Second Reading

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville’s visit to Ireland, and the parish of Burrishoole, in 1835

COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on the restorative, healing and well-being benefits of regularly spending time in nature and a natural environment

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on how fulfilment cannot be found in material things, and the joy of giving away wealth

COMMENT Blacksod lighthouse keeper Ted Sweeney’s weather forecast was crucial for the D-Day scheduling

OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty on Buzz Aldrin’s specifically Christian thanksgiving ceremony on the Moon

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on how Mount Melleray, the famous Cistercian abbey, was almost built on the Erris Peninsula

OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty on new research that shows that women held positions of leadership in the early Church

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty remembers the generosity and courageousness of Sr Maura Clarke, murdered in Nicaragua

COMMENT The recent publication of Ann Frank’s full diary prompts Kevin Hegarty to look back at her story

OPINION The concept of a vengeful, wrathful God does not chime with the New Testament’s portrayal of a loving, forgiving God