COMMENT In a tribute to the late John O’Donohue, Kevin Hegarty looks back on his friend’s college days
‘Great Stuff’
Second Reading
The first artist to broadcast Achill’s beauty
COMMENT Alexander Williams, the first artist to make Achill well known, died 90 years ago this month
Weaving cloth, community and Christianity
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the life of Agnes Morrogh Bernard, who founded Foxford Woollen Mills in 1892
Heroism in Auschwitz
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Saint Maximilian Kolbe, murdered at Auschwitz in 1941 after volunteering to die in place of another
The suffering of innocents in war
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty looks back on the tragic sinking of the SS Arandora Star off the Donegal coast in 1940
The environmental imperative
OPINION ‘Care for the environment is the existential moral challenge of our time’, writes Fr Kevin Hegarty
Provocative, engaging and generous
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty pays tribute to moral theologian Fr Enda McDonagh on his 90th birthday
Giving while living
COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on Chuck Feeney, the US billionaire who has given away his fortune
A steadfast decrier of slavery
COMMENT Daniel O’Connell helped end slavery in the British Empire and campaigned for its abolition in the United States
The kindness of James Hack Tuke
COMMENT Kevin Hegarty looks back on the philanthropy of James Hack Tuke during the Irish Famine
Irish Catholic Church should take heed of Australian report
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on an Australian report on the Church’s failure protect children from abuse and its recommendations for improved governance