church in Czechoslovakia during the communist regime and persec

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  • Séamus Ahearne on New Year’s Day…

    January 1 2021
    Eddie+Finnegan

    Thanks again, Seamus, and a Happy New Year. A happy new archbishop might be asking too much. I see Francis could do with a sturdy stick and a new ferrule. His sciatica is not something we hear much ab

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  • Chris McDonnell’s ‘Catholic Times’ column – This Christmas Season

    December 31 2020
    Kevin Walters

    “Without vision the people perish”. The question frequently arises, whose vision and where does it come from? That surely is the essence of our Christian Mission, to offer a vision of hope to a

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  • Soline Humbert writes…

    December 29 2020
    George Lynch

    From Irish Times 31/12/2020; Orla Muldoon, professor of psychology at University of Limerick, writing about the GAA "The Catholic Church, Fianna Fáil and the GAA were once described as the three pil

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  • Brendan Hoban’s ‘Western People’ Christmas column

    December 28 2020
    Mary Vallely

    Oh Kevin I love your spirit! Happiness IS before us and the rainbow WILL show itself again. As people of faith we believe that the Light always shines in the darkness although sometimes we don’t ope

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  • 7th day in the Octave of Christmas

    December 31 2020
    CHRIS+FERNANDES

    I feel very strongly that Mass should include a time for Spirit-filled praise by the entire congregation. Loud chanting may not be feasible but we can scream from our hearts, invoking the Spirit of tr

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  • Roy Donovan: We need a new kind of Crib…

    December 29 2020
    Soline Humbert

    Matthew does not tell us that there were three magi and that they were all men... https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/simply-spirit/epiphany-wise-women

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  • January 01. Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God

    January 1 2021
    Thara+Benedicta

    New Year message: When Almighty God is our Dad, then no worries!! Homily: Takeaway from first reading: New Year Blessing for the congregation: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face t

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  • Brendan Hoban’s ‘Western People’ Christmas column

    December 28 2020
    Kevin Walters

    “Find a clear space where you can hear what life is saying to you” Who will buy, a bit of heaven? Gold and silver have their place But happiness is before your face Man’s spirit is a tim

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  • Tony Flannery reflects on the appointment of the new Archbishop of Dublin

    December 29 2020
    Eddie+Finnegan

    And maybe by 2029, Dubliner Brendan Leahy, barrister, professor at both Mater Dei and Maynooth, with 16 years bishoping behind him, will be given a final six years as Dublin's Archbishop. Six to nine

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