OPINION Nurturing children’s sense of wonder about the earth’s beauty will help insulate them from disenchantment later in life
Keep the windows of wonder wide open
Second Reading
Teetering on the cliff edge
Act now, or watch the annihilation of our planet and its wildlife, writes Kevin Hegarty
Daniel in the den of lions
COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on the life and achievements of The Liberator, Daniel O’Connell
A month for remembering
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the importance of November in the Christian calendar
The life and times of Columbanus
COMMENT After Pope Francis and Leo Varadkar recently referenced the saint, Kevin Hegarty looks at his life
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