Second Reading

The current refugee crisis prompts Fr Kevin Hegarty to draw parallels with the persecution of the Huguenots

‘As a teenager I was turned off saints. The holy pictures of my childhood depressed me,’ writes Fr Kevin Hegarty

Fr Kevin Hegarty looks back at the life of suffragette, socialist and republican Kathleen Lynn, born in Mayo in 1874

Fr Kevin Hegarty bids a fond farewell to Belmullet’s Noel Reilly, ‘a man with a deep affinity for his people and native place’

‘The response of church leaders to the crisis has been a combination of lethargy and pious optimism that the tide will turn’

Fr Kevin Hegarty on last month’s Limerick conference attended by international reform leaders in the Catholic Church

Fr Kevin Hegarty argues that one nun’s response to the refugee crisis in the US could be emulated in Europe

The Government needs to act now on Senate reform, writes Fr Kevin Hegarty

Fr Kevin Hegarty looks at the stained-glass works of Harry Clarke, their legacy to the art world and their presence in Mayo

Fr Kevin Hegarty writes about an exhibition that is a telling reminder of Erris’s unique cultural history