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Bertie era blurred fiction with fact

REFLECTING on the difficulties in writing a biography of any important public figure, the writer, Russell Braddon, observed shrewdly that real people in real life ignore the demands of narrative and plot in a way that no novelist would tolerate in any fictitious character.  more >

‘Nothing to be frightened of’

JULIAN Barnes is English, a novelist and a non-believer. And curiously he’s obsessed with death. In his new book, Nothing to be Frightened of, he writes that he has suffered from ‘death awareness’ since he was 13 or 14.  more >

Nuala Ó Faoláin and dealing with death

FROM time to time ‘events’ take place that tend to stop us in our tracks and stay with us as they gel into bits of wisdom that we pack away at the back of our minds. Marian Finucane’s recent interview with Nuala Ó Faoláin on RTE Radio One is one such event.  more >

Reconfiguring priesthood for a new age

IN A recent interview on RTE Radio, Peter Sutherland, the chairman of British Petroleum and an internationally respected expert on business and world affairs, was asked why the Irish - a small island on the periphery of Europe --seemed to punch above their weight.  more >

History will be kind to Ahern

MAKE no mistake about it, every Irish citizen owes a debt of gratitude to Bertie Ahern.  more >

Sport on Sundays

On Easter Sunday morning last every under-14 GAA boys’ team in Sligo played a competitive match at 11 o’clock in the morning.  more >

Believing in God but not going to Mass

WE imagine that we’ve changed. We’re different now, we tell ourselves. All this prosperity has transformed us into different people. We’re not the way we were.  more >

Good Friday mood

SOME years ago a woman giving birth in an Irish hospital spied a crucifix on the wall. She asked that it be removed on the grounds that it was difficult enough to give birth without having a man nailed to a cross looking down on her. She had no faith, no sense of the culture of Catholicism, no vocabulary of belief, no idea what the crucifix meant.  more >

A parable for our time

For 150 years the Presentation Brothers ran a highly successful school in Glastule in Dublin. Some years ago, due to declining numbers, the school was closed - with the agreement of the Department of Education.  more >

Religion is about public good, as well as private need

COULD it possibly be true that Gardaí were instructed that getting ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday was no longer acceptable?  more >

The cardinal and the archbishop

THE Catholic Church has been compared to a huge ocean-going liner maintaining a steady course through the centuries.  more >

SUVs and other toys

THERE’S a controversy going on at present about SUVs. For those not well-versed in the details of the motor industry - or who may have spent the last decade on another planet - SUVs are Sport Utility Vehicles.  more >

In a Berkshire cemetery

LAST week, in the shadows of a Reading cemetery, in the heart of Berkshire, England, as the shades of winter lingered, there were intimations of the miracle of another Spring.  more >

When piety disguises selfishness

ONE OF the saddest groups of people now are Catholic parents who did everything they could to raise their children in the faith and now find that their own flesh and blood have left it behind them.  more >

Big day for Achonry diocese

IT was a great occasion. Improbably at the tail-end of January, even the weather smiled benignly as the great and the good gathered in the cathedral in Ballaghaderreen for the ordination of Galway priest, Brendan Kelly, as Bishop of Achonry.  more >



 

 

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