Words of Welcome…in various languages
Following on from Bernard Cotter’s multilingual ‘welcome notes’ in today’s Presider’s Page Pádraig McCarthy forwarded a few more handy hints – words of welcome…


Following on from Bernard Cotter’s multilingual ‘welcome notes’ in today’s Presider’s Page Pádraig McCarthy forwarded a few more handy hints – words of welcome…


May 1980. A phone call from Tom Walsh, my nephew, to say my mother was poorly and would I like to share the journey with him to Ennis to visit…
From RTÉ News Online: https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/0906/1532169-vatican-lgbtq/ In a first for the Vatican, more than a thousand LGBTQ Catholics and their supporters are this weekend holding a pilgrimage, in what they are…
Biog: My scripts have been broadcast on RTÉ, Radio One, BBC 4 and, in translation, on European networks; televised on RTÉ One, BBC One and Channel 4; staged at the…
David Crystal: History The idea for this site arose during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Priests were streaming Masses online and many were having to do the readings themselves, which…
Taken from the Pro Terra Sancta website. giulia colaluce 5 January 2024 It was a Christmas without pilgrims in Bethlehem. The context of crisis due to the war has alienated…
Seamus Ahearne writes in this November of death; war, accident, murder; “the news is rotten with criminality; with stabbings; with shootings; with gangland outrages……….I think the culture of faith has to be rediscovered……However, every day is a privileged day. Every day is full of life, despite the dying. Every day is full of surprises. Every day throws around those ‘rumours of angels.’”