Edmond Grace SJ responds to a bereaved person on the issue of praying for the dead.
A brief note on the Sacrament of Reconciliation. It is a celebration of the forgiveness of God, and it helps us to put the the past behind us and go forward in optimism.
David Birchall SJ answers an inquiring parent about the sacrament of confirmation.
Edmond Grace SJ sheds some light on the questions about death from a grieving spouse.
Jim Corkery SJ provides some consoling thoughts to a person wracked by doubts about the existence of God.
Edmond Grace SJ responds to a question about the confusions in the Gospels and why sometimes the stories in them seem to be telling different things.
Jim Corkery SJ provides some clarification on the inquiry about God’s plan in our lives and why sometimes things just go wrong.
Dermot O’Brien wrote this book of haikus while staying in a monastery in Wexford. The haikus capture ‘moments of awareness’ — moments of grace which act as a pointer to God. Below is a selection of the haikus taken from various chapters of the book.
Edmond Grace SJ explains the reasons for the different emphasis on the ten commandments in the Chatholic and Church of Ireland traditions.
Edmond Grace SJ gives an answer to why is it that we make our prayers ‘through Jesus Christ’ and what does it mean to be ‘in Him’.
Jim Corkery SJ discusses the questions about limbo.
Finbarr Clancy SJ answers the question about why is it important to go to mass.
Edmond Grace SJ provides some reasons for using music during the Mass to a parishioner, who finds music in the church a little irritating.
Fr Bernard responds to a grandparent who is upset at seeing the lack of religious values being trasmitted to her grandchildren.
Edmond Grace SJ responds to a question about calling priests ‘Father’, when and how did it come about.
Edmond Grace SJ answers concerned grandparents about the baptism of their grandchild.
Edmond Grace SJ clarifies some issues on the sacrament of reconciliation and explains the reasons for personal celebration of this sacrament.
Edmond Grace SJ answers to a parishioner who was upset by a ‘continuous’ preaching of the priest during the Mass.
Etty Hillesum was a vibrant young Jewish woman who lived in Nazi occupied Amsterdam in the early 1940s and died ad Auschwitz in 1943. In the months before she was arrested she underwent a profound transformation through psychotherapy. She refused to give into hate and in this way overcame the [...]
On 24 March 1980, Archbishop Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. He was the most high-profile victim of El Salvador’s civil war between powerful landowners and the dispossessed.
Joe Aston, fisherman and sailor, tells what inspires him to be a believer.
Tony Bolger tells a story about his father-in-law that encouraged his faith.
Rob Clarke was born in 1956 in Wellington, New Zealand, the third eldest in a family of nine children. From an early age, I felt occasional stirrings towards God, but as I grew older, my life became filled by many competing interests – girls, alcohol, sport – and Mass ceased to [...]
Dr. Stephen J. Costello, philosopher, describes himself as a seeker, searching for God within the Catholic tradition. He explains his optic
Michael Prior CM argues that to be opposed to exclusivist, oppressive, imperialistic Zionism is not to be antisemitic but to be in favour of making a better moral future for all the peoples in the troubled region of the Holy Land.
Edel Reynolds, teacher, tells how she sees God working in her life.
Patricia Higgins belongs to Slí-Eile Volunteering. She says: “I attended the funeral some years ago of the brother of a friend from college, who had committed suicide. It was a really tragic occasion, and I was disturbed more than comforted by the funeral Mass. The repeated references to praying for those [...]
Users of the Prayer Request page of this website will have noted the debt we owe to the Benedictines in Rostrevor, Co. Down. These five monks, from the Benedictine Congregation of Saint Mary Monte-Oliveto, have taken it upon themselves to pray for the intentions of those who submit prayer requests [...]
Journalist Miriam O’Donohoe recalls her time in China and how it strengthened her Catholic faith.
Pilgrim, mystic, carer of lepers, civil war victim: Charles Moore tells story of the extraordinary life in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) of Catholic convert, John Bradburne.