Seán Walsh: Christmas Poem

Liam Power, in daring to hope, reminds us that “in the midst of the chaos precipitated by this virus, we must struggle to discover some meaning, some basis for our hope.”

Global Sisters Report, a project of the National Catholic Reporter, carries an article by Sarah Mac Donald about Sr. Carmel McEnroy who died recently in Galway.
Sr Carmel McEnroy was author of a groundbreaking work on the role of women in the Second Vatican Council,Guests in Their Own House: The Women of Vatican II.

‘SPACE BECOMES PLACE AS WE GET TO KNOW IT AND ENDOW IT WITH VALUES’  – Yi-Fu Tuan Despite the increasing secular and scientific nature of contemporary Western society, with its dependence…

Is a word searching for somewhere to be used! Or someone to be used about. That word fits neatly into yesterday. I shouldn’t take pleasure in such events, or in…

Brendan Hoban reviews Michael Paul Gallagher’s “Into Extra Time.”

‘Michael Paul worried that publishing such a personal narrative would seem to inflate his own experience or appear too self-centred and pious and he found writing a book that would be read only when he was dead a strange moment in his life. But he need not have worried. It is, I believe, the most important book he has written.’