Next weekend we will celebrate Mission Sunday. Mission Sunday reminds us each year of our missionaries working in the countries of Africa and Asia and across the world caring for the poor and the marginalised. They need our prayers and support. We think especially of those who work with the victims of war, poverty and…

On Saturday next 9th October the Church will celebrate the feast of Cardinal Newman. John Henry Newman was born in London in on the 21st February,1801. He was the eldest of six children, three boys and three girls. His father was a banker and Newman was educated locally before entering Trinity College, Oxford. A brilliant…

In these times of climate change and global warming, many people are becoming interested in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi whose feast day is on the 4th October. Our present Pope Francis dedicated his papacy to Francis of Assisi.  The Pope once remarked: “Some people want to know why I wished to be…

Christ came among us to bring salvation and freedom to our world and to our lives. He lived among us for thirty-three years. His public ministry lasted only three of those years. He had a vision and a dream for humanity. He summed up his vision in one short sentence, ‘what I command you is…

It began in the most unlikely of places: with a teenager refusing  to go to school. But over the last three years, a remarkable wave  of climate activism has spread across the globe, inspired by the  Swedish teenage, Greta Thunberg, who caught the imagination  of teenagers around the world, including here in Ireland.

Their…