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O’Flaherty – WWII Irish Priest Hero – ‘Pimpernel of the Vatican’
In Killarney National Park stands a grove of trees planted in 1994 to commemorate one of the town’s most courageous sons. Hugh O’Flaherty’s exploits during the Second World War earned him several commendations and resulted in two books and a movie portraying his life. Yet, fifty years after his death, he is still relatively unknown […]
‘Great Adventure of the Spirit’
Dorothy Day writes of the final days of Blessed Pope John XXIII fifty years ago… An excerpt from the Catholic Worker of June-July 1963 – reprinted with permission Monday, June third, I landed from the Vulcania Italian Line Ship at 45th Street, New York, at eight o’clock in the morning to find many of my […]
God’s Traveller – Blessed Pope John XXIII (1881 – 1963)
Today, Pope John XXIII is mostly remembered as the instigator of Vatican II. His sometimes controversial “new Pentecost” tells us little of the man behind the reforms he brought about. Yet there’s so much more to tell of this extraordinary man. He was born Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli on a cold, wet November day in 1881 […]
Friday 26 April
St Mark, Evangelist 1 Peter 5:5-14, Ps 89, Mark 16:15-20 Grasp the power Mark’s gospel is the simplest and most powerful of the synoptic gospels. Anyone who reads it from cover to cover cannot do anything but grasp the sheer power of Jesus, son of God. Mark was with Paul and Barnabas, but abandoned them […]
Little Company of Mary celebrates Centenary of the death of Foundress
Tribute to Venerable Mary Potter by Sr Mary Scanlon LCM In the early evening of 9th April 1913, Mary Potter, founder of the Little Company of Mary, died at Calvary, Rome. It was not an uncommon dying. There was no struggle, no agony. According to eye witnesses, “she gave a small cry and went to […]
The Holy Face of Manoppello
A friend and I recently made a two and a half hour journey from Rome in the direction of Italy’s Adriatic coast, to a small hilltown in the Abruzzo region, called Manoppello. What drew us there is a shrine which is home to a 24cm x 17.5cm cloth which bears an image of the face […]
THE CHURCH’S SITUATION IN CHINA: Wonderful, Difficult, And … Possible
Extracts from the homily preached by the Bishop of Hong Kong, John Cardinal Tong Hon, on the occasion of his installation in his parish in Rome, Mary, Queen of the Apostles, on the Third Sunday of Easter, April 22, 2012. (He was created a cardinal in the consistory of February 18, 2012.) “Today’s Gospel tells […]
December
The Colin Year launches in Rome The Superior General of the Society of Mary, Fr John Hannan SM, marked the inauguration of the Colin Year on On Thursday, 15 November, by lighting a lamp before the icon of the founder of the Society of Mary, Fr Jean Claude Colin, in the General House chapel. November […]
Monday 21 May
Seventh Week of Easter Acts 19:1-8, Ps 68, John 16:29-33 The spirit is my guide Paul journeyed to Antioch, Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome. He travelled far, often in perilous conditions. Paul responded to God’s call; to the call of Christian communities; to the call of the pagans; and to the call of his heart. He […]
Sunday 26 February
1st Sunday in Lent Genesis 9: 8-15; Psalm 25; 1 Peter 3: 18-22; Mark 1: 12-15 Coping with suffering St Peter is writing from Rome to the new Christians in Asia Minor (Turkey) who are suffering unjustly at the hands of their pagan neighbours, calumny, ridicule, abuse, because of the name of Christ. He indicates […]
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