Last Priests TV doc on again 1 Sept @ 11.05pm
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.
And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also at 11.05pm
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.
And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also at 11.05pm
‘And give us minds to comprehend driblets of Your design, awing us with skies and tides and glittering dust.’ (Pádraig Daly- A Small Psalter) Great Sport: The Meath girls did…
The way through Chris McDonnell CT February 12. 2021 So many of the pieces created by the Yorkshire sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) involve the piercing of wood or stone, finding…
Irish Mail Fri 10 Jan 2025 Tony Flannery on RTÉ’s Drivetime Thurs 9 Jan 2025: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22479408 The Tablet magazine: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/nuns-vilified-but-afraid-to-challenge-unjust-portrayal-say-irish-priests Tony Flannery on Radio Kerry https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/kerry-today/are-nuns-unfairly-vilified-january-9th-2025-416515
Celebrating Eucharist through the medium of Zoom: A radical experiment. ”The Sabbath was made for human beings, not human beings for the Sabbath” (Mk 2:27) I am writing these lines…
An old work song sets Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, reflecting on the beauty and awesome power of water. His musings lead him to think “It is a time of aridity in the Church, so much has happened that has left us parched and thirsty, casting about, looking for a drink to satisfy our thirst.”
LEGLESS BUT FLYING: Birgid Skarstein. Has 11 World Championship medals. 7 in Rowing and 4 in Cross country skiing. She is a Paralympic. She is Norwegian. She had an accident…
Having recently read Brendan’s excellent book, “Holding out for a Hero” and his description of the despair when it became obvious that the very conservative, autocratic John Paul II was intent on abandoning the ideals of Vatican II and returning our church to the nineteenth century, one of the former priests on last nights program “The Last Priests” summed it up so well when he said that with Wojtyla in Rome we were on a train in reverse gear heading back into the last century.
Link to programme(s):
https://programmesales.rte.ie/programme/the-last-priests-nuns-in-ireland