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Cormac MacConnell: Expect titters at antics of novice ministers

Cormac MacConnell: Expect titters at antics of novice ministers

I will be heavily criticised by some of you for retailing this yarn, but I don’t care at all, because I enjoyed hearing it and, anyway, in Rising season, it is topical as well.

Thu, 19 May, 2016

Bangor Abbey lit up a Celtic Christianity that differed from today’s Catholicism

Bangor Abbey lit up a Celtic Christianity that differed from today’s Catholicism

A letter by Fr Tom Kelleher (Irish Examiner, November 16) on the extensive influence of Saints Columbanus (Columban) and Gall (Gallen) was brought out for many to contemplate.

Sat, 12 Dec, 2015

Priests pressure hierarchy to discuss restoring Ireland's ‘silenced’ clerics to full ministry

Priests pressure hierarchy to discuss restoring Ireland's ‘silenced’ clerics to full ministry

Church leaders are to discuss a resolution from a group representing over 1,000 priests to restore Ireland’s ‘silenced’ clerics to full ministry.

Mon, 07 Dec, 2015

We should honour St Columban’s inspiring mission through Europe

I call your attention to St Columban, a Leinster man who with some others left their monastery at Bangor, Co. Antrim to bring their faith to some then dark places in Europe. The 1,400th anniversary of his death is November 23.

Mon, 16 Nov, 2015

Priest abducted in Philippines

An Irish priest was kidnapped by an armed gang in the Philippines tonight.

Sun, 11 Oct, 2009