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Thinking Anew – ‘That they may be one’
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 23, 2021, 00:01
The material for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which ends on Monday, was prepared by the Monastic Community of Grandchamp in Switzer(...)

Catholic cross purge deepens Spain’s culture war
- Europe
- January 22, 2021, 18:00
On January 19th, in the southern town of Aguilar de la Frontera, a workman with an electric saw cut into the base of a tall stone cross outside a conv(...)

‘A matter of great sorrow to us that babies died while under our care’ say nuns
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 12, 2021, 20:46
What happened in the mother and baby homes was “only one chapter in a shocking narrative that has gone on for some time”, the Catholic Archbishop of D(...)

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘The pressure of being the cool parent ends up being too much’
- People
- January 9, 2021, 06:00
The old man rings me and goes, “Kicker, do you have any idea what’s wrong with your mother?” I’m there, “I could work on a list for you over the week(...)

Next archbishop of Dublin would like to see women deacons in Church
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 2, 2021, 01:31
Dublin’s Catholic archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell has said he would like to see women becoming deacons in the Church. He said the biggest barrier to (...)

Catholic Archbishop-elect of Dublin prepares for major reorganisation
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 2, 2021, 01:00
With half of Dublin’s priests over 70 and due to retire within the next five years and congregations ageing and declining, the Archbishop-elect Dermot(...)

Thinking Anew – ‘A light shining in the darkness of the night’
- Religion & Beliefs
- December 26, 2020, 00:01
It just has not felt like Christmas as we know it, with family gatherings restricted and homecomings cancelled. That television advertisement with a (...)

In the bleak midwinter? An Irishman’s Diary on the date of the Nativity
- Opinion
- December 21, 2020, 19:25
The Christmas story has always been impervious to anything as inconvenient of the facts of what actually happened. For millennia biblical scholars hav(...)

Why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th, eat mince pies and put up trees
- Consumer
- December 14, 2020, 00:00
So here it is, merry Christmas everybody’s having fu . . . um, a socially distanced and responsible time in small and sober groups from not more than (...)

Thinking Anew – Our desire for community is instinctive
- Religion & Beliefs
- December 12, 2020, 00:01
Clergy in churches up and down the country worked hard to keep in touch with people during the recent lockdown. Online services and other forms of dis(...)