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  • Light after Darkness

    April 17 2020
    Chris McDonnell

    John @1 My own words John Chris

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  • 19 April, 2020. 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)

    April 19 2020
    Seamus Ahearne

    That was the week that was. It passed us by. We were observers rather than participants. We felt abandoned. It happened without us. The Emmaus journey. Our journey. Hearts burning. Recognition. At t

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  • Light after Darkness

    April 17 2020
    John Kirwin

    Please give the source/author of ‘Shorn sheep . .

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  • How Covid-19 will shape the future?

    April 15 2020
    Frank Graham

    Thank you Sean for your thought provoking article. You certainly get to the crux of the matter. We humans have been gifted with the care of the natural world but, unfortunately, in our modern industr

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  • Apropos of grasshopper ideas

    April 10 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Another interesting piece by a German bishop, this time by Bishop Georg Batzing who is the new chair of the German Bishops' Conference. Apart from expressing his views on faithfull same sex relationsh

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  • Irish wakes were never meant to be like this …

    April 17 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    I have often told friends over here--Scottish friends --that we Irish deal with death in a special way. And, Brendan's article explains it perfectly. The Irish tradition, with our wakes and funerals,

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  • Irish wakes were never meant to be like this …

    April 17 2020
    Daithi O'Muirneachain

    Indeed "Irish Wakes were never meant to be like this". Fr.Brendan's article is a very sobering and welcome one. He highlights one of the major sorrows of the present time of severe crisis. However, I

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  • Irish wakes were never meant to be like this …

    April 17 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Here is Thucydides on the plague in Athens in 329-326 BCE: Some victims were neglected and died; others died despite a great deal of care. There was not a single remedy, you might say, which ou

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  • Irish wakes were never meant to be like this …

    April 17 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Plague literature, now back in vogue, chronicles the breakdown of all social decency under the full brunt of a pestilence. Despite the pain that Brendan chronicles, Ireland is bearing the ordeal with

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  • Apropos of grasshopper ideas

    April 10 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Another view on the Eucharist during this present lockdown from the German bishop, Bishop Wilmer. https://novenanews.com/covid-19-german-bishop-obsession-with-eucharist/?fbclid=IwAR04JT1_FarSbF1PeSv8

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