‘The response of church leaders to the crisis has been a combination of lethargy and pious optimism that the tide will turn’
Second Reading
Refugee crisis needs a Christian and caring solution
Fr Kevin Hegarty argues that one nun’s response to the refugee crisis in the US could be emulated in Europe
Time for Senate reform is now
The Government needs to act now on Senate reform, writes Fr Kevin Hegarty
Mayo’s Harry Clarke treasures
Fr Kevin Hegarty looks at the stained-glass works of Harry Clarke, their legacy to the art world and their presence in Mayo
Remembering TH White with ‘The Godstone and the Blackymor’ exhibition
Fr Kevin Hegarty writes about an exhibition that is a telling reminder of Erris’s unique cultural history
Looking to the saints we see reflections of humanity
‘As a teenager I was turned off saints. The holy pictures of my childhood depressed me,’ writes Fr Kevin Hegarty
Memories of an inspiring and courageous clergyman
Fr Kevin Hegarty looks back on the life and times of inspiring clergyman Canon Michael James Kilgallen
A tribute to Noel Reilly
Fr Kevin Hegarty bids a fond farewell to Belmullet’s Noel Reilly, ‘a man with a deep affinity for his people and native place’
Jackie Monaghan served the call of courage and love
Fr Kevin Hegarty pays tribute to an inspirational Belmullet mother who sadly passed away, aged just 33 years
Winds of change whistling through the Vatican
Fr Kevin Hegarty on last month’s Limerick conference attended by international reform leaders in the Catholic Church
The past is a foreign country, thankfully
In early independent Ireland, Conservative nationalism and Catholicism colluded in creating the ethos of the new state