COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the importance of November in the Christian calendar
A month for remembering
Second Reading
Francis survey revealing
COMMENT Indifference trumps anger about abuse as reason for not attending papal visit, Queens University survey reveals
When theocracy met modernity
OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty on the rise and fall of the present model of Irish Catholicism
Sermons should not throw stones
OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty on the importance of compassion, sincerity and brevity when writing a Mass sermon
The elephant in the sacristy
‘The present model of Irish Catholicism, which reached its zenith in the 1950s, is collapsing’, writes Kevin Hegarty
Rector’s revelations a window onto Westport’s past
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the life of Westport’s Rev Canon James Owen Hannay, AKA author George A Birmingham
Letters from Robben Island
OPINION Nelson Mandela’s authentic voice emerges in his prison letters, published to mark the centenary of his birth
Daniel in the den of lions
COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on the life and achievements of The Liberator, Daniel O’Connell
The west as muse
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on how the west of Ireland landscape has long been a source of inspiration for artists and writers
The life and times of Columbanus
COMMENT After Pope Francis and Leo Varadkar recently referenced the saint, Kevin Hegarty looks at his life
Magdalene laundries and broken lives
OPINION Following the formal recognition of Magdalene Laundries inmates, Fr Hegarty revisits the injustices they endured