May they rest in peace
May they rest in peaceNovember is the traditional month to remember and pray for the dead. Here we publish the names of priests who have died over the last 12 months in remembrance,thanksgiving and...
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New vision needed for Catholic education
New vision needed for Catholic educationbyMichael KellyNovember 19, 2015Catholic schools are being asked to rise to the challenge writes Michael KellyFr Niall Coll during his speech at the...
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Taking Pope Francis to the classroom
Taking Pope Francis to the classroombyCathal BarryNovember 19, 2015Cathal Barry speaks to a student teacher about using papal encyclicals in lesson plansStudent teachers introduce the Laudato Si tree.A...
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We need Pope Francis to lead us on climate change
We need Pope Francis to lead us on climate changeAhead of a key world summit on climate change, Fr Martin Magill appeals to the Pontiff for courageous leadershipFr Martin MagillDear Pope...
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Crossing the threshold of mercy
Crossing the threshold of mercyPreparations for the upcoming Year of Mercy are well under way in many Irish dioceses, writes Cathal Barry, Mags Gargan and Greg DalyA visitor takes a photo on his phone...
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‘It’s God’s will for us to live in peace’
‘It’s God’s will for us to live in peace’byMartin O’BrienDecember 3, 2015Fr Gerry Reynolds CSsR, tireless peacemaker, ecumenist and visionary died on November 30 after a short illness. Here we...
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True blue
True bluebyCathal BarryDecember 3, 2015Cathal Barry talks family, faith and football with former Dublin GAA star Ger BrennanGer Brennan.Ger Brennan doesn’t come across quite so formidable over a...
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Create, gather and share
Create, gather and sharebyCathal BarryDecember 3, 2015Cathal Barry speaks to iCatholic founder Fr Bill Kemmy and presenter Wendy Grace about the innovating online projectAn iCatholic panel discussion...
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Can you provide a present for the future?
Can you provide a present for the future?Fr Brendan Collins of Long Tower Parish in Derry shares his experience of a trip to Tanzania with Children in CrossfireFr Brendan Collins with Richard Moore, of...
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Kicking to touch
Kicking to touchbyCathal BarryDecember 10, 2015Rugby legend Ollie Campbell speaks to Cathal Barry about life, faith and the futureOllie Campbell in action for Ireland.They don’t make ‘em like Ollie...
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Beating the odds
Beating the oddsbyCathal BarryDecember 10, 2015Bookies’ nemesis Barney Curley speaks to Cathal Barry about how his faith inspired his philanthropyBarney Curley being presented with the Oireachtas Human...
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In the name of God…
In the name of God…byGreg DalyDecember 17, 2015Greg Daly explores the extent to which the Rising was a Catholic rebellionPoster portrait of Éamonn Ceannt, a devout Catholic who received a personal...
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As seen by The Irish Catholic…
As seen by The Irish Catholic…byMags GarganDecember 17, 2015Mags Gargan describes how this newspaper reported on the Rising in the weeks after the insurgencyThe destruction on Middle Abbey Street near...
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A divided hierarchy
A divided hierarchybyGreg DalyDecember 17, 2015The Church’s attitude to the Rising was far more complex than newspaper reports suggested at the time, Greg Daly discoversPrisoners at Bachelors Walk en...
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A golden year
A golden yearbyGreg DalyDecember 17, 2015Greg Daly considers aspects of how the Rising was commemorated on its 50th anniversaryFar from being a triumphalist affair, glorifying in the Rising’s heroism...
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The last surviving child of a 1916 leader
The last surviving child of a 1916 leaderbyMags GarganDecember 17, 2015Mags Gargan looks at the life of Fr Joseph Mallin SJFr Joseph Mallin at a wreath-laying ceremony in Kilmainham Jail in 2006 with...
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Ministers of mercy
Ministers of mercybyGreg DalyDecember 17, 2015Fr Bryan Shortall tells Greg Daly about the Capuchin experience during the RisingFr Aloysius Travers (fi fth from the right) at the funeral of the Irish...
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The reawakening of a nation
The reawakening of a nationArtist’s impression by Walter Paget of the situation in the GPO late on the Friday of Easter Week after shell fi re set the roof ablaze.The bare bones of the 1916 story can...
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Dublin diocese under siege of bullets and flames during the Rising
Dublin diocese under siege of bullets and flames during the RisingThe Dublin diocesan archives offer a fascinating insight into the Easter Rising, writes Noelle DowlingWounded rebels in a temporary...
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The Rising’s Capuchins… in their own words
The Rising’s Capuchins… in their own wordsFr Albert Bibby and Fr Dominic O'Connor on Church Street, Dublin in 1921.“There was no joking, not even the semblance of it. Poor Colbert was far too beautiful...
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