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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
This new Commission is set as a response to a 2019 request by most of our Amazonian Bishops.
Yet, even if Cardinal Hummes with our Bishops are not allowed to act, laypeople will do. Indeed, here in no
Padraig, no, the paywall comes up again. Maybe if you look once it's ok, but no more than once."They will hound him to his grave" we are told. The very "accanimento" of which Pope Francis spoke.He
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April 15 2020Thank 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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Irish wakes were never meant to be like this …
April 17 2020Indeed "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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April 17 2020Here 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
Irish wakes were never meant to be like this …
April 17 2020Plague 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
Apropos of grasshopper ideas
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April 29 2020Padraig, no, the paywall comes up again. Maybe if you look once it's ok, but no more than once."They will hound him to his grave" we are told. The very "accanimento" of which Pope Francis spoke.He
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