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Young men living on the edge

SOME months ago, I did a number of Living Word reflections on RTÉ Radio One.  more >

Lessons from Louth

IN A different life I was chairman of a GAA club.  more >

Maybe we need to get out more

BY THE time you read this the World Cup will be over. Thank God for small mercies. In all, wasn’t it as predictably boring as ever?  more >

Partnership bill is a civil issue

AFTER all the excitement of the Stag hunting vote in the Dáil, when the government for a time seemed in danger of collapse and when, after threats and counter-threats, deputies from two parties lost ‘the whip’, the passage of the Civil Partnership Bill a few days later seemed a most civilized affair indeed.  more >

A visit from the Queen

IN THE recent push against Enda Kenny as leader of Fine Gael, an unnamed backbencher was quoted as describing the struggle as a conflict between the cappuccino brigade and those who eat their dinner in the middle of the day.  more >

It’s the Mass that matters

FEWER Catholics attend Mass regularly now.  more >

Age of Discontent is upon us

YOU’D imagine that it would be the other way round. But it’s a strange fact of life that the more we have, the more we complain. The better the services, the more criticism there seems to be.  more >

The road from Rome

THE Pope has announced that an ‘apostolic visitation’ will take place in the autumn.  more >

Raising the siege a year later

IT was, Queen Elizabeth II, I think, who popularised the Latin tag annus horribilis after a difficult year during which one of her children divorced and a favoured castle was burned to the ground.  more >

Should Croke Park become the Harvey Norman stadium?

IN THE glory days of the Celtic Tiger, everything seemed possible.  more >

God could do it, if we let him

WHAT was remarkable about Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s recent speech in Dublin was not what was said but who said it.  more >

The life and death of Gerry Ryan

I’VE a confession to make. I just couldn’t take Gerry Ryan.  more >

To baptise or not to baptise?

A parishioner called recently and presented me with a stark question: In the present circumstances give me a reason for baptising my child?  more >

The theologian and the Pope

THIRTY years ago my first article in the Western People, on January 23, 1980, was entitled Theologians and the Pope.  more >

Priesting in a new world

A RELIC of the Curé (parish priest) of Ars is coming to Knock.  more >

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