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A NEW SPIRITUAL INTERVIEW WITH MARIA Bishop Fintan Monahan On Killone Abbey and St John’s Well DAWN PATHWAYS FEATURE STEEN Pilgrims and the The way we do things Inside: The Irish Spirit Black Death Freedom to meet and Dr Louise Nugent on journeys in Church will change special on sacred during times of crisis. protest peacefully are after Covid-19 Page 16 ways Pages 17-24 ...and much more! civil rights Page 7 f L Thursday, June 25, 2020 €2.00 (Stg £1.70) The-Irish-Catholic-Newspaper @IrishCathNews www.irishcatholic.com Archbishop warned Taoiseach of public anger over delay to Masses EXCLUSIVE Michael Kelly The faith behind the mask Two-thirds The Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid report faith Martin warned the Government weeks ‘strengthened’ ago that Catholics were increasingly unhappy and felt they were not being during pandemic listened to about an earlier return to Chai Brady public Masses as churches re-opened in other parts of Europe, The Irish Over two-thirds of Irish Catholic can exclusively reveal. people who took part in In a note to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar a major survey have said on May 7 obtained under the Freedom their personal faith has of Information Act, the archbishop been strengthened during referred to the fact that the Italian the Covid-19 pandemic. government had agreed for public In May, the research Masses to begin after an agreement team at the Mater Dei Cen- with Church leaders there. tre for Catholic Education “There is growing dissatisfac- at Dublin City University, tion in Catholic Church circles about in partnership with York St postponing the generalised opening John University, launched of churches until mid-July, without a nationwide online survey there having been an opportunity for called ‘Coronavirus, Church the Church to present its position,” the & You’. Overall 1,377 adults archbishop wrote. responded. Dr Bernadette Sweet- Discussion man said: “The efforts of Dr Martin warned the Taoiseach the parishes across the country Government’s stance was causing to maintain a sense of par- anger and that “much of the discus- ish community and commu- sion is taking on a rather nasty anti- nal worship online should government tone”. be admired. The findings He said that “this dissatisfaction is suggest those efforts have likely to grow now that an agreement been both appreciated and has been made with the Italian gov- formative in faith.” ernment to permit opening [for Mass], A woman uses hand sanitiser in a sparsely populated Clonard Monastery in Belfast during the annual novena, i See Page 4. » Continued on Page 2 which would normally attract thousands of people to West Belfast to pray. Photo: Mal McCann

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Inside this week Files reveal archbishop’s steady Queue for confession ‘into the streets’ “it’s through confession that Sweet treats Ruadhán Jones we’re re-integrated, as living work for return to public Masses St Saviour’s Church in Dublin members of that Body, and Rhubarb and in the Eucharist we celebrate ocuments obtained by The saw long queues for confes- orange crumble and deepen that life-giving Irish Catholic this week sion as preparation for public relationship. offer something of a glimpse Masses continue, Fr Conor Page 34 “If, in our post-lockdown behind the scenes on the Editor’s Comment McDonough OP has told The pastoral plans, we focus exclu- relationship between the Church and Irish Catholic. Dthe State since Covid-19 restrictions “The attendance has been sively on the celebration of began back in March. Archbishop of Michael Kelly really impressive, with the the Eucharist, we risk leaving Personal profile Dublin Diarmuid Martin has been the (socially distanced!) queue out an important stage in this sometimes stretching well up return. key go-between on behalf archbishop “outlined that on how the Church in other the street,” said Fr McDon- “I’m thinking of the exam- Bosco tills his of the hierarchy. His years there is growing pressure countries was operating in ough. “It’s not just Penney’s ple of Blessed Charles de Fou- in the Vatican’s diplomatic to open churches [for a safe fashion. This included missionary that’s drawing the crowds, the cauld, due to be canonised in service has given him an public worship] earlier than the necessary physical the autumn,” he continued. territory aplomb in presenting his indicated in the roadmap distancing, as well as Lord is drawing many to him- “The effect of experiencing point of view in a lan- and pointed to moves in rigorous hygiene standards. self too.” Page 34 Confessions continued the mercy of Christ in confes- Fr Eugene O’Neill and Paul McCusker from St Patrick’s guage and manner that other countries, particularly Parish planning, he noted, Soup Kitchen accept a cheque and food from Bev throughout lockdown at St sion and union with Christ in speaks to bureaucrats and Italy referring to recent is “well underway” and Patterson, prisoner development unit and Rachel Saviour’s, held in a makeshift Communion was transforma- government officials. guidelines issued there”. included many of the Dinsmore, governor of activities at Hydebank raised by confessional. tive – from that moment Dr Martin emerges as policies that were later the staff and inmates of the facility. Photo: Mal McCann Fr Ron Rolheiser a trusted voice in many of Parish adopted by the hierarchy. “We managed to find a way Charles wanted to give himself the discussions released ❛❛ At no point in any of to hear confessions safely, entirely for God.” Society’s deep under the terms of the planning, he noted, the documents seen by transforming a porch with a Fr McDonough added that Archbishop Diarmuid Prisoners ‘muck-in’ and donate to Belfast soup kitchen Freedom of Information The Irish Catholic was large door onto the street into it was a joy to see the faces of failure in charity Martin. is ‘well underway’ Act. His contributions – there talk of limiting the a confessional, with adequate his congregation and that eve- difficulty when on the streets”. people who have been isolating dur- survive, every effort was Chai Brady particularly on the need and included many number of people at Mass separation between priest and ryone is excited for the return “They wanted to give back and ing the coronavirus pandemic. Page 30 made to ensure family could to care for those bereaved to 50 as was eventually penitent,” said Fr McDonough. to Mass. Staff and inmates at Hydebank Wood it really is wonderful,” he said. The “All these sorts of initiatives really be present. of the policies that during the crisis – show announced by the Taoiseach “The only difficulty has “We’re all immensely College and Women’s Prison have money was raised through a ‘Fit- have given them all a magnificent At the same meeting, a keen sense of the were later adopted at the weekend. That been the loud noise of the Luas excited for the return to given food and raised £500 for a soup ness for Food’ fundraiser to mark purpose. They feel worthwhile. As I’ve the archbishop also voiced World Hunger Day. The young men always said to them, they’re not ever long-term effects of the announcement (shift?) led interrupting the sacrament!” celebrating the Eucharist kitchen in Belfast. Managing Editor: Michael Kelly, [email protected] concerns about healthy by the hierarchy” pandemic, particularly the to a frank statement on Fr McDonough contin- together,” he said. “No shop, and women competed in a variety of the total sum of their actions, there’s Northern Correspondent: residents in nursing homes NI prison chaplain Fr Stephen Martin O’Brien, [email protected] loss of life. It was later that Saturday morning where ued, saying that Confession is of course, offers these people sports including cycling, skiing and much more to them. All in all, it was a living in loneliness and fear. McBrearty said St Patrick’s Church Multimedia Journalists: Chai Brady, [email protected] afternoon that he wrote to Dr Martin described the “immensely important” both this great free gift…Christ in running. great project and I dare say it won’t be Again, the HSE pledged to on Donegall Street, where the soup the last,” he said. Aron Hegarty, [email protected] the Taoiseach requesting a restriction as both “strange for practicing Catholics and the Eucharist, containing in Arrangements work on alleviating this. kitchen is located, was a site that “It goes beyond sectarianism, creed Newsroom: 01 6874026 At an online meeting with meeting between Church and disappointing” given those returning to the Church. himself every pleasure. Residents [email protected] On April 30, returning some of the young male offenders The residents, Fr McBrearty said, have and colour, everybody mucks in for the Department of the leaders and the Government how large many churches “If we’ve separated our- “That’s what has everyone Books Editor: Peter Costello, [email protected] to the issue of funerals Dr and female prisoners would have also been baking for the NHS and everybody, it’s very good. We’re get- Taoiseach on March 30 on to talk about an earlier are. selves from the Body of so excited about getting back Advertising: 01 6874094 Martin raised concerns [email protected] re-opening for Mass. That Dr Martin has shown Christ,” said Fr McDonough, to Mass!” used “when they found themselves in sending flowers from their garden to ting somewhere in these dark days.” funeral arrangements in with the Department of the Accounts: [email protected] 01 6874020 meeting took place a week strong leadership on this the light of restrictions, for Taoiseach about reports of Magnificat: [email protected] later and led to Government issue and deserves much example, he insisted that commercial entities charging officials privately conceding credit for calmly and Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday families need guidelines very high prices for filming that there could be more resolutely putting the case 9.30am–5.30pm so that they know what or transmitting funeral to expect when a loved flexibility in terms of to the State and being Shop: [email protected] Masses. one dies. He also pointed religious ceremonies. a voice for those most Managing Director: The documents reveal Garry O’Sullivan to the need to ensure At the same time, Dr vulnerable in this pandemic the archbishop’s acute Martin distributed to consistency with the for the return to public Annual Subscription Rates: Ireland €145. Airmail €250. Six months – €75. appreciation of the need Government officials some ISSN 1393 - 6832 - Published by The Irish Catholic, approach in the North. Masses as other parts of to put health and public observations he had made 23 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. At a subsequent society began to open up. Printed by Webprint, Cork. safety concerns at the top meeting on April 14, of the agenda. At the same the archbishop was time, it is clear that he had Place an Advert also strong in what no reticence about pointing Taoiseach warned Phone 01 687 4094 or [email protected] he described as the to other countries such as “harshness” of people Germany and Italy where seeing relatives brought Masses had re-commenced to hospital or intensive in a safe and physically- of anger over delay care units and “then never distant way. » Continued from Page 1 to Mass. seeing them again”. At a meeting on May Later that same day May This elicited a 7 – the same day he sent a under clear conditions, next 14, an online meeting took week”. response from the Health note to the Taoiseach about place including the Taoiseach The archbishop urged Service Executive (HSE) growing dissatisfactions and his officials, Dr Martin, confirming that when a among Catholics – the the Taoiseach to meet with Archbishop Eamon Martin patient was unlikely to minutes record that the Church leaders to hear the concerns of Mass-goers and of Armagh and Archbishop “to allow the Catholic Church Kieran O’Reilly of Cashel and to feel that its arguments have Emly. LET'S WORK FOR A BETTER SOCIETY FOR v Capuchin Day Care Centre v been respectfully listened to, OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. rather than allow the question Appreciation 29 Bow Street, Dublin 7 to move onto the airwaves in An internal government note LEAVE A LEGACY FOR LIFE. a non-productive way”. on the meeting released to The Irish Catholic said that Support the Pro Life Campaign in your will. Return “the Church leaders expressed The following week, Arch- their appreciation to have an bishop Martin sent another opportunity to share their The Pro Life Campaign promotes pro-life email to officials in the education and defends human life at all stages. thoughts on the re-opening Department of the Taoise- of churches in time. For more info visit www.prolifecampaign.ie ach outlining what Church “They detailed the work Contact us today to order a copy of our Wills leaflet. Every day The Capuchin Day Care Centre provides leaders have done in other that is being done at all levels 600 Meals for people who are homeless and each week countries to provide for a safe to develop a national Church 1000 Food Parcels for those on the poverty threshold. return to public Masses. In this email, he pointed out that plan for the safe re-opening Help Bro. Kevin continue providing “for Catholics, attending Mass of churches and emphasised this caring service. is important for spiritual and it will play its part in apply- mental wellbeing”. ing public health measures to He also outlined how par- ensure the health and safety Pro Life Campaign, Suite 60, Clifton House, Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 Bro.Kevin or Therese 018720770 ish planning is well under- of all concerned,” the note [email protected] | 01 6629275 www.homeless.ie way to ensure a safe return said. 2 | Comment || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | News ||3

Inside this week Files reveal archbishop’s steady Queue for confession ‘into the streets’ “it’s through confession that Sweet treats Ruadhán Jones we’re re-integrated, as living work for return to public Masses St Saviour’s Church in Dublin members of that Body, and Rhubarb and in the Eucharist we celebrate ocuments obtained by The saw long queues for confes- orange crumble and deepen that life-giving Irish Catholic this week sion as preparation for public relationship. offer something of a glimpse Masses continue, Fr Conor Page 34 “If, in our post-lockdown behind the scenes on the Editor’s Comment McDonough OP has told The pastoral plans, we focus exclu- relationship between the Church and Irish Catholic. Dthe State since Covid-19 restrictions “The attendance has been sively on the celebration of began back in March. Archbishop of Michael Kelly really impressive, with the the Eucharist, we risk leaving Personal profile Dublin Diarmuid Martin has been the (socially distanced!) queue out an important stage in this sometimes stretching well up return. key go-between on behalf archbishop “outlined that on how the Church in other the street,” said Fr McDon- “I’m thinking of the exam- Bosco tills his of the hierarchy. His years there is growing pressure countries was operating in ough. “It’s not just Penney’s ple of Blessed Charles de Fou- in the Vatican’s diplomatic to open churches [for a safe fashion. This included missionary that’s drawing the crowds, the cauld, due to be canonised in service has given him an public worship] earlier than the necessary physical the autumn,” he continued. territory aplomb in presenting his indicated in the roadmap distancing, as well as Lord is drawing many to him- “The effect of experiencing point of view in a lan- and pointed to moves in rigorous hygiene standards. self too.” Page 34 Confessions continued the mercy of Christ in confes- Fr Eugene O’Neill and Paul McCusker from St Patrick’s guage and manner that other countries, particularly Parish planning, he noted, Soup Kitchen accept a cheque and food from Bev throughout lockdown at St sion and union with Christ in speaks to bureaucrats and Italy referring to recent is “well underway” and Patterson, prisoner development unit and Rachel Saviour’s, held in a makeshift Communion was transforma- government officials. guidelines issued there”. included many of the Dinsmore, governor of activities at Hydebank raised by confessional. tive – from that moment Dr Martin emerges as policies that were later the staff and inmates of the facility. Photo: Mal McCann Fr Ron Rolheiser a trusted voice in many of Parish adopted by the hierarchy. “We managed to find a way Charles wanted to give himself the discussions released ❛❛ At no point in any of to hear confessions safely, entirely for God.” Society’s deep under the terms of the planning, he noted, the documents seen by transforming a porch with a Fr McDonough added that Archbishop Diarmuid Prisoners ‘muck-in’ and donate to Belfast soup kitchen Freedom of Information The Irish Catholic was large door onto the street into it was a joy to see the faces of failure in charity Martin. is ‘well underway’ Act. His contributions – there talk of limiting the a confessional, with adequate his congregation and that eve- difficulty when on the streets”. people who have been isolating dur- survive, every effort was Chai Brady particularly on the need and included many number of people at Mass separation between priest and ryone is excited for the return “They wanted to give back and ing the coronavirus pandemic. Page 30 made to ensure family could to care for those bereaved to 50 as was eventually penitent,” said Fr McDonough. to Mass. Staff and inmates at Hydebank Wood it really is wonderful,” he said. The “All these sorts of initiatives really be present. of the policies that during the crisis – show announced by the Taoiseach “The only difficulty has “We’re all immensely College and Women’s Prison have money was raised through a ‘Fit- have given them all a magnificent At the same meeting, a keen sense of the were later adopted at the weekend. That been the loud noise of the Luas excited for the return to given food and raised £500 for a soup ness for Food’ fundraiser to mark purpose. They feel worthwhile. As I’ve the archbishop also voiced World Hunger Day. The young men always said to them, they’re not ever long-term effects of the announcement (shift?) led interrupting the sacrament!” celebrating the Eucharist kitchen in Belfast. Managing Editor: Michael Kelly, [email protected] concerns about healthy by the hierarchy” pandemic, particularly the to a frank statement on Fr McDonough contin- together,” he said. “No shop, and women competed in a variety of the total sum of their actions, there’s Northern Correspondent: residents in nursing homes NI prison chaplain Fr Stephen Martin O’Brien, [email protected] loss of life. It was later that Saturday morning where ued, saying that Confession is of course, offers these people sports including cycling, skiing and much more to them. All in all, it was a living in loneliness and fear. McBrearty said St Patrick’s Church Multimedia Journalists: Chai Brady, [email protected] afternoon that he wrote to Dr Martin described the “immensely important” both this great free gift…Christ in running. great project and I dare say it won’t be Again, the HSE pledged to on Donegall Street, where the soup the last,” he said. Aron Hegarty, [email protected] the Taoiseach requesting a restriction as both “strange for practicing Catholics and the Eucharist, containing in Arrangements work on alleviating this. kitchen is located, was a site that “It goes beyond sectarianism, creed Newsroom: 01 6874026 At an online meeting with meeting between Church and disappointing” given those returning to the Church. himself every pleasure. Residents [email protected] On April 30, returning some of the young male offenders The residents, Fr McBrearty said, have and colour, everybody mucks in for the Department of the leaders and the Government how large many churches “If we’ve separated our- “That’s what has everyone Books Editor: Peter Costello, [email protected] to the issue of funerals Dr and female prisoners would have also been baking for the NHS and everybody, it’s very good. We’re get- Taoiseach on March 30 on to talk about an earlier are. selves from the Body of so excited about getting back Advertising: 01 6874094 Martin raised concerns [email protected] re-opening for Mass. That Dr Martin has shown Christ,” said Fr McDonough, to Mass!” used “when they found themselves in sending flowers from their garden to ting somewhere in these dark days.” funeral arrangements in with the Department of the Accounts: [email protected] 01 6874020 meeting took place a week strong leadership on this the light of restrictions, for Taoiseach about reports of Magnificat: [email protected] later and led to Government issue and deserves much example, he insisted that commercial entities charging officials privately conceding credit for calmly and Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday families need guidelines very high prices for filming that there could be more resolutely putting the case 9.30am–5.30pm so that they know what or transmitting funeral to expect when a loved flexibility in terms of to the State and being Shop: [email protected] Masses. one dies. He also pointed religious ceremonies. a voice for those most Managing Director: The documents reveal Garry O’Sullivan to the need to ensure At the same time, Dr vulnerable in this pandemic the archbishop’s acute Martin distributed to consistency with the for the return to public Annual Subscription Rates: Ireland €145. Airmail €250. Six months – €75. appreciation of the need Government officials some ISSN 1393 - 6832 - Published by The Irish Catholic, approach in the North. Masses as other parts of to put health and public observations he had made 23 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. At a subsequent society began to open up. Printed by Webprint, Cork. safety concerns at the top meeting on April 14, of the agenda. At the same the archbishop was time, it is clear that he had Place an Advert also strong in what no reticence about pointing Taoiseach warned Phone 01 687 4094 or [email protected] he described as the to other countries such as “harshness” of people Germany and Italy where seeing relatives brought Masses had re-commenced to hospital or intensive in a safe and physically- of anger over delay care units and “then never distant way. » Continued from Page 1 to Mass. seeing them again”. At a meeting on May Later that same day May This elicited a 7 – the same day he sent a under clear conditions, next 14, an online meeting took week”. response from the Health note to the Taoiseach about place including the Taoiseach The archbishop urged Service Executive (HSE) growing dissatisfactions and his officials, Dr Martin, confirming that when a among Catholics – the the Taoiseach to meet with Archbishop Eamon Martin patient was unlikely to minutes record that the Church leaders to hear the concerns of Mass-goers and of Armagh and Archbishop “to allow the Catholic Church Kieran O’Reilly of Cashel and to feel that its arguments have Emly. LET'S WORK FOR A BETTER SOCIETY FOR v Capuchin Day Care Centre v been respectfully listened to, OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. rather than allow the question Appreciation 29 Bow Street, Dublin 7 to move onto the airwaves in An internal government note LEAVE A LEGACY FOR LIFE. a non-productive way”. on the meeting released to The Irish Catholic said that Support the Pro Life Campaign in your will. Return “the Church leaders expressed The following week, Arch- their appreciation to have an bishop Martin sent another opportunity to share their The Pro Life Campaign promotes pro-life email to officials in the education and defends human life at all stages. thoughts on the re-opening Department of the Taoise- of churches in time. For more info visit www.prolifecampaign.ie ach outlining what Church “They detailed the work Contact us today to order a copy of our Wills leaflet. Every day The Capuchin Day Care Centre provides leaders have done in other that is being done at all levels 600 Meals for people who are homeless and each week countries to provide for a safe to develop a national Church 1000 Food Parcels for those on the poverty threshold. return to public Masses. In this email, he pointed out that plan for the safe re-opening Help Bro. Kevin continue providing “for Catholics, attending Mass of churches and emphasised this caring service. is important for spiritual and it will play its part in apply- mental wellbeing”. ing public health measures to He also outlined how par- ensure the health and safety Pro Life Campaign, Suite 60, Clifton House, Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 Bro.Kevin or Therese 018720770 ish planning is well under- of all concerned,” the note [email protected] | 01 6629275 www.homeless.ie way to ensure a safe return said. 4 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Comment ||5

Achonry consecration to go Major survey reveals Faithful’s ahead on August 30 Is Pope a Green party man? Staff reporter oes the Pope vote for are singing and the skies are The episcopal consecration of the response to virus pandemic a Green party? He empty partly because the the service felt the same as usual pastoral tool and 53% agreed social congregation coped well/very well, new bishop of Achonry, which clearly is supportive aviation industry has collapsed, Chai Brady services. media is a great evangelistic tool. 92% indicated the faith of their con- was postponed due to coronavirus of the Green cause. Mary Kenny at least temporarily – along Half of those surveyed had con- However, 85% disagreed that vir- gregation was either the same as or restrictions, will now go ahead on During the height of the pandemic I was surprised to turn with the jobs of thousands of tact with clergy during lockdown, tual contact was as good as meeting strengthened (38% said strength- onD BBC radio last Monday August 30 a spokesman for the the majority of Irish Catholics have airline workers. mainly by phone (38%) or online face to face. ened). diocese has confirmed. welcomed and engaged with online morning and hear, at the top (36%). Regarding the future of the Bishop-elect Paul Dempsey will Church services, feel their faith has of the news programme, not a The Green been strengthened and believe now The Director of the Mater Dei Efforts Church 63% agreed the lockdown politician talking about the state be ordained bishop in the Cathedral ❛❛ Dr Bernadette Sweetman of Mater of the country, nor a reporter of the Annunciation and St Nathy in there is a “great chance” to re-think Centre for Catholic Education, Dr is a great chance to re-think the question, on a Dei said: “The efforts of parishes analysing the tragic killing in a Ballaghaderreen. the Church’s future, according to Gareth Byrne, said: “It was very Church’s future. The forced closure Reading park, but a ten-minute philosophical level, Fr Dempsey, who has been new research. significant that clergy have found across the country to maintain of churches has focused the faith- address by Pope Francis who serving as parish priest of The study was conducted by the news ways of being in touch pasto- a sense of parish community and ful on proper priorities according is a moral question” Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Edu- rally, not just for the celebration of communal worship online should be to 39% of respondents, while 29% spoke about how we must Newbridge, Co. Kildare said “it is a Our world has had too much cation at Dublin City University, in Masses but also for keeping in con- admired. The findings of this survey disagreed. re-make the world, with more source of joy for me to know that we emphasis on acquisition, but partnership with York St John Uni- tact with parishioners and respond- suggest those efforts have been both Almost half of people said they environmental awareness, after The Church was now have a rescheduled date”. people in poor countries also versity, and 1,377 adults responded. ing to their needs.” appreciated and formative in faith. didn’t believe many people will the lockdown ends. need to trade, to sell their centuries ahead in The online survey ‘Coronavirus, The vast majority of people felt However, the physical gathering and lose faith without church buildings Francis spoke, as he always Patience produce, to feed their families: Church & You’ was launched nation- it was good to see clergy broadcast worshipping in person together is to gather for worship, 26% said they does, about compassion for opposing slavery “I am grateful to Archbishop Jude that is a moral consideration wide, including the North, with 70% services for their churches while largely irreplaceable.” thought this would be the case. the poor, and the need to take Pope Francis. Slavery was legally abolished in the Thaddeus Okolo, Apostolic Nuncio too. of respondents aged 40-60. 67% said they agreed that online Two-thirds of people said their 72% agreed that the lockdown has a new approach to the way we 19th Century in the western world after to Ireland, and to the priests, organise our world after the Our consumption can be It found that 65% accessed worship is a great liturgical tool – faith has been strengthened during helped the Church to move into the must all think more responsibly pastoral words but I also weigh campaigns by conscientious Christians, religious and faithful of the Diocese the pandemic. “The pandemic about caring for the planet, “our up the implications of his their bread and butter. of Achonry for their patience and church services online and 61% said 62% agreed social media is a great the pandemic and 46% said their digital age. but five centuries previously, it had been caused us to reflect on the common home”. He said he message. He’s surely right in The Green question, on a condemned by Pope Eugene IV, in his understanding as we have been relationship between man and backed calls for environmental observing that the slowdown philosophical level, is a moral document Sicut Dudum, issued in January dealing with the unprecedented the environment,” he said. action that have emerged of traffic and frantic consumer question, and Francis is much 1435. consequences of Covid-19 in our What do you think? throughout the globe. activity have benefitted admired throughout the world Ronald Crane, of the Ordinariate on-line country and in our world. Let us know RTÉ hails iCatholic for Pollution Francis said we should nature, and even awakened for stressing it. publication The Portal, has sent me a “I am especially grateful for the by writing to: “The closures reduced pollution consume less and be aware of us to awareness of the beauty But we also have to seek a text from this document. Of the colonists support of Father Dermot Meehan Letters to the Editor, and allowed us to rediscover the how we affect the environment of birdsong, the cleanness of balance between responsibility who enslaved indigenous people in the who has administered the diocese beauty of so many places free of by the habits of obsessive empty skies. for the planet and the jobs that Canary Islands, Eugene wrote: “They have over these challenging weeks and The Irish Catholic, ‘high-quality’ first-time traffic and noise.” consumption. Yet there is a dilemma for depend on ordinary commercial deprived the natives of their property months,” he said. 23 Merrion Square North, Now, as activities resume, we I always listen to the Pope’s reflective Christians. The birds activity, ethically pursued. or turned it to their own use, and have Achonry has been vacant since Dublin 2, subjected some of the inhabitants of said December 2017 when Bishop or email: live Mass broadcast islands to perpetual slavery, sold them Brendan Kelly was transferred to [email protected] to other persons and committed other Galway Diocese. Let Harry be happy, his way various illicit and evil deeds against them.” I wonder if Prince Harry, However, a new biography can occur in any family. sequestered in Los Angeles, of Meghan Markle by the There are men who Venetian ever suffers from bouts royal writer Lady Colin dominate their spouses Pope Eugene (Gabriele Condulmaro, a of home-sickness? Does Campbell portrays Meghan even to the point of physical Venetian who had previously been a Seeking he ever think ruefully as being the dominant bullying or cruel abuse. monk) exhorted that all Christians desist of his family in England, partner in the relationship, And there are women who from such deeds, that they restore the inspiration for or feel nostalgic about a as if Harry’s compliance thoroughly dominate their liberty of “all and each person of either polo-match, or a game of hadn’t much chance against husbands – I’ve known a sex” who have been made subject to your parish cricket, which will now be his wife’s strong personality. few, even in my own family. slavery. “These people are to be totally resuming? Lady Colin says that My mother thought her and perpetually free and are to be let go Surely it is natural to Meghan was warmly brothers were hopelessly without the exaction or reception of any prayer group? everyone to have feelings of welcomed at Windsor, submissive to their money.” attachment to their native but she never wanted ‘domineering’ wives. Yet He then issued an excommunication land? to fit in with Harry’s there’s no telling what order for anyone who promoted the grave Harry has chosen to family – admittedly, there the internal dynamics of sin of slavery and failed to restore family Looking for be where his wife wants were annoying protocol a marriage may be, and if and freedom back to the native people. him to be, and perhaps restrictions. Harry is happy doing as his The principle still holds, wherever slavery is practiced. a way to that is admirably uxorious. Yet similar relationships wife tells him – so be it! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. strengthen your family’s Fr Bill Kemmy of iCatholic.ie (front) and Bishop Denis Nulty pictured on Sunday in spiritual life? Rathangan, Co. Kildare. has been very valuable to us that Kairos has been deliv- BEES ARE VITAL TO Chai Brady during the pandemic crisis. ering liturgies to such a high The Head of Religious Pro- “The difference is it has standard for so long “and gramming in RTÉ has hailed been pre-recorded and not now technology makes this LIFE ON EARTH. Let Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap be your a new initiative which saw necessarily in broadcast more accessible for pariishes guide through the Daily Mass Readings ORDER Mass broadcast live on the quality but it is good enough around the country. Intriguing… with Gospel Re ections and Prayers. station for the first time for people who just want to “I think part of the sig- YET EACH YEAR THEY’RE UNDER EXTREME THREAT without an outside broad- be connected to Mass. nificance is it’s us working in BECAUSE OF HUMAN ACTIVITY. e weekly liturgy is food for the soul, YOUR COPY cast crew. “iCatholic contacted me partnership with churches, delightful… providing optimism and hope. For the first time last to say they thought it was using new technology, to James Morrisey is looking to open people’s eyes to the TODAY Tuesday and again on Sun- possible to deliver broad- deliver quality content to beautiful rough two short re ections on each importance of bees. 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Fr Bill and we’re working together times we’ve had web Kemmy of iCatholic told The to satisfy people,” Mr Childs Gospel Re ections and Prayers is a revised edition streamed content produced Irish Catholic that he was added. of Homily Hints and Prayers (2018) by churchservices.tv, which “delighted” that things went iCatholic will once again AVAILABLE INCLUDING Order your copy by: Phoning 01 6874096 | Visitingwww.currachbooks.com is webcams in churches so well. He said he wanted live-stream Mass for broad- POSTAGE! Posting a cheque to23 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2 01 687 4096 www.columbabooks.com 23 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2 around the country and that to pay tribute to the fact cast on RTÉ on July 5. NOW €. The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Comment ||5 Is Pope a Green party man? oes the Pope vote for are singing and the skies are a Green party? He empty partly because the clearly is supportive aviation industry has collapsed, of the Green cause. Mary Kenny at least temporarily – along I was surprised to turn with the jobs of thousands of onD BBC radio last Monday airline workers. morning and hear, at the top of the news programme, not a The Green politician talking about the state ❛❛ of the country, nor a reporter question, on a analysing the tragic killing in a Reading park, but a ten-minute philosophical level, address by Pope Francis who is a moral question” spoke about how we must re-make the world, with more Our world has had too much environmental awareness, after emphasis on acquisition, but The Church was the lockdown ends. people in poor countries also Francis spoke, as he always need to trade, to sell their centuries ahead in does, about compassion for produce, to feed their families: opposing slavery the poor, and the need to take Pope Francis. that is a moral consideration Slavery was legally abolished in the a new approach to the way we too. 19th Century in the western world after organise our world after the must all think more responsibly pastoral words but I also weigh Our consumption can be campaigns by conscientious Christians, the pandemic. “The pandemic about caring for the planet, “our up the implications of his their bread and butter. but five centuries previously, it had been caused us to reflect on the common home”. He said he message. He’s surely right in The Green question, on a condemned by Pope Eugene IV, in his relationship between man and backed calls for environmental observing that the slowdown philosophical level, is a moral document Sicut Dudum, issued in January the environment,” he said. action that have emerged of traffic and frantic consumer question, and Francis is much 1435. throughout the globe. activity have benefitted admired throughout the world Ronald Crane, of the Ordinariate on-line Pollution Francis said we should nature, and even awakened for stressing it. publication The Portal, has sent me a “The closures reduced pollution consume less and be aware of us to awareness of the beauty But we also have to seek a text from this document. Of the colonists and allowed us to rediscover the how we affect the environment of birdsong, the cleanness of balance between responsibility who enslaved indigenous people in the beauty of so many places free of by the habits of obsessive empty skies. for the planet and the jobs that Canary Islands, Eugene wrote: “They have traffic and noise.” consumption. Yet there is a dilemma for depend on ordinary commercial deprived the natives of their property Now, as activities resume, we I always listen to the Pope’s reflective Christians. The birds activity, ethically pursued. or turned it to their own use, and have subjected some of the inhabitants of said islands to perpetual slavery, sold them to other persons and committed other Let Harry be happy, his way various illicit and evil deeds against them.” I wonder if Prince Harry, However, a new biography can occur in any family. sequestered in Los Angeles, of Meghan Markle by the There are men who Venetian ever suffers from bouts royal writer Lady Colin dominate their spouses Pope Eugene (Gabriele Condulmaro, a of home-sickness? Does Campbell portrays Meghan even to the point of physical Venetian who had previously been a he ever think ruefully as being the dominant bullying or cruel abuse. monk) exhorted that all Christians desist of his family in England, partner in the relationship, And there are women who from such deeds, that they restore the or feel nostalgic about a as if Harry’s compliance thoroughly dominate their liberty of “all and each person of either polo-match, or a game of hadn’t much chance against husbands – I’ve known a sex” who have been made subject to cricket, which will now be his wife’s strong personality. few, even in my own family. slavery. “These people are to be totally resuming? Lady Colin says that My mother thought her and perpetually free and are to be let go Surely it is natural to Meghan was warmly brothers were hopelessly without the exaction or reception of any everyone to have feelings of welcomed at Windsor, submissive to their money.” attachment to their native but she never wanted ‘domineering’ wives. Yet He then issued an excommunication land? to fit in with Harry’s there’s no telling what order for anyone who promoted the grave Harry has chosen to family – admittedly, there the internal dynamics of sin of slavery and failed to restore family be where his wife wants were annoying protocol a marriage may be, and if and freedom back to the native people. him to be, and perhaps restrictions. Harry is happy doing as his The principle still holds, wherever slavery is practiced. that is admirably uxorious. Yet similar relationships wife tells him – so be it! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

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New St Patrick’s pilgrim way Irish bishops pull nearly 80 launched Maria Steen Chai Brady The View A new ‘camino’ style 22km schools from broadband scheme pilgrim walk is being launched in Downpatrick by Ruadhán Jones Sealed with love St Patrick Centre, the only The Irish Bishops have with- permanent exhibition in the drawn 78 schools from the world dedicated to Ireland’s Freedom to assemble peaceably and to protest first phase of the state’s patron saint. National Broadband Plan New pilgrim guides, (NBP) over fears they could Martina Purdy, former BBC be sued, The Irish Catho- peacefully are fundamental democratic rights political correspondent, and lic understands. ith all the thinking for themselves health scandal would former barrister, Elaine Kelly The schools, as well as media attention A pro-life gathering and are buoyed up by each also be banned – pro-life will lead pilgrims along St other buildings such as librar- focusing on outside the National other’s company into action. Catholics praying outside Patrick’s Way, visiting seven ies and GAA clubhouses, were climate change Maternity Hospital in The rights mentioned are hospitals would be targeted locations, from July 1. to act as broadband connec- The pair, who were Ado- targets and pension age, a Hollest Street, Dublin. indeed not unlimited; they specifically. In other words, tion points (BCPs), providing less-discussedW aspect of the are subject to considerations the State would be imposing ration Sisters until their hubs of high-speed broad- recently agreed programme of public order and morality. a disability on Catholics convent grew too small to band for local communities. for government between or others wishing to pray complete their training, have The hubs were to be an Given that the Garda Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and outside these hospitals on scouted a path for pilgrims interim measure while the Commissioner has stated the Green Party is the the basis of their religion. that is steeped in spirituality, infrastructure necessary for that there are no public commitment to legislate The attack on the history and beauty. the NBP was put in place. order issues with the pro- for exclusion zones around fundamental rights of While practising safe According to sources, life vigils, it would seem that hospitals where abortions pro-life protesters is clear social distancing, walkers on issues with the BCPs quickly the new Government will are now being performed. enough. Less obvious, the way will hear about the emerged as it became appar- have to rely on the ‘morality’ This isn’t exactly a perhaps, is the wrong legacy of St Patrick and visit ent that schools would be clause in the Constitution. new idea: Minister for sites such as his first church liable for any damages or exclusion zones would Health, Simon Harris, had at Saul, established in 432AD. injuries sustained on their perpetrate against women already stated that he was How does a premises. ❛❛ contemplating abortion. The committed to bringing in Passport It is understood that the group of people real idea is to insulate them exclusion zones – or no-go Walkers will also be provided Department of Rural and from anything that might areas for pro-life people. gathered outside with a newly designed pilgrim Community Development cause them to question In January of this year, passport, a high-viz jacket (DRCD) identified the 78 a clinic saying their actions, or alert them apparently oblivious to and a pilgrim lunch in The schools and initially dealt to the fact that, were they the irony of his statement, Barn, an inn offering hospi- with them directly. the rosary offend to choose differently, there Harris promised to expand tality in the heart of Patrick’s However, the schools did would be people waiting further the “vital” service against public order Country. Phoenix Natural Gas not own the premises and with open arms to help and of abortion in this country. have kindly agreed to spon- liability would fall back on the or morality?” support them. Responding to reports sor the high-viz jackets which patrons of the schools, which Ultimately, exclusion will include their branding of a pro-life vigil outside The idea that public zones are about excluding in the case of Catholic schools morality could demand and the St Patrick’s Way logo. is the local bishop. the National Maternity choice. When it comes to According to Dr Tim Camp- Hospital in Holles Street, that people should be women who have decided, bell, centre director, “Martina the Minister, with narrowed prevented from peacefully perhaps with hesitation, Insurance Helena Ward and Brian Darcy married in Portlaoise parish church in Co. Laois during the coronavirus pandemic. Msgr praying outside buildings and Elaine will in turn guide As a result, The Irish Catho- eyes, said “how dare you?” on abortion, their choice, pilgrims on the walk of their John Byrne PP was the celebrant. to those taking part in the in which living babies are once chosen, must not to be lic understands, it was the being dismembered is so life – and are delighted to bishop’s responsibility to guarantee that the state concerned about the small accidents and damages would vigil. changed. share their own spiritual jour- Harris accused those at grotesque that it is hard to Their consent, once given, make sure that insurance was accepts the financial risks number of cases taken against increase dramatically. Dioceses asks What does Irish law say Minister. The Government’s offended. The fundamental believe it does not come ney in the steps of Patrick. in place for the scheme. associated with the costs of schools in their capacity as The Catholic patronage the vigil of intimidating and about such matters? Well, extraordinary silence rights of those who had cannot be allowed to be “We are also delighted to from some dystopian The Irish bishops engaged claims. Without this, schools’ polling booths. schools, which have with- TDs to lobby harassing women and their the right to freely express in relation to the recent been keeping vigil outside revoked. announce that BBC presenter fantasy. Yet this is the with the DRCD in a series of insurers believed that there drawn from the scheme will partners as well as staff. one’s opinion, to assemble Black Lives Matter protests clinics and hospitals around We hear a lot of talk from Donna Traynor will join us to relax church country in which we live. meetings and it became clear was a great risk that the still be provided with high- However, footage posted by peaceably and to form in Dublin, despite the the country, to express the likes of Minister Simon and other pilgrims on July 4 Fear Lastly, there is a specific that without a state indem- cases could be taken against They fear that, given that speed broadband for their ‘50-people’ rule a pro-abortion doctor in the associations are rights that apparent contravention the view that babies’ lives Harris about freedom of to launch a second route in hospital showed a group of provision, Article 44 of nity, the scheme could not go the schools involved in the community hubs would see own use rather than acting as are considered so important of public health advice in matter too, would be choice, but how can you Newcastle through Tollymore people assembled peaceably the Constitution, which forward. scheme. increased use outside normal a community internet access Staff reporter in Irish law that they relation to large gatherings, trumped by the rights of the have a free choice when you Forest. outside the hospital, says that the State shall A state indemnity would School insurers are already school hours, the incidence of point. The Diocese of Kerry come under the heading suggests that our leaders very people destroying those don’t know all the options “These walks are totally respect and honour religion. has appealed to TDs in apparently praying, some ‘Fundamental Rights’ in the will acknowledge the open to you? If you are poor inclusive and truly cross- same children. Furthermore, freedom of the county to urge the carrying white crosses. Irish Constitution. importance of the right to and desperate and cannot community appealing to all conscience, and the free Government to relax a There was no evidence A law that would impose protest – provided it is the see a way out, how is your faiths and none,” he said. profession and practice of rule that would permit as that they were trying to exclusion zones would sort of protest to which they It would choice truly free, if removing Garda Horkan’s death a reminder intimidate or harass anyone, ❛❛ religion are, again subject to those obstacles would make few as 50 people to attend offend against all three are sympathetic. seem that the new public order and morality, Mass from June 29. something that Garda of these rights. First, the When it comes to pro- you decide on another Schools defy guaranteed to every citizen. When the Government Commissioner, Drew Harris, right to freely express one’s lifers, however, Harris and Government will course of action? Primate on of gardaí’s bravery – Bishop Leahy has confirmed in relation to How does a group of people As is always the case in announced the accelerated opinion means that even others of his persuasion will have to rely on the gathered outside a clinic academic selection The passing of Garda Colm Horkan experience. I was struck by the like Colm Horkan, integral in our roadmap there was no pro-life vigils generally. if a Government minister try to argue that their very law, fundamental rights saying the rosary offend Two Tyrone Catholic Gram- has been a tragic reminder of the obvious thought of dread that must community.” mention of the limit. thinks you’re ‘wrong’, you presence outside a hospital ‘morality’ clause in are important only when against public order or mar schools have said they heroism and bravery of an Garda cross every Garda’s mind: ‘such a However, at the weekend Consultation are entitled to express your is enough to offend against the Government wants to morality? And how does the will have entrance exams Síochána as they work daily to make thing could happen to me in the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar Branding the individuals wrong-headed ideas. You the rights of those entering the Constitution” deny them to you – when Community idea of an exclusion zone despite the Primate of All- society safer for all, said Bishop course of my daily duty’. Bishop Leahy praised Garda Horkan said that only 50 people “anti-democratic” and are even entitled by law to the building. Ergo, they The right to form the majority is against that would prevent people Ireland calling for schools to Brendan Leahy of Limerick. “[T]here is an unwritten but real as being “a man of community would be permitted in “wrong”, Harris said he was express your view that he should be prevented from associations is also you. The result of the from praying in certain abandon them this year due Speaking following a premise imprinted on their job and of sport, a man of and for his a building – even if the committed to legislating might be the one who is protesting in that area. After fundamental to a democracy. referendum suggests that places “respect and honour to the pandemic. remembrance service outside Henry description – be ready to give your people”. church could comfortably for exclusion zones. Fine wrong. all, they say, the right to It is the mark of a tyrannical the wind is at the back of religion”? St Patrick’s Academy in Street Garda station in Limerick, life for others. No one has a greater He concluded his statement, hold 1,500 people. Gael’s prospective coalition The rights to assemble assemble is not an unlimited regime that it prevents those pushing for exclusion The Constitution also Dungannon and St Joseph’s in Bishop Leahy said an unmistakable love than that. saying that he and the community Archbishop Diarmuid partners seem to agree. peaceably and to protest right. people from meeting and zones. This makes it all the states clearly that the nearby Donaghmore will use sense of the selflessness of Gardai “[A]s Gardaí gathered in Limerick were praying that Garda Horkan Martin described the Last year the Taoiseach, peacefully are fundamental But following that logic associating with other more important that, if the State shall not impose academic selection. permeated the solemn occasion. today, it made me recognise with “is at peace and that his watch rule as “strange and Leo Varadkar, told the Dáil democratic rights, and not through, no one would ever like-minded citizens. That is Government gets its way in any disabilities or make Archbishop Eamon Martin Speaking after the ceremony, renewed admiration and gratitude and protection will continue from disappointing”. that, following consultation in any way ‘anti-democratic’, be able to protest, because the way governments lose legislation, the courts come any discrimination on of the Archdiocese of Armagh, Bishop Leahy said: “It was a moving how these women and men are, just above”. Shane O’Donoghue, the with the Attorney as wrongly described by the someone will always be control: when citizens start to the defence of the pro-life the grounds of religious the diocese in which the two property administrator General, legislating for minority. And to the defence profession. But unless schools are located, wrote a with the Diocese of Kerry, exclusion zones was legally of those women who, if the State were to impose letter to schools urging them If you’re present at a celebration or event in your and part of the team problematic. Indeed, Harris they could see that someone Would you like to The rights to assemble peaceably and to a blanket ban on any not to go ahead with the tests behind the diocese’s himself said that it was not ❛❛ cared, that someone was parish, why not take a photograph and email it to: kind of protest outside for the 2021 academic year. guidelines regarding the straightforward but hinted prepared to offer real help see your parish protest peacefully are fundamental democratic hospitals – in which case The Tyrone schools are the [email protected] resumption of public that they were looking to to them and their baby, that church services told Radio model the law on Britain’s anyone protesting against someone was praying for first in the Catholic sector to photos published in Photos in jpeg format are fine and please do tell us rights, and not in any way ‘anti-democratic’, as reaffirm their commitment to Kerry that he would be recent introduction of the likes of the Cervical them and their baby, might who is in the photo, the occasion and the parish. lobbying TDs for a change. exclusion zones. 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New St Patrick’s pilgrim way Irish bishops pull nearly 80 launched Maria Steen Chai Brady The View A new ‘camino’ style 22km schools from broadband scheme pilgrim walk is being launched in Downpatrick by Ruadhán Jones Sealed with love St Patrick Centre, the only The Irish Bishops have with- permanent exhibition in the drawn 78 schools from the world dedicated to Ireland’s Freedom to assemble peaceably and to protest first phase of the state’s patron saint. National Broadband Plan New pilgrim guides, (NBP) over fears they could Martina Purdy, former BBC be sued, The Irish Catho- peacefully are fundamental democratic rights political correspondent, and lic understands. ith all the thinking for themselves health scandal would former barrister, Elaine Kelly The schools, as well as media attention A pro-life gathering and are buoyed up by each also be banned – pro-life will lead pilgrims along St other buildings such as librar- focusing on outside the National other’s company into action. Catholics praying outside Patrick’s Way, visiting seven ies and GAA clubhouses, were climate change Maternity Hospital in The rights mentioned are hospitals would be targeted locations, from July 1. to act as broadband connec- The pair, who were Ado- targets and pension age, a Hollest Street, Dublin. indeed not unlimited; they specifically. In other words, tion points (BCPs), providing less-discussedW aspect of the are subject to considerations the State would be imposing ration Sisters until their hubs of high-speed broad- recently agreed programme of public order and morality. a disability on Catholics convent grew too small to band for local communities. for government between or others wishing to pray complete their training, have The hubs were to be an Given that the Garda Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and outside these hospitals on scouted a path for pilgrims interim measure while the Commissioner has stated the Green Party is the the basis of their religion. that is steeped in spirituality, infrastructure necessary for that there are no public commitment to legislate The attack on the history and beauty. the NBP was put in place. order issues with the pro- for exclusion zones around fundamental rights of While practising safe According to sources, life vigils, it would seem that hospitals where abortions pro-life protesters is clear social distancing, walkers on issues with the BCPs quickly the new Government will are now being performed. enough. Less obvious, the way will hear about the emerged as it became appar- have to rely on the ‘morality’ This isn’t exactly a perhaps, is the wrong legacy of St Patrick and visit ent that schools would be clause in the Constitution. new idea: Minister for sites such as his first church liable for any damages or exclusion zones would Health, Simon Harris, had at Saul, established in 432AD. injuries sustained on their perpetrate against women already stated that he was How does a premises. ❛❛ contemplating abortion. The committed to bringing in Passport It is understood that the group of people real idea is to insulate them exclusion zones – or no-go Walkers will also be provided Department of Rural and from anything that might areas for pro-life people. gathered outside with a newly designed pilgrim Community Development cause them to question In January of this year, passport, a high-viz jacket (DRCD) identified the 78 a clinic saying their actions, or alert them apparently oblivious to and a pilgrim lunch in The schools and initially dealt to the fact that, were they the irony of his statement, Barn, an inn offering hospi- with them directly. the rosary offend to choose differently, there Harris promised to expand tality in the heart of Patrick’s However, the schools did would be people waiting further the “vital” service against public order Country. Phoenix Natural Gas not own the premises and with open arms to help and of abortion in this country. have kindly agreed to spon- liability would fall back on the or morality?” support them. Responding to reports sor the high-viz jackets which patrons of the schools, which Ultimately, exclusion will include their branding of a pro-life vigil outside The idea that public zones are about excluding in the case of Catholic schools morality could demand and the St Patrick’s Way logo. is the local bishop. the National Maternity choice. When it comes to According to Dr Tim Camp- Hospital in Holles Street, that people should be women who have decided, bell, centre director, “Martina the Minister, with narrowed prevented from peacefully perhaps with hesitation, Insurance Helena Ward and Brian Darcy married in Portlaoise parish church in Co. Laois during the coronavirus pandemic. Msgr praying outside buildings and Elaine will in turn guide As a result, The Irish Catho- eyes, said “how dare you?” on abortion, their choice, pilgrims on the walk of their John Byrne PP was the celebrant. to those taking part in the in which living babies are once chosen, must not to be lic understands, it was the being dismembered is so life – and are delighted to bishop’s responsibility to guarantee that the state concerned about the small accidents and damages would vigil. changed. share their own spiritual jour- Harris accused those at grotesque that it is hard to Their consent, once given, make sure that insurance was accepts the financial risks number of cases taken against increase dramatically. Dioceses asks What does Irish law say Minister. The Government’s offended. The fundamental believe it does not come ney in the steps of Patrick. in place for the scheme. associated with the costs of schools in their capacity as The Catholic patronage the vigil of intimidating and about such matters? Well, extraordinary silence rights of those who had cannot be allowed to be “We are also delighted to from some dystopian The Irish bishops engaged claims. Without this, schools’ polling booths. schools, which have with- TDs to lobby harassing women and their the right to freely express in relation to the recent been keeping vigil outside revoked. announce that BBC presenter fantasy. Yet this is the with the DRCD in a series of insurers believed that there drawn from the scheme will partners as well as staff. one’s opinion, to assemble Black Lives Matter protests clinics and hospitals around We hear a lot of talk from Donna Traynor will join us to relax church country in which we live. meetings and it became clear was a great risk that the still be provided with high- However, footage posted by peaceably and to form in Dublin, despite the the country, to express the likes of Minister Simon and other pilgrims on July 4 Fear Lastly, there is a specific that without a state indem- cases could be taken against They fear that, given that speed broadband for their ‘50-people’ rule a pro-abortion doctor in the associations are rights that apparent contravention the view that babies’ lives Harris about freedom of to launch a second route in hospital showed a group of provision, Article 44 of nity, the scheme could not go the schools involved in the community hubs would see own use rather than acting as are considered so important of public health advice in matter too, would be choice, but how can you Newcastle through Tollymore people assembled peaceably the Constitution, which forward. scheme. increased use outside normal a community internet access Staff reporter in Irish law that they relation to large gatherings, trumped by the rights of the have a free choice when you Forest. outside the hospital, says that the State shall A state indemnity would School insurers are already school hours, the incidence of point. The Diocese of Kerry come under the heading suggests that our leaders very people destroying those don’t know all the options “These walks are totally respect and honour religion. has appealed to TDs in apparently praying, some ‘Fundamental Rights’ in the will acknowledge the open to you? If you are poor inclusive and truly cross- same children. Furthermore, freedom of the county to urge the carrying white crosses. Irish Constitution. importance of the right to and desperate and cannot community appealing to all conscience, and the free Government to relax a There was no evidence A law that would impose protest – provided it is the see a way out, how is your faiths and none,” he said. profession and practice of rule that would permit as that they were trying to exclusion zones would sort of protest to which they It would choice truly free, if removing Garda Horkan’s death a reminder intimidate or harass anyone, ❛❛ religion are, again subject to those obstacles would make few as 50 people to attend offend against all three are sympathetic. seem that the new public order and morality, Mass from June 29. something that Garda of these rights. First, the When it comes to pro- you decide on another Schools defy guaranteed to every citizen. When the Government Commissioner, Drew Harris, right to freely express one’s lifers, however, Harris and Government will course of action? Primate on of gardaí’s bravery – Bishop Leahy has confirmed in relation to How does a group of people As is always the case in announced the accelerated opinion means that even others of his persuasion will have to rely on the gathered outside a clinic academic selection The passing of Garda Colm Horkan experience. I was struck by the like Colm Horkan, integral in our roadmap there was no pro-life vigils generally. if a Government minister try to argue that their very law, fundamental rights saying the rosary offend Two Tyrone Catholic Gram- has been a tragic reminder of the obvious thought of dread that must community.” mention of the limit. thinks you’re ‘wrong’, you presence outside a hospital ‘morality’ clause in are important only when against public order or mar schools have said they heroism and bravery of an Garda cross every Garda’s mind: ‘such a However, at the weekend Consultation are entitled to express your is enough to offend against the Government wants to morality? And how does the will have entrance exams Síochána as they work daily to make thing could happen to me in the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar Branding the individuals wrong-headed ideas. You the rights of those entering the Constitution” deny them to you – when Community idea of an exclusion zone despite the Primate of All- society safer for all, said Bishop course of my daily duty’. Bishop Leahy praised Garda Horkan said that only 50 people “anti-democratic” and are even entitled by law to the building. Ergo, they The right to form the majority is against that would prevent people Ireland calling for schools to Brendan Leahy of Limerick. “[T]here is an unwritten but real as being “a man of community would be permitted in “wrong”, Harris said he was express your view that he should be prevented from associations is also you. The result of the from praying in certain abandon them this year due Speaking following a premise imprinted on their job and of sport, a man of and for his a building – even if the committed to legislating might be the one who is protesting in that area. After fundamental to a democracy. referendum suggests that places “respect and honour to the pandemic. remembrance service outside Henry description – be ready to give your people”. church could comfortably for exclusion zones. Fine wrong. all, they say, the right to It is the mark of a tyrannical the wind is at the back of religion”? St Patrick’s Academy in Street Garda station in Limerick, life for others. No one has a greater He concluded his statement, hold 1,500 people. Gael’s prospective coalition The rights to assemble assemble is not an unlimited regime that it prevents those pushing for exclusion The Constitution also Dungannon and St Joseph’s in Bishop Leahy said an unmistakable love than that. saying that he and the community Archbishop Diarmuid partners seem to agree. peaceably and to protest right. people from meeting and zones. This makes it all the states clearly that the nearby Donaghmore will use sense of the selflessness of Gardai “[A]s Gardaí gathered in Limerick were praying that Garda Horkan Martin described the Last year the Taoiseach, peacefully are fundamental But following that logic associating with other more important that, if the State shall not impose academic selection. permeated the solemn occasion. today, it made me recognise with “is at peace and that his watch rule as “strange and Leo Varadkar, told the Dáil democratic rights, and not through, no one would ever like-minded citizens. That is Government gets its way in any disabilities or make Archbishop Eamon Martin Speaking after the ceremony, renewed admiration and gratitude and protection will continue from disappointing”. that, following consultation in any way ‘anti-democratic’, be able to protest, because the way governments lose legislation, the courts come any discrimination on of the Archdiocese of Armagh, Bishop Leahy said: “It was a moving how these women and men are, just above”. Shane O’Donoghue, the with the Attorney as wrongly described by the someone will always be control: when citizens start to the defence of the pro-life the grounds of religious the diocese in which the two property administrator General, legislating for minority. And to the defence profession. But unless schools are located, wrote a with the Diocese of Kerry, exclusion zones was legally of those women who, if the State were to impose letter to schools urging them If you’re present at a celebration or event in your and part of the team problematic. Indeed, Harris they could see that someone Would you like to The rights to assemble peaceably and to a blanket ban on any not to go ahead with the tests behind the diocese’s himself said that it was not ❛❛ cared, that someone was parish, why not take a photograph and email it to: kind of protest outside for the 2021 academic year. guidelines regarding the straightforward but hinted prepared to offer real help see your parish protest peacefully are fundamental democratic hospitals – in which case The Tyrone schools are the [email protected] resumption of public that they were looking to to them and their baby, that church services told Radio model the law on Britain’s anyone protesting against someone was praying for first in the Catholic sector to photos published in Photos in jpeg format are fine and please do tell us rights, and not in any way ‘anti-democratic’, as reaffirm their commitment to Kerry that he would be recent introduction of the likes of the Cervical them and their baby, might who is in the photo, the occasion and the parish. lobbying TDs for a change. exclusion zones. 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8 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 Ireland should ‘leverage’ UN security council to help persecuted Christians It’s been said that if tional recognition. “I hope The security council has 15 Chai Brady they highlight religious free- members, five are permanent, Ireland’s recently won seat on dom worldwide as being the US, UK, France, Russia and Thank your name is held the United Nations Security something that’s a good thing China, and there are 10 non- Council can be an opportu- to defend and a good thing to permanent seats, filled on a you, Ann! nity to “leverage” the council promote,” Dr Kinsella said. rotating basis. to support persecuted Chris- Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tians, according to Aid to the Erosion said the seat would be used to in the hearts of others, Church in Need Ireland (ACN). “I hope that they specifically advance “peace and security, Last week it was ann- highlight the persecution conflict resolution, reconcilia- of Christians because per- ounced that Ireland secured tion, climate action, sustaina- secution against Christians enough votes, along with ble development, and gender Norway, to win a two-year represents three things, it you will never truly die. equality”. non-permanent seat. represents an erosion of Dr Michael Kinsella, Direc- human rights, an erosion of tor of ACN, said: “It would be international stability and it Reservations However, Dr Kinsella ex- a wonderful gift of solidarity represents an attack on free- hen you set aside a gift of most everlasting gifts of all made indifference, and exploitation to the persecuted Christians dom of speech and thought. pressed deep reservations and an acknowledgment of “All of which Ireland as a about whether Ireland would any size in your Will to by caring people just like you worldwide, we believe that even what they’re suffering under small democracy, now hav- tackle Christian persecution W tyrannical regimes, to lever- ing a seat at the table of the with the newfound position. Trócaire, your good and across Ireland. though you pass on, your good age the security council posi- security council, is meant He said most likely “any tion for good.” to defend. Really there’s no reference to persecuted generous name will never die. So whether you ultimately name should never die. He said it was “an influ- other group of people on the Christians will be opaque and ential position” and comes planet that suffers as much as given within the context of Every year after your passing, include Trócaire in your final Request your free and with a degree of interna- Christians.” wider religious freedoms”. we'll honour your name in legacy – or another worthy cause – confidential legacy planner gratitude and love at a special we have a free and easy planner from Trócaire today. Then Pandemic has caused new Remembrance Mass where all you can bring to your solicitor to bring the planner to your poverties – Bishop McKeown faiths are welcome. get started. 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For the relief your legacy first strikes the weakest and those who were As churches reopen, the Church should not her coordination hanging on by their fingertips,” Dr McKeown be apologetic for what Jesus teaches, we of Church music Simple bequests of any size will bring to people living in said. must offer a message of healing and hope. at all Masses “If we structure our education system “Many people are frightened and and services by Will are some of the greatest, fear from poverty, injustice, in such a way as to advantage the already insecure,” said Dr McKeown. “They need to in the parish advantaged, are we building a future based at least have the chance to hear a message during the weeks on community or on competition? of healing and hope. Today’s missionary of lockdown “[T]here will be a poverty of hope for training from Jesus tells us not to be afraid without choirs or To request your free legacy planner now, including bequest wording and a simple many people. Can we offer a way of looking of criticism for speaking the uncomfortable congregation. at life which inspires our young people to truth unto power.” 4-step worksheet you can share privately with your solicitor, ring Grace Kelly on 01 5053 221, or email [email protected] Redemptorists are bowled over by Limerick novena response Follow ogy, Fr Gerry Moloney CSsR told tions mean that the novena ses- has been a good buzz around the but it does create a good buzz”. Staff reporter The Irish The Irish Catholic this week. sions are only online. church since it is open for private He said that the online pres- Charity Regulatory Authority No. 20204842; Revenue Number CHY 22508; Company Number 661147 The famous Redemptorist novena The annual event would nor- Fr Moloney said that it has prayer between sessions. ence “has definitely given us a Catholic on in Limerick has reached an even mally see the Redemptorist been “difficult” to connect with “A lot of people are coming in congregation from all over the Twitter bigger congregation than normal church in the city thronged with people because of the absence to light candles and to write peti- world that we wouldn’t have had thanks to the wonders of technol- worshippers, but Covid-19 restric- of a congregation, but that there tions and pray – it’s not the same, before”. IrishCathNews The challenge of accepting that Christ has no body, but yours Today’s Gospel, Matthew 10:37-42, meditation did not plough a single received and welcomed in other has in store for them. Even a cup is part of the instruction given by The Sunday field. For Mother Teresa of Calcutta ways. Although people may not of cold water will get its reward. Jesus to his apostles as he prepared her Christ-centred meditation was realise it, they are communing Give the cup of time to people… them to carry on his mission after Gospel the source of her service to the with the Lord when they perform time to listen, to pay attention, to his departure. He told his followers poor. works of charity. “Whatsoever you give thanks or affirmation. As Pope that it would be costly at times. Fr Silvester For the past three months do to the least of my brethren, that Francis put it: “I am a mission on O’Flynn Sometimes great personal sacrifices we have lived under restrictions this earth; that is the reason why I OFM Cap. you do unto me.” In today’s Gospel would have to be made. designed to control the spread of Jesus says: “Anyone who welcomes am here in this world.” This is how One might be called to leave minded that one is no Earthly Covid 19. It has been very difficult you welcomes me; and those who St Teresa of Avila described the family comforts. He compared it good! for many people. But there is welcome me welcome the one who mission of every Christian: to taking up your cross to follow We live in the computer age something good in everything sent me.” Christ has no body now but yours: him. He spoke of losing your life in when people have become very and much of the old culture of no hands, no feet but yours. order to find its real meaning and me-centred. Programmes of self- neighbourliness has been revived. Volunteers Yours are the eyes through which value. That means breaking out development are very helpful but Some people really missed Volunteers of all ages have stepped he looks with compassion on of the shell of self-centeredness. for many people this focus on visiting their church and especially out with great generosity and this world. Pope Francis often warns of the self has done nothing to improve not being able to receive the creativity. Volunteers act out of Yours are the feet with which he temptation to have a privatised their awareness of others. Writing Lord in Holy Communion. While goodness of heart. They do not seek walks. prayer life which is insensitive to about forms of Indian meditation, nothing compares with the Blessed a reward. But the less they seek, Yours are the hands with which he the needs of others. 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Charity Regulatory Authority No. 20204842; Revenue Number CHY 22508; Company Number 661147 10 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 Traditional Ready for the off! Lough Derg pilgrimages off due to Covid-19 would be required to imple- “Their support is carrying Chai Brady ment to ensure pilgrim and us through this difficult time,” While hopes had been high staff safety. he said. that pilgrims could return in “It is important to be He also confirmed that the late July, Fr La Flynn of Lough clear about how we reached ancient pilgrimage site “is Derg has confirmed that the this decision, since we know facing substantial financial traditional three-day pilgrim- that there are many pilgrims pressure”. age will not take place this who will be disappointed “The resources that sus- summer. with this news. Now when tain us annually come from It is the first time since so many other aspects of life the generous contributions 1828 that the pilgrimage has are moving, rather carefully, of pilgrims. We are intending been suspended with organis- back towards what used to be to open in a limited way on ers conceding that the nature normal, there will naturally the lakeshore from July 6 and of the pilgrimage involves be an expectation that the we are hoping that it may be close contact in sometimes three-day pilgrimage could possible to return to Station confined spaces. be possible. Island in the later part of the Prior Fr Flynn said that summer when we normally “we approached the ques- Pilgrims offer day retreats,” Fr La said. tion of re-opening for the Some 5,000 people make the Lough Derg has announced three-day pilgrimage with penitential pilgrimage each plans to offer pilgrims the our Lough Derg mission and year during the period from oppotyunity to ‘do Lough values at the forefront of June 1 until August 15. Derg from wherever you are’ our consciousness. We con- Fr La thanked the “hun- in June. Further information sidered these alongside the dreds of pilgrims who have on this can be found at www. Emily and Lilyrose prepare for St Mary’s Primary School Killyclogher in Tyrone’s virtual Covid-safe practices that we been in contact with us. loughderg.live sports day hosted by Core NI.

Strengthen devotion to the Blessed Sacrament with Government’s record on childcare will break providers – Aontú the remaining 30%,” said Mr “The Minister’s Office Ruadhán Jones Tóibín. has not been able to be con- Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín “However, there has been tacted,” Mr Tóibín continued. Adoration Companion has criticised the “flagrant no calculations or figures “Announcements are made mistreatment of childcare provided to support the pay- late at night on the weekend providers” by Minister Kath- ments. Accordingly, payments - twice on bank holiday week- Encourage your congregation erine Zappone. were made that were either ends. In a recent statement, TD too much or too little.” “In the words of one child- to stay proactive in their Tóibín suggested that the Mr Tóibín said that provid- care provider, their conduct prayer life with Magnificat’s actions of her department ers were given funds to pay has been nothing short of latest offering. Perfect for live threatens the childcare sec- teachers, but were then told ‘psychological abuse’.” streaming from home or tor as a whole. they owed the DCYA more Mr Tóibín concluded the “Minister Zappone pled- than they had been paid. statement, saying: “This gov- praying in church, this ged that in addition to the 70% “One teacher was told ernment’s record on childcare precious tool features: wage subsidy, the Depart- at 11pm this past Saturday will have been to break many ment for Children and Youth that she owed the DCYA over providers within the child- • Practical suggestions for adoration Affairs (DCYA) would top up €20,000. care sector.” and explanations of this ancient practice • Programs of Adoration in Time of NI pro-lifers urge Assembly Need • Profiles of saints who were known to act to protect the unborn for their devotion to the Blessed DUP said it would send a message to West- Sacrament Staff reporter minster that the regulations are not sup- • Scripture and meditations Pro-life campaigners in the North are urg- ported by Stormont. Dawn McAvoy Both Lives Matter co- • Prayers, hymns, and litanies ing the region’s Assembly to restore protec- tion for unborn children. It comes after MPs founder said that “words cannot express the disappointment we feel at the refusal of in Westminster voted to remove the last Westminster to respect devolution, the dem- legal obstacle meaning that abortion will be ocratic process and the voices of the many allowed for any reason up to 12 weeks, and people who live and work here. TO ORDER: up to birth on specific grounds such as dis- , “Our focus returns to the Northern Ireland ability. Assembly and we urge them to restore the + €2.50 P&P* A 01 6874024 The regulations came into force on March protections which Westminster has removed 31, and earlier in June the Assembly passed 3+ copies €5 P&P M [email protected] from our children and from women in North- a motion to register opposition to the new ern Ireland. To introduce care and support * ROI & NI ONLY www.irishcatholic.com/shop regulations. services, enabling women to choose life,” The vote had no effect on the laws but the she said. 10 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Comment ||11 Traditional Ready for the off! Take new student sex survey Lough Derg with a big grain of salt would be if we knew those taking part were genuinely representative of the student body at large. pilgrimages off In other words, what this survey really tells us is not that a huge number of students at third level have been sexually assaulted or harassed, but that there is a due to Covid-19 high number among the small would be required to imple- “Their support is carrying percentage who responded to the Chai Brady ment to ensure pilgrim and us through this difficult time,” We need to teach survey. While hopes had been high staff safety. he said. It would be a disaster of that pilgrims could return in “It is important to be He also confirmed that the young people monumental proportions if 29% of late July, Fr La Flynn of Lough clear about how we reached ancient pilgrimage site “is all female students in college were Derg has confirmed that the this decision, since we know facing substantial financial that there is sexually assaulted at some point in traditional three-day pilgrim- that there are many pilgrims pressure”. their student life. age will not take place this who will be disappointed “The resources that sus- more to sex than If the survey was genuinely summer. with this news. Now when tain us annually come from representative of the student body It is the first time since so many other aspects of life the generous contributions just consent, as a whole, then it would mean 1828 that the pilgrimage has are moving, rather carefully, of pilgrims. We are intending that something like 26,000 of the been suspended with organis- back towards what used to be to open in a limited way on writes David current female population of our ers conceding that the nature normal, there will naturally the lakeshore from July 6 and colleges have had sex against their of the pilgrimage involves be an expectation that the we are hoping that it may be Quinn will at some point, and about 9,000 close contact in sometimes three-day pilgrimage could possible to return to Station of the male students. (This is based new survey was launched confined spaces. be possible. Island in the later part of the on the fact that there are 180,000 to plenty of publicity Prior Fr Flynn said that summer when we normally students enrolled at third level, earlier this week. If it is “we approached the ques- Pilgrims offer day retreats,” Fr La said. split roughly 50-50 between the at all accurate, no parent tion of re-opening for the Some 5,000 people make the Lough Derg has announced sexes). three-day pilgrimage with penitential pilgrimage each plans to offer pilgrims the should let their children, especially Atheir daughters, anywhere near our Lough Derg mission and year during the period from oppotyunity to ‘do Lough values at the forefront of June 1 until August 15. Derg from wherever you are’ university or any other third Consent is level institution because sexual ❛❛ our consciousness. We con- Fr La thanked the “hun- in June. Further information considered the only thing sidered these alongside the dreds of pilgrims who have on this can be found at www. Emily and Lilyrose prepare for St Mary’s Primary School Killyclogher in Tyrone’s virtual harassment, abuse and outright Covid-safe practices that we been in contact with us. loughderg.live sports day hosted by Core NI. rape is so common. needed before having sex Fortunately, there is no reason to believe in its accuracy, although with someone you may that is not the same as saying the have met only minutes Strengthen devotion to the Blessed Sacrament with Government’s record on childcare sexual environment facing a lot of people today isn’t very treacherous ago” will break providers – Aontú sometimes. This would be so bad, we would The survey has been produced need either gardaí on campuses the remaining 30%,” said Mr “The Minister’s Office by something called the ‘Active at all times to protect students, Ruadhán Jones Tóibín. has not been able to be con- Consent’ unit at the National especially at social events, or else “However, there has been tacted,” Mr Tóibín continued. Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín University of Ireland Galway, in colleges would have to hire lots of no calculations or figures “Announcements are made Adoration Companion has criticised the “flagrant conjunction with the students’ private security. If the situation was provided to support the pay- late at night on the weekend mistreatment of childcare union. as terrible as the survey indicates, ments. Accordingly, payments - twice on bank holiday week- across the population being studied We wouldn’t trust the result students in the country, meaning providers” by Minister Kath- If the survey is to be believed, then students would surely be were made that were either ends. and who are representative of that if they asked the question of a just 3.2% completed it. Encourage your congregation erine Zappone. 29% of female students have had quitting colleges in droves for their too much or too little.” “In the words of one child- population in terms of age, sex, thousand people in a few pubs Obviously, an opinion poll In a recent statement, TD sex against their will, because they own protection. to stay proactive in their Mr Tóibín said that provid- care provider, their conduct social class, etc. in Dublin city centre one night involving a thousand people is Tóibín suggested that the were incapacitated at the time, In truth, there is no reason to ers were given funds to pay has been nothing short of because while it might be a big only a tiny fraction of the general prayer life with Magnificat’s actions of her department or had force or the threat of force believe it is anything like as bad as enough number, it wouldn’t be a population, much lower than 3.2%. latest offering. Perfect for live threatens the childcare sec- teachers, but were then told ‘psychological abuse’.” used on them. We wouldn’t the survey indicates. random sample or representative of So, surely we can trust the findings streaming from home or tor as a whole. they owed the DCYA more Mr Tóibín concluded the The headline figure for male ❛❛ That said, if 29% of the small trust the result if they the broader population. It would be of the Sexual Experiences Survey? “Minister Zappone pled- than they had been paid. statement, saying: “This gov- students is 10%. minority of female students who praying in church, this heavily skewed in favour of young Not so fast. ged that in addition to the 70% “One teacher was told ernment’s record on childcare For students describing asked the question of a people, and young people who go did take part in the study have had precious tool features: wage subsidy, the Depart- at 11pm this past Saturday will have been to break many themselves as ‘non-binary’, the into pubs in Dublin city centre on a sex against their will – adding up to ment for Children and Youth that she owed the DCYA over providers within the child- number is 28%. ‘Non-binary’ means thousand people in a few Motivation • Practical suggestions for adoration given night at that. When you send out a survey about 1,139 in all – that is still very Affairs (DCYA) would top up €20,000. care sector.” the student identifies as neither alarming. (The breakdown of those and explanations of this ancient pubs in Dublin city centre The SES survey at first glance electronically to the whole student male nor female. who completed it is two-thirds practice one night because...it had an impressively large number population and only 3.2% respond, of people who took part and it is not a random sample. In fact, female, one-third male.) • Programs of Adoration in Time of NI pro-lifers urge Assembly Harassment wouldn’t be a random completed 80% or more of the it is self-selected. That is, the ones What’s going on? One part of The study, called the ‘Sexual Need online questionnaire. Just over who most want to take part do the answer is surely that we now Experiences Survey’ (SES), also sample” live in a culture which has been • Profiles of saints who were known to act to protect the unborn 6,000 did so. That’s far more than so, and it is quite likely that the says that half of first year students relentlessly sold the message that for their devotion to the Blessed The classic kind of survey we the usual 1,000 needed for a poll to students most highly motivated to DUP said it would send a message to West- reported being sexually harassed every adult is potentially sexually Sacrament are all familiar with is the political be considered reliable. take part were the ones with a bad Staff reporter minster that the regulations are not sup- since beginning college, rising to opinion poll, that is, the poll which But when you read the survey experience of college life. available at any time to every other • Scripture and meditations Pro-life campaigners in the North are urg- ported by Stormont. 66% among third year students. asks who you would vote for if an a bit more closely you discover The only way we could be adult. Harassment is defined in ing the region’s Assembly to restore protec- Dawn McAvoy Both Lives Matter co- election were held today. that there are 180,000 third level reasonably sure of the findings Consent is considered the only • Prayers, hymns, and litanies the survey as “sexist or sexual tion for unborn children. It comes after MPs founder said that “words cannot express thing needed before having sex the disappointment we feel at the refusal of harassment, unwanted efforts to with someone you may have met in Westminster voted to remove the last Westminster to respect devolution, the dem- establish a sexual relationship, only minutes ago. legal obstacle meaning that abortion will be When you send out a survey electronically ocratic process and the voices of the many and harassment via electronic ❛❛ Add alcohol into the mix and allowed for any reason up to 12 weeks, and people who live and work here. communication”. you have a recipe for disaster, TO ORDER: up to birth on specific grounds such as dis- Whenever you see the findings , “Our focus returns to the Northern Ireland to the whole student population and only even if not on the scale the survey ability. Assembly and we urge them to restore the of a survey reported you should indicates. + €2.50 P&P* A 01 6874024 The regulations came into force on March protections which Westminster has removed immediately look to see how it Consent alone is not enough. We 31, and earlier in June the Assembly passed 3+ copies €5 P&P M [email protected] from our children and from women in North- was conducted. The surveys we 3.2% respond, it is not a random sample. In need to teach people to reach much a motion to register opposition to the new ern Ireland. To introduce care and support can trust the most involve at least * ROI & NI ONLY higher than this in their sexual www.irishcatholic.com/shop regulations. services, enabling women to choose life,” 1,000 people randomly chosen relationships. The vote had no effect on the laws but the she said. fact, it is self-selected” 12 | Events || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 r1 Out&About Cortober community bids farewell to much-loved Fr Martin

ROSCOMMON: The Cortober Youth Choir sang a hymn as parishioners from Croghan, Drumlion and Cortober paid their respects to former parish priest, Fr Martin Mulvaney in Cortober, Carrick-on-Shannon. Friends, GAA clubs, groups and schools lined the route as his remains proceeded to his native Sligo. Photo: Gerry Faughnan

ROSCOMMON: Mickey and Nora Lynch from Cortober wait to pay their respect to LOUTH: Srs Dominika, Teresa and Cathy enjoy the library in the Monastery of St Catherine of former parish priest, the late Fr Martin Mulvaney, before the hearse carrying his remains Siena in Drogheda during the coronavirus pandemic. passed by in Cortober, Carrick-on-Shannon. Photo: Gerry Faughnan INSHORT on the colour scheme and general layout but craftwork. out, with some help from the Lord in the Nuns create new the pandemic caused by Covid-19 led to the “In addition, we needed to close our form of moments of inspiration (out of the process being interrupted. retreat house – thus removing a significant blue) during her Adoration”. website to reach out By the end of March, however, when it source of our income. It now became vital to “After a few rather poor (and unusable) had become clear that the Covid-19 crisis have the ability to accept donations, requests photos however she realised that she had during Covid-19 was not going to pass quickly, the creation for prayer enrolment cards, and orders for The Dominican nuns in the Monastery of better delegate the photo taking to another of a new website became much more cards, candles, etc. online as a replacement sister and she became a ‘director’ instead: St Catherine of Siena in Drogheda have important. source of income. So we went back to work ‘I need a photo of a sister studying in the announced the launch of their new website Since a number of their sisters are elderly on the website.” library...and one of someone taking a book and online shop. and vulnerable the community had to close It took over two months to complete as According to the nuns for some time they the monastery and chapel to the public. they had to get the effect/result they wanted off the shelves’, ‘that kitchen photo we have had thought they needed to freshen-up their In a message sent to this paper, the nuns for various items and kept discovering more doesn’t work, can you get another one?’, website, as well as including an online shop. said: “This meant that people were no longer photos were needed of the community ‘we’ve no photos from the quilling class, can In late February they discovered website coming up to our chapel to pray or calling and various shop products. According to you take some?’, etc. It’s finally finished and creation software that fitted the bill. into the reception to order prayer enrolment the community, their ‘IT sister’, Sr Teresa we’re very pleased with it.” By the end of February, they had decided cards or buy some of our cards, candles and Dunphy OP, “quite enjoyed working things Their website is www.dominicannuns.ie 12 | Events || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Events ||13 r1 r1

Edited by Chai Brady Events deadline is a week in advance of publication Out&About [email protected] Cortober community bids farewell to much-loved Fr Martin

DUBLIN: Mass online at Our Lady Mother of the Church in the Parish of Castleknock.

ROSCOMMON: The Cortober Youth Choir sang a hymn as parishioners from Croghan, Drumlion and Cortober paid their respects to former parish priest, Fr Martin Mulvaney in Cortober, Carrick-on-Shannon. Friends, GAA clubs, groups and schools lined the route as his remains proceeded to his native Sligo. Photo: Gerry Faughnan

CORK: Poor Clare Sisters, Sr Faustina and Sister Francis, avail of the quieter time of lockdown to spend time in the garden. They are pictured viewing their lettuce harvest.

▲DUBLIN: From left: Bailey O’Connell (9), siblings Katelin (8) and Brandon Collins (10), Katie O’Brien (11) and Matthew Egan (11) from St Agnes’ Community Centre for Music and the Arts, Crumlin with soprano Maireád Buicke preparing for their performance of ‘Ode to Joy’ on European Music Day which took place on Sunday.

The nation was invited to join them in a large-scale tribute to frontline▲ workers. Photo: Mark Stedman DUBLIN: Matthew Egan (11) and Bailey O’Connell (9) from St Agnes’ Community Centre for Music and the Arts, Crumlin are among the thousands of musicians and singers preparing for their performance of ‘Ode to Joy’ on European Music Day which took place over the weekend. Photo: Mark Stedman

ROSCOMMON: Mickey and Nora Lynch from Cortober wait to pay their respect to LOUTH: Srs Dominika, Teresa and Cathy enjoy the library in the Monastery of St Catherine of former parish priest, the late Fr Martin Mulvaney, before the hearse carrying his remains Siena in Drogheda during the coronavirus pandemic. passed by in Cortober, Carrick-on-Shannon. Photo: Gerry Faughnan DONEGAL: Diarmuid Ó Cathail from Letterkenny recently INSHORT ran 100km over the course of a week raising €1265 for Trócaire. Diarmuid said: “I had seen Trócaire’s video about on the colour scheme and general layout but craftwork. out, with some help from the Lord in the their work against Covid-19 in Somalia. We think things the pandemic caused by Covid-19 led to the “In addition, we needed to close our form of moments of inspiration (out of the Nuns create new are bad here with Covid but the resources in Somalia are process being interrupted. retreat house – thus removing a significant blue) during her Adoration”. so much less plus the pandemic is layered upon problems website to reach out By the end of March, however, when it source of our income. It now became vital to “After a few rather poor (and unusable) with locusts, floods and malnutrition so I wanted to do had become clear that the Covid-19 crisis have the ability to accept donations, requests photos however she realised that she had something.” Donations can be made online at www. during Covid-19 was not going to pass quickly, the creation for prayer enrolment cards, and orders for The Dominican nuns in the Monastery of better delegate the photo taking to another trocaire.org or by phone at 1850 408 408. of a new website became much more cards, candles, etc. online as a replacement sister and she became a ‘director’ instead: St Catherine of Siena in Drogheda have important. source of income. So we went back to work ‘I need a photo of a sister studying in the announced the launch of their new website Since a number of their sisters are elderly on the website.” Events and online shop. library...and one of someone taking a book and vulnerable the community had to close It took over two months to complete as l In the current Covid-19 crisis, it is clear that According to the nuns for some time they the monastery and chapel to the public. they had to get the effect/result they wanted off the shelves’, ‘that kitchen photo we have had thought they needed to freshen-up their doesn’t work, can you get another one?’, most (and perhaps all) Church events, other than In a message sent to this paper, the nuns for various items and kept discovering more some Masses, are suspended. Consequently, we website, as well as including an online shop. said: “This meant that people were no longer photos were needed of the community ‘we’ve no photos from the quilling class, can TIPPERARY: Fr Michael Mullins celebrated Mass are withholding the popular Events Listing column In late February they discovered website coming up to our chapel to pray or calling and various shop products. According to you take some?’, etc. It’s finally finished and for his Golden Jubilee in St Molleran’s Church, until normal activities can resume in our parishes. creation software that fitted the bill. into the reception to order prayer enrolment the community, their ‘IT sister’, Sr Teresa we’re very pleased with it.” Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir and was presented with a However, please do email us if you know of any By the end of February, they had decided cards or buy some of our cards, candles and Dunphy OP, “quite enjoyed working things Their website is www.dominicannuns.ie Papal blessing. parish event planned and we will publish details. 14 | Feature || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 Finding solace after spouse’s death

Shannon Savage

Chai Brady speaks to a widow coping with grief and single parenthood

hen a freak tornado took a woman’s husband leaving her to raise her two young children by herself, faith, familyW and her writing helped her through the isolation and sorrow. Ohio-born and bred, Shannon Savage told The Irish Catholic that despite the tragedy, she came to accept that God had a plan for her life. “It’s been a pretty incredible journey and I want people to know that when something happens in your life if you can find the patience and have time go by, it’s crazy to be able to look back and see God’s handprints on every part of your journey,” Mrs Savage said. “I just want so much for people to experience that faith like I and her husband Mark was killed of friends who each had a very did, because it’s a very peaceful, underneath their full-sized strong faith. They were “a great peaceful feeling. It’s a beautiful life. camper van. source of comfort”, she explains. Mrs Savage says the period Progressively her faith started to It was about immediately after the disaster, grow rather than diminish. ❛❛ which happened in June, was 1.30am when a freak “really hard to describe” as she Scripture finds it difficult to remember “It just seemed that from the get go tornado came in the that summer. God just started showing me things. middle of the night “I just was completely pretty I was looking at scripture and things much numb, but I do remember in a whole different way, whereas and her husband after the funeral and everything up until this point I always had faith settled down, feeling very angry. but I was never real strong in it I Mark was killed” I had a lot of anger, especially at guess, it was kind of like I put it on “I feel like I have a more God,” she said. the back shelf,” she says. beautiful life now than I would “Why would a loving God allow have if Mark hadn’t died, which is this to happen? Why would He She believes that crazy to say but it’s kind of how I allow a man to be taken who had ❛❛ feel because I’ve seen and felt God life in the palm of his hand, two God was calling her in a way that I never would have little kids, why would he let that if he wouldn’t have died and that’s happen?” she asks. to learn more about the ultimate peaceful feeling that “So I had a lot of questions Him and to learn you can have. That’s what I hope about that. I also went through for people.” a lot of guilt, because why was about Mark’s death he killed and not me? And I also Camping would have a lot of ‘what if’ from His perspective” It was in 2010 when Mrs Savage scenarios in my head, like, ‘if we “I never really studied the Bible and her husband decided to go would have just done this, this and looked at things for myself on a camping trip with their wouldn’t have happened’, ‘if this and then after Mark died of course two boys, Zane (5) and Xavier would have happened then he I couldn’t get enough of it and (2), in the neighbouring US state would still be alive’.” it was just like scripture all of of Pennsylvania. It was about When asked what helped sudden was kind of popping out 1.30am when a freak tornado her through her faith struggle, at me and I would just go ‘oh, that came in the middle of the night Mrs Savage said she had a lot makes a lot of sense’.” ❛❛ I want people to know that when something happens in your life if you can find the patience and have time go by, it’s crazy to be able to look back and see God’s Shannon and her husband Mark and two boys pictured before the handprints on every part of your journey,” tragic accident in 2010. 14 | Feature || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Feature ||15

She believes that God was calling her to learn more about Him and to learn about Mark’s death from His perspective. The Finding solace after spouse’s death second week after her husband’s death she went back to church, and began writing down some of Shannon Savage her “raw emotions”, which she describes was an outlet. Mrs Savage grew up in a rural environment and now lives just 20 minutes away from her childhood home, where her parents still live. She has 5 brothers and sisters. “When I look back on my childhood, I had a good happy childhood, was raised in the church but never really understood what it meant to really Chai Brady have a Christ centred heart until I speaks to a widow got a little bit older,” she says. coping with About three years❛❛ after Mark’s grief and single death Mrs Savage parenthood decided to quit her hen a freak tornado teaching job which took a woman’s she had been doing husband leaving her to raise her two for 15 years” young children by herself, faith, Describing her mother and familyW and her writing helped her father as “the most selfless people through the isolation and sorrow. on the world”, Mrs Savage received Ohio-born and bred, Shannon a lot of support from them. Savage told The Irish Catholic that “It was just very difficult and despite the tragedy, she came to I had to learn just to take things accept that God had a plan for her one day at a time, if I got ahead of Shannon and Mark on their wedding day. life. myself I would drive myself crazy,” “It’s been a pretty incredible she says. journey and I want people to know which I think is to this day nothing larly hard, whether it be from a Christian faith or have lapsed in the time of her husband’s death that when something happens Quit I regret. It was one of the best friends or family. their faith. There are also aspects of there were no restrictions and in your life if you can find the For this reason, about three years decisions I made,” she says. mental health issues she experienced Mrs Savage could have physical patience and have time go by, it’s after Mark’s death Mrs Savage Part of her coping method with Deal as a result of the tragedy. support from friends and family, crazy to be able to look back and decided to quit her teaching job the sudden loss of her husband and Mrs Savage explains: “I would say She says: “I definitely want but she reminds anyone in a see God’s handprints on every part which she had been doing for becoming a single mother became that for me it was very hard for me people who don’t have faith to read difficult situation at this time that of your journey,” Mrs Savage said. 15 years. “I just felt that I was “taking it day by day, giving up my to ask for help or to tell somebody it to, because hopefully it will help God is always there. “I just want so much for people running myself ragged I couldn’t job and just relying on support of I was having a hard time because them come to faith, also people who to experience that faith like I and her husband Mark was killed of friends who each had a very be there for the boys. That was those good friends and my parents”. I felt like: ‘OK, God gave me this struggle with anxiety and panic, Scenario did, because it’s a very peaceful, underneath their full-sized strong faith. They were “a great a huge decision to hang up my However, asking for help dur- horrible situation and I’m going to because that what’s happened She says: “To be in a situation peaceful feeling. It’s a beautiful life. camper van. source of comfort”, she explains. teaching career to be home ing that time for her was particu- deal with it all on my own because previously, just about a year and where you lose your loved one with Mrs Savage says the period Progressively her faith started to with them I have to show the world I’m strong a half ago I got struck really badly, this kind of scenario, with Covid It was about immediately after the disaster, grow rather than diminish. and I’ve got this. panic attacks almost a decade later. going on, that’s a great concern ❛❛ which happened in June, was “In retrospect now, I think a lot So there’s a whole mental health because I could have people over, 1.30am when a freak “really hard to describe” as she Scripture of times a lot of people don’t know aspect in there too.” I could have people around me, tornado came in the finds it difficult to remember “It just seemed that from the get go what to do and they don’t know whereas now it’s kind of limited. that summer. God just started showing me things. what to say and they don’t know if Ten years after That’s a huge concern,” she says, middle of the night “I just was completely pretty I was looking at scripture and things you need help, so I think something ❛❛ adding that “your constant support much numb, but I do remember in a whole different way, whereas I would say is seek out those people Mark’s death, Mrs that is going to be there and never and her husband after the funeral and everything up until this point I always had faith that you do trust wholeheartedly leave you is God.” Mark was killed” settled down, feeling very angry. but I was never real strong in it I and don’t be afraid to say ‘I’m having Savage has produced “I think that is even more I had a lot of anger, especially at guess, it was kind of like I put it on a really rough time, I’m having a important than asking humans “I feel like I have a more a memoir, My Walk God,” she said. the back shelf,” she says. really bad day I need help’.” for help because He is there. beautiful life now than I would “Why would a loving God allow “Even though it’s one of the in June, which is When something happens in your have if Mark hadn’t died, which is this to happen? Why would He hardest things to do but I wish I life whether it’s good or bad he crazy to say but it’s kind of how I She believes that written through the allow a man to be taken who had ❛❛ could give my previous self that is trying to grab your attention feel because I’ve seen and felt God life in the palm of his hand, two God was calling her message 10 years ago, that it’s and he’s trying to teach you in a way that I never would have lens of a new widow little kids, why would he let that ok to ask for help from people something. All you have to do is if he wouldn’t have died and that’s to learn more about happen?” she asks. that you trust the most and to and mother to her two be open to wanting to hear him the ultimate peaceful feeling that “So I had a lot of questions completely immerse yourself in speak to you. And to do that you you can have. That’s what I hope Him and to learn young boys” about that. I also went through God’s Word because when you do have to spend some quiet time for people.” a lot of guilt, because why was about Mark’s death that something pops out and he’ll Isolation, she says, is the perfect praying and just being still and he killed and not me? And I also from His perspective” give you these ‘ah ha’ moments word to describe how she felt. letting him talk to you. That’s Camping would have a lot of ‘what if’ and it helps you come to terms Although Mrs Savage had a good more important than human help It was in 2010 when Mrs Savage “I never really studied the Bible scenarios in my head, like, ‘if we with what happened in your life.” support network of friends and in my opinion.” and her husband decided to go and looked at things for myself would have just done this, this Ten years after Mark’s death, family, as time goes by after an The reason Mrs Savage wrote on a camping trip with their and then after Mark died of course wouldn’t have happened’, ‘if this Mrs Savage has produced a incident of the magnitude she two boys, Zane (5) and Xavier I couldn’t get enough of it and the book My Walk in June is would have happened then he memoir, My Walk in June, which experienced, people go back to twofold, the first was that writing (2), in the neighbouring US state would still be alive’.” it was just like scripture all of their lived and daily routine and of Pennsylvania. It was about sudden was kind of popping out is written through the lens of a everything that happened in her When asked what helped new widow and mother to her two “you get kind of forgotten about”. life became part of her healing 1.30am when a freak tornado her through her faith struggle, at me and I would just go ‘oh, that young boys. The book, she says, “I never feel like I quite fit in process. The second, more came in the middle of the night Mrs Savage said she had a lot makes a lot of sense’.” would be particularly relevant anywhere you know, it’s kind of importantly, was to show people for women, and men, who find like I’m not part of a couple so I that although devastating things I want people to know that when something happens themselves suddenly widowed don’t get invited to couple things can happen in people’s lives, “God ❛❛ with children. with kids because it’s just me, it’s will take the worst thing that can in your life if you can find the patience and have time “That’s the first audience that a very isolating spot to be,” she happen to you and use it for good”. comes to mind is people who lose says. The coronavirus pandemic “I wanted people to be able to their spouse and having to navigate has led to more people becoming see that my Christian faith is the go by, it’s crazy to be able to look back and see God’s raising your kids,” she says. isolated due to social distancing foundation of who I am and I do Shannon and her husband Mark and two boys pictured before the Shannon with her two boys Xavier and Zane. However, she also wants to concerns and the guidelines of attribute my faith in getting me tragic accident in 2010. handprints on every part of your journey,” reach out to those who do not have governments across the world. At through,” she says. 16 | Feature || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 We can’t return to the usual routine It has been so difficult not Community is key to men, deemed vulnerable to be able to celebrate Mass our local gathering. In our by public health officials, publicly. Whilst engagement pathway ahead as Church we are now expected to roll up with the online was a vehicle seriously need to reflect how their sleeves and get back to to communicate, nothing present and relevant we are maintaining essential services. can compare to the personal in the lives of our people. If It is this maintenance encounter, that we now can not, we will quickly return to model of Church that return to after almost four the familiar routine where unfortunately makes months. in many parishes there was lockdown the dress a clear disconnect between rehearsal for a sizable It has been so the Church and the local proportion of parishes in Elderly men, ❛❛ community. all our dioceses. Whilst difficult not to be As we return to celebrating Church leaders, have given deemed public Mass, we need to great detail regarding health able to celebrate do this sensibly and safely. and safety measures for vulnerable by Mass publicly. Whilst I cannot police our local reopening Churches, little public health church, nor do I want to. health should not in any way really important to allow as if any honest discernment engagement with the And I trust in all our faith feel obliged to attend. Social many as possible to return has been shared on this officials, are now online was a vehicle communities, we will hold distancing is fundamental to Mass. Many Liturgies obvious reality. How can we fast to our individual and to keeping us all safe. Our continue to be available on breathe life and energy into expected to roll to communicate” collective responsibility to pews will be clearly marked the parish webcams. parishes no longer served by clergy? How can we support The research team at ensure health and safety is to allow for this. Hand I am also conscious of up their sleeves Christian leadership in a real the Mater Dei Centre for thoroughly upheld. In a time sanitising will be provided the kindness expressed to way so that lockdown is not and get back Catholic Education at a permanent reality? Dublin City University has Crisis and pandemic, to maintaining been engaged in a research It is this maintenance model of Church despite heavy burden, can also project regarding adult faith, ❛❛ essential services offer opportunity and hope. which includes how adults In our pathway to recovery, writes Fr Paddy coped whilst in lockdown. It that unfortunately makes lockdown the we must be honest and real, showed a significant increase especially as clergy in our Byrne in engagement with the dress rehearsal for a sizable proportion responsible role to facilitate ince the start of online world, seeking a forum real action that will halt the Lockdown, I have to be nourished by faith. mechanical maintenance of celebrated 25 funer- However, it also highlighted of parishes in all our dioceses” services and perhaps begin als. I pray for all that the vast majority intend renewal and new life to our families whose bereavement once public Mass returns to of pandemic, the experience at all entrances. Pews will be us priests during this time faith communities. I take wasS so difficult because of disengage from the webcam of worship will be different. sanitised after Masses. Any of lockdown. Surely this is a comfort in the simple and the restrictions in place as a and return to the personal Pope Francis, has named that day you gather for mass is huge wake-up call that the profound promise: “Where result of Covid-19. May they encounter of community in those who are vulnerable sufficient for your traditional majority of clergy in every two or three are gathered in rest in peace. their local church. and need to protect their Sunday obligation. This is diocese had to cocoon. Elderly my name, I am with you”. A New Model of Mercy & Hope for the Future

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John G. O’Dwyer

In times of great uncertainty, we need reassuring anchors to cling to. Links with our ancestors who survived even greater travails become increasingly important and a walk along one of Ireland’s pilgrim paths is the perfect way to reconnect in this way. Until recently, few modern-day pilgrims considered these sacred trails an alternate to the hugely popular Spanish Camino, so almost all Irish people travelled abroad in search of pilgrim walking. In recent years, this has begun to change. Attracted by their mystical resonance, ever increasing numbers of Irish people are now returning to take up the pilgrim baton and follow the sacred trails of our forefathers. So, whatever your spiritual convictions, you are urged to get both feet working, as soon as possible, on one of the paths listed below. Remember, that if you live within 20km of a path you can do so from June 8, otherwise you must wait until July.

St Finbarr’s Pilgrim Path, Co Cork Authentic and well laid out pilgrim path that is justifiably referred to as the “Camino of Cork”. It accurately recreates St Finbarr’s journey from Drimoleague to Gougane Barra where the Saint founded a monastery and later went on to become Bishop of Cork. This pilgrim route offers a magnificent 2-day journey crossing 3 mountains and 4 valleys. Memorable views over Bantry Bay, the Cork coastline and a rich archaeological history are only overshadowed by the spectacular descent into Gougane Barra. Description: Mountain route suitable for well-equipped pilgrims with good fitness levels, who are used to walking in a mountain environment. Getting there: From Cork City take the N22 to Macroom and the R596 to Drimoleague. Start: Top of the Rock, Drimoleague Finish: St Finbarrr’s Oratory, Gougane Barra Gougane Barra Source: Wikimedia Commons Distance: 37km Time: 2 days

Turas Cholm Cille, Co Donegal Genuinely unsanatised pilgrimage marked by pagan standing stones that were later Christianised and then adroitly knotted together to form the Stations of the Cross. To complete the full pilgrim circuit, it is necessary to obtain the services of a local guide. For information on obtaining a guide contact 074 9730248 or email: [email protected]. No guide is needed to follow the first part of the route to St Columbkille’s Well. Official guided pilgrim walk of the route takes place each year on the feast of St Columbkille, which is June 9. Description: Low-level walking but trekking boots are essential as the terrain is rough underfoot in places and the route crosses marshland. Getting there: From Donegal town, follow the N56 to Killybegs and the R263 to Glencolumbkille. Start/Finish: The Protestant Church, Glencolumbkille Distance: 9km Time: 3.5 hours (full route) Glencolumbkille Church Photo: Sarah Murphy Source: Wikimedia Commons June 25, 2020 The Irish Spirit ||19

Kilcommon Pilgrim Loop, Co Tipperary Ancient path meandering the slopes of a mythical mountain and offering a tangible connection to how the people of Slieve Felim have expressed the need for spirituality since pagan times. Provides an opportunity to follow pre-Christian trails on Mother Mountain, once used for journeys of homage to the goddess Eilbhe. Later, they were stoically footed as mass paths by generations of upland people journeying to the Mass Rock at Laghile. Ideal family walk requiring just moderate fitness. Description: Easy route following well-maintained tracks with a total ascent of just 170m. It can, however, be wet in places around the Bilboa River so waterproof footwear is a definite advantage. Getting there: From Thurles, take the R498 and the R503 (signposted Limerick). After 18km go right at a sign for Kilcommon and the village is 2kms further. Start/finish:Kilcommon Community Centre. Upper lake, Glendalough, Wicklow Photo: Rob Hurson Distance: Time: Source: Wikimedia Commons 7km 2.5 hours

St Kevin’s Road, Co Wicklow Offers a golden opportunity to weave your way along St. Kevin´s Road to Glendalough, while walking in the footsteps of our ancient ancestors and connecting with the awe-inspiring beauty of the Wicklow uplands. Description: Moderately demanding trail following well maintained tracks and boardwalks with one hill leading up to the Wicklow Gap. After this, the route descends benignly to the finish at the ancient monastic site of Glendalough. Some areas are quite boggy, so be sure to wear boots and bring waterproofs. Generally, it presents no objective dangers or special navigational difficulties. Getting there: Take the N81 from Dublin or the R411 from Naas through Ballymore Eustace to the small Wicklow village of Hollywood. Start: Trailhead is located close by Hollywood Community Centre Finish: Glendalough Distance: 30 km Time: 6 hours Highest elevation: Wicklow Gap, 460m *Recommended Reading Glendalough: History, Monuments & Legends

St. Declan’s Way, Tipperary/Waterford Imagine celebrating Ireland’s national holiday, not in March but in July. It could have happened for July 24 is the feast day for a saint who, most likely, preceded St Patrick as a Christian missionary in Ireland. St Declan is now set to reclaim his rightful inheritance with the re-opening of Ireland’s longest pilgrim path in his honour. The new trail links royal Cashel with monastic Ardmore while touching upon such jewels as Cahir Castle, Mount Melleray Abbey and deeply historic Lismore along the way. Description: A long-distance walk suitable for well-equipped pilgrims who are used to walking long distances. It crosses the Knockmealdown Mountains, so walking boots and protective clothing are essential for this stage. Start/finish: Rock of Cashel, Co Tipperary or Ardmore Monastic Site, Co Waterford. Ardmore St. Declan’s Stone Photo: Andreas F. Borchert Distance: 115km Time: 5 to 7 days Source: Wikimedia Commons

Cosán na Naomh, Co Kerry Glendalough: History, Isolated by mountain and ocean, the weather-sculpted lands beyond Dingle carry an inescapable feeling Monuments & Legends by George McClafferty of regressing in time. This is particularly true of the ancient Cosán na Naomh penitential route that PRICE: €9.99 winds through ancient fields and fuchsia rich lanes from the pilgrims landing place at Ventry beach to Mount Brandon. Going Up The Holy Mountain Description: Path is at relatively low level but there are some challenging underfoot conditions and one by Gary Hastings steep ascent and descent, so walkers need to be well equipped and shod. Walking poles useful for the PRICE: €14.99 descent. Very fit walkers can complete the full pilgrim journey to Mount Brandon summit by setting off reasonably early. A 01 6874096 | M [email protected] | www.columbabooks.com or send a cheque to: Columba Books, 23 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, D02 XE02. Start: Cosán na Naomh trailhead, Ventry Beach Finish: Ballybrack carpark Getting there: Follow the R559 west from Dingle and swing left for Ventry beach carpark. Distance: 18km Time: 5 hours or 8.5 hours, if including Mount Brandon FREE POSTAGE ON ALL ORDERS 20 | The Irish Spirit June 25, 2020

Cnoc na dTobar, Co Kerry Cnoc na dTobar has been a sacred pilgrim site since prehistoric and medieval times and was the location of ancient mountain assemblies, especially the festival of Lughnasa, where harvest was celebrated on the mountain’s summit. Route follows 14 Stations of the Cross built in 1885 by Canon Brosnan, parish priest of Cahersiveen. Summit views are magnificent. They offer the Kerry Mountains, Dingle Bay, the West Cork hills and the Skellig islands. From the summit, walkers can either retrace their steps or continue along the mountain ridge by following an ancient mass path to Kells. Description: High level walk to a mountain summit requiring warm clothes, good comfortable walking shoes, a packed lunch and plenty of drinks. Walkers participate at own risk and remember navigation skills may be required in mist. Getting there: Turn off the N70/Ring of Kerry road, to cross the bridge in Cahersiveen. Take the first right and second left. Pass St Fursey’s Well. Park at the car park on the right where parking costs €3.00. Distance: 5 km Time: 4.5 hours or 6h Ascent: 650m

Tochar Phadraig, Co Mayo Tochar Phadraig is the genuine pilgrim article and long pre-dates the Spanish Camino. It was originally a prehistoric druidical pathway with many resonances still surviving from its pagan past. Christianised by St Patrick, it remains stubbornly untamed and much as it was for medieval pilgrims. Among those who have walked it is former President of Ireland Mary McAleese who afterwards wrote as follows; “Thank you for making our visit to Ballintubber Abbey a very special experience. Walking the Tochar was every bit as wonderful and prayerful as the Camino”. Description: The path is at relatively low level, but here are some challenging underfoot conditions so walkers need good footwear and adequate protective clothing. The final ascent over the shoulder of Croagh Patrick can prove tiring after a long day. Getting there: Ballintubber Abbey, located off the N84, 14km from Castlebar. Distance: 34 km Registration fee: €10 (payable to Ballintubber Abbey) Start: Ballintubber Abbey Finish: Murrisk car park *Recommended Reading Information: 094-9030934 | Web: www.ballintubberabbey.ie Going Up The Holy Mountain

Boyne Valley Camino, Co Louth Pilgrimage has been defined as a mindful journey to a place of spiritual significance and Mellifont Abbey, is certainly of profound significance. Founded in 1142, as the first Irish Cistercian Abbey, its coming heralded the demise of the long-established Celtic Church as the Cistercian Order spread nationwide. Now the ancient pilgrim route linking Mellifont with the medieval port of Drogheda has been revived. Description: Trail follows the River Boyne before making its way through the serene woodlands of the Townley Estate and then meandering quiet lanes to Mellifont. A separate return route gives a total walk of over 25km. This now counts towards completing the Spanish Camino when following the traditional Irish pilgrim route from the port of A Coruna to Santiago. Note: Since the walk is not yet fully waymarked, you will need the detailed map that is available for download from: caminosociety.com Start/finish:St Peter’s Church, West Street, Drogheda Distance: 26km (to Mellifont and back) Time: 6 hours Sli Mór, Co Offaly Initially cycling may seem an oddly incongruous mode of conveyance for a pilgrim path. but pilgrimage traditionally involves all non-mechanised transport and cyclists are commonly encountered on Europe’s penitential trails, along with an assortment of mules, horses and donkeys. So, in the case of the ancient Slí Mór, participants have a choice of either walking or cycling to Clonmacnoise which was followed by many scholars and pilgrims from Europe seeking enlightenment. Description: The route follows much of the great Esker Riada ridge on quiet roads that afford absorbing views. It contains little to challenge even the most casual cyclist or walker. Start: Ballycumber, Co Offaly which lies on the R436 between Clara and Ferbane St Peter’s Church Nave 1, Drogheda Distance: 24.5km Time: 1.5 hour leisurely cycle or a 5 hour walk Source: Wikimedia Commons 20 | The Irish Spirit June 25, 2020 June 25, 2020 The Irish Spirit ||21

Cnoc na dTobar, Co Kerry Maumeen Pilgrim Path, Cnoc na dTobar has been a sacred pilgrim site since prehistoric and medieval times and was the location of Co Galway ancient mountain assemblies, especially the festival of Lughnasa, where harvest was celebrated on the mountain’s summit. Route follows 14 Stations of the Cross built in 1885 by Canon Brosnan, parish priest of Cahersiveen. St Patrick is reputed to have come this way in the Summit views are magnificent. They offer the Kerry Mountains, Dingle Bay, the West Cork hills and the Skellig 5th century and immediately created a strong pilgrim islands. From the summit, walkers can either retrace their steps or continue along the mountain ridge by tradition by blessing Connemara from where he stood following an ancient mass path to Kells. at the head of the pass. Maumeen has ever since remained an important pilgrim site. There are all the Description: High level walk to a mountain summit requiring warm clothes, good comfortable walking shoes, usual incidentals of pilgrimage; an oratory, an outdoor a packed lunch and plenty of drinks. Walkers participate at own risk and remember navigation skills may be altar, a rocky cleft where St Patrick reputedly slept, a required in mist. statue of the saint and Stations of the Cross. Getting there: Turn off the N70/Ring of Kerry road, to cross the bridge in Cahersiveen. Take the first right and Getting there: From Galway take the N59 for Clifden. second left. Pass St Fursey’s Well. Park at the car park on the right where parking costs €3.00. Beyond Maam go right following the Slí Chonamara Distance: 5 km Time: 4.5 hours or 6h Ascent: 650m for about 3km to Maumeen carpark, which is located on the right-hand side of the road. Tochar Phadraig, Co Mayo Description: Unchallenging outing on well-defined tracks and quiet back roads. For the full traverse of Tochar Phadraig is the genuine pilgrim article and long pre-dates the Spanish Camino. It was originally a Maumeen (ascending the west side and descending prehistoric druidical pathway with many resonances still surviving from its pagan past. Christianised by St to the east) it is best to leave a second car at Keanes Patrick, it remains stubbornly untamed and much as it was for medieval pilgrims. Among those who have Slemish mountain, Co Antrim Pub, Maum Bridge. If you wish to shorten your walk walked it is former President of Ireland Mary McAleese who afterwards wrote as follows; “Thank you for you can also leave a car in a small carpark above Cur, making our visit to Ballintubber Abbey a very special experience. Walking the Tochar was every bit as wonderful near the end of the northeast track from Maumeen. and prayerful as the Camino”. Slemish, Co Antrim Maumeen chapel Distance: 9km Time: About 3.5 hours for the full walk. Description: Initially the Slemish pilgrim path leads upwards at a The path is at relatively low level, but here are some challenging underfoot conditions so walkers Source: Wikimedia Commons need good footwear and adequate protective clothing. The final ascent over the shoulder of Croagh Patrick sympathetic angle. Soon however, the smooth grasslands can prove tiring after a long day. are behind and you will find yourself scrambling skywards Getting there: Ballintubber Abbey, located off the N84, 14km from Castlebar. over disobliging basalt. The advantage of a steep gradient is that height comes rapidly to gain a magnificent Distance: 34 km Registration fee: €10 (payable to Ballintubber Abbey) 360-degree view. It includes the great sweep of the Lough Derg, Co Donegal Start: Finish: Ballintubber Abbey Murrisk car park *Recommended Reading Antrim plateau and beyond Ireland’s most evocative Timeless pilgrim route far removed from roads, Information: 094-9030934 | Web: www.ballintubberabbey.ie Going Up The Holy Mountain coastline you will see the gleam of the ancient Sea of houses and other signs of modern day living that Moyle. All you need is a small stretch of the imagination still has many echoes of its early Christian past and pre-Christian farmers are once again tending their reaching back to the time of St Patrick. Route flocks in the valleys below. follows the concluding stage of one of Europe’s Boyne Valley Camino, Co Louth Croagh Patrick seems, however, to have cornered great medieval paths that led to Lough Derg. It Pilgrimage has been defined as a mindful journey to a place of spiritual significance the market as St Patrick’s devotional mountain, for there concludes at a cross marking the disembarkation and Mellifont Abbey, is certainly of profound significance. Founded in 1142, as the is nothing to represent the strong links between this point for the Augustinian Friary that once existed first Irish Cistercian Abbey, its coming heralded the demise of the long-established striking eminence and Ireland’s national apostle. on Saints island, Lough Derg. Celtic Church as the Cistercian Order spread nationwide. Now the ancient pilgrim Description: A short and enthralling route, but be Description: Easy trail following pilgrim path way route linking Mellifont with the medieval port of Drogheda has been revived. warned; the going is quite steep in places and slippery markers on well-maintained forest tracks with Description: Trail follows the River Boyne before making its way through the serene where wet. It requires the skills of easy grade scrambling to nothing that could really be referred as a hill along woodlands of the Townley Estate and then meandering quiet lanes to Mellifont. A overcome some of the difficulties on ascent and descent the way. No special clothing other than normal separate return route gives a total walk of over 25km. This now counts towards while the path is ill defined in places. Boots should be outdoor wear required. completing the Spanish Camino when following the traditional Irish pilgrim route worn and walking poles could be of help on the descent. Getting there: From Pettigoe village, which lies on from the port of A Coruna to Santiago. Getting there: From the Ballymena bypass take the A42 to the Fermanagh/Donegal border, follow the R233. Note: Since the walk is not yet fully waymarked, you will need the detailed map that Broughshane; Slemish is well signposted from Broughshane. This leads directly to the pilgrimage start point at is available for download from: caminosociety.com Distance: About 2km (Ascent: 200m) Time: Allow Station Island Pier. Start/finish:St Peter’s Church, West Street, Drogheda a little over an hour of walking time to complete both Start/finish: Station Island Pier ascent and descent. Distance: 26km (to Mellifont and back) Time: 6 hours Distance: 12km (return) Time: 3 hours Sli Mór, Co Offaly Initially cycling may seem an oddly incongruous mode of conveyance for a pilgrim Wild Stories from the Irish Uplands path. but pilgrimage traditionally involves all non-mechanised transport and cyclists The Irish Pilgrim Passport by John G. O’Dwyer are commonly encountered on Europe’s penitential trails, along with an assortment of mules, horses and donkeys. So, in the case of the ancient Slí Mór, participants Why not mark down the coming summer to begin that must be completed are: St Kevin’s Way, Cnoc na PRICE: €14.99 have a choice of either walking or cycling to Clonmacnoise which was followed by completing the Irish Pilgrim Passport? The passport dTobar, Cosán na Naomh, Tóchar Phádraig, and St A 01 6874096 | M [email protected] many scholars and pilgrims from Europe seeking enlightenment. requires that participants walk 5 Irish pilgrim paths Finbarr’s Pilgrim Path. Further information on where www.currachbooks.com with a total distance of 125km and produce evidence to obtain a passport is available from pilgrimpath.ie. Description: The route follows much of the great Esker Riada ridge on quiet or send a cheque to: of completing each, in order to receive a pilgrim If you would like the camaraderie of walking a Currach Books, 23 Merrion Square, roads that afford absorbing views. It contains little to challenge even the most stamp, which is available locally. When fully stamped, pilgrim path as part of a group, booking is now open Dublin 2, D02 XE02. casual cyclist or walker. the passport is forwarded to Ballintubber Abbey to for the two-day walk along the St Finbarr’s Pilgrim Start: Ballycumber, Co Offaly which lies on the R436 between Clara and Ferbane St Peter’s Church Nave 1, Drogheda obtain the Teastas (completion certificate) similar to Path which takes place on August 22/23, 2020. Further Source: Wikimedia Commons Distance: 24.5km Time: 1.5 hour leisurely cycle or a 5 hour walk the Compostela for the Spanish Camino. The paths information from pilgrimpath.ie FREE POSTAGE ON ALL ORDERS 22 | The Irish Spirit June 25, 2020

“Wanderer, there is no road, the

road is made Photos taken from the annual St John’s midsummer Mass in 2019 at Killone Abbey and St John’s Well. The event is unable to take place this year by walking” due to Covid restrictions.

O’Brien around 1189 - around about the same time as By Lorna Siggins the Augustinian Clare Abbey several miles away. “The nuns lived in cloister but were involved in anderer, there is no road, the road pastoral work, and their counterparts were in Clare is made by walking” is an oft-quoted Abbey and on Canon island on the Shannon estuary”, observation by late Spanish poet “W Bishop Monahan explained. Antonio Machado. It’s one that might resonate with The abbey was suppressed in 1584, after several “quiet pilgrims”, as in the growing numbers of people attempts at closure, and was in ruins by 1617, but had in recent years who have sought solace in landscape some interesting associations during its brief time as as interest in organised religion has waned. a nunnery. The death of its abbess, Slaney – a sister of Sea routes have a similar appeal, as British writer king of Thomond Donnchadh O’Brien – was recorded Robert Macfarlane has noted in his best-selling in the Annals of Inishfallen in 1259. book, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Although The nunnery was valued at “two marks” in 1302 he believed the words ‘pilgrim’ and “pilgrimage” had Papal taxation records, and the last will and testament become “tainted with a tiresome piety”, Macfarlane said of another abbess, Renalda O’Brien, is listed in the he had met many” inspiring and modest improvisers” Ormond Deeds. Its last known abbess was Lady on his travels. Honora O’Brien, who had pursued a religious calling He wrote of the couple he had encountered along at Killone when young, but then eloped with Sir Roger the moor paths on the Scottish isle of Lewis, and the O’Shaughnessy. man “sailing his sea roads through storm and sunshine”. The couple had children before the Pope gave rounds are associated with a pilgrim route to Ennis town. An inscription notes There were the three folk singers who sold all their dispensation for their marriage. When Killone Abbey that the altar was last repaired by an Ennis merchant, Anthony Roche, in 1731. possessions and took to the paths of England, sleeping was dissolved, it was granted to Honora’s father, the first The well is location for annual outdoor mass on June 23rd, the eve of the in woods and earning food by performing the music Earl of Thomond Murrough O’Brien who died in 1551. feast of St John at Killone’s holy well, which Bishop Monahan has celebrated on they acquired along the way... “Since that time it has been a place of pilgrimage two occasions since his appointment to Killaloe. Had the same three singers taken to walking the for local people, and people have asked to be buried “We would have several hundred people in here at the Pattern,”he recalled, Irish Atlantic coast, they might have been fortunate here too as you can see from the graveyard,” Bishop surveying the natural sanctuary created by the centuries old woodland and enough to experience the rich birdsong symphonies Monahan said, pointing to the ornate Late Romanesque moss-coated stone walls. in the woods around Co Clare’s Killone Abbey. east window in the remains of the church. “We would seat the older people here near the altar, then the younger families They might have marvelled at the fortune of The National Monuments Service also lists some behind and around the sides, and the musicians just over here near the well.” Augustinian nuns who passed their cloistered lives other interesting features in the complex. These include “This year, it has had to be very different – with a recorded Mass streamed there in a verdant valley, overlooking a tranquil lake an intramural (within the building walls) stair to the online. No doubt there will still be people visiting, but St John’s feast comes bordered by fissured limestone. And they might have church’s parapet incorporated within the east window, just before the opening of churches again for religious worship on June 29th.” made a wish, or said a prayer, or both at the well named and a decorative stone quoin in the shape of a woman’s This year will also be remembered for the prolonged drought, which has after “Eoghan” of Cill Eoghan, as in St John the Baptist head and arms, which appears to support the church, left the well at Killone completely dry. and purported to have a cure for ailments of the eye. on the external south-east corner. “I tend to visit it regularly, right throughout the year as it is an accessible bike The Abbey The Well ride from Ennis, and I love to go there to commune with nature and soak up the Killone Abbey, which is a national monument, was one It is a short walk down from the nunnery to the ancient ecclesiastical atmosphere and the prayerfulness that echoes in the walls of only three existing cloistered nunneries in Ireland, lakeshore where St John’s Well is found. The original of stone and down in the well area,”Bishop Monahan said. according to Bishop of Killaloe Fintan Monahan, who altar is “topped” with several “cursing stones”, which Killone is one of several locations featured in a series of videos which knows it well. On a recent walk there, he spoke of how kept a count of the pilgrims’ rounds made at the well. Bishop Monahan has made in recent weeks during the Covid-19 pandemic the land was donated by the king of Munster, Donal Mór As the National Monuments Service states, these – focusing on places in and around Ennis, while travelling limits were in place. 22 | The Irish Spirit June 25, 2020 June 25, 2020 The Irish Spirit ||23

He provided his own narrative, and posted them on “By assimilating such cultic places, the new Christian YouTube and Vimeo. churches helped to preserve them into our own “It was just an idea that I stumbled on during the time,”Healy wrote. She indexed and matched the wells time of lockdown. Most of the ones I have done are with their reputed cures – beginning alphabetically with very local, but the diocese is full of ancient religious sites aching limbs and arthritis, catered for by the Ogulla well “Wanderer, there and I intend to get round to a lot more as the travel near Tulsk in Co Roscommon, named after Oigh-Ghiolla, restrictions are gradually lifted,”he said. a 6th century saint. As late writer Elizabeth Healy observed , each holy The recent pandemic may have aroused more well has its own “station” or features and prescribed interest in holy wells and sacred places, but many around ritual which involves taking a sup of water or pouring the island are falling into disrepair, according to Burren is no road, the a little over a wound. During research for her book, walking guide and author Tony Kirby. In Search of Holy Wells (Wolfhound Press, 2001) “I feel that, generally speaking, the holy well sites in the late 1990s, she noted how extensive water’s have been in freefall since the 1800s,”said Kirby, who is sacred significance still is at the beginning of the third researching a new book on the subject. millennium. Photos taken from the annual “However, there are two locations on the Burren road is made “ All the great civilisations of the world have arisen St John’s midsummer Mass where there has been renewed interest and an increase Trees form an integral part of holy well rituals. Rag trees, where pieces in 2019 at Killone Abbey and where there is water. Wars are still fought for control of in visitors – St Colman MacDuagh’s hermitage among of clothing represent an illness requiring a cure were tied, are often close by. St John’s Well. The event is water. Small wonder then that it is not only our bodies unable to take place this year mature ash and hazel woodland at the base of Eagle’s that respond to its power, but also our imaginations and Kirby likes the phrase “culturally modified trees” to describe their significance. due to Covid restrictions. rock, where St Colman lived in the sixth century, and even our souls...”she wrote. Not only are they bedecked in pieces of clothing, but many of these rag trees by walking” Teampall Chronáin near the village of Carron,”he said. bear strings, ribbons, rosaries and medals. Sacred Waters “There is also a holy well dedicated to St Colman Water cults have been “universal throughout time” and MacDuagh near Kinvara, Co Galway, where visitors Tara the great sacred rivers of the Nile and Ganges have have increased, but this may be due to the Wild Atlantic Latterly, hawthorns or “wishing trees” on the Hill of Tara in Co Meath, have rituals “associated with the whole life cycle of the peoples Way,”Kirby noted. become the focus of “love objects”. This has prompted the Tara Skryne O’Brien around 1189 - around about the same time as By Lorna Siggins who live along their pathways”, she wrote - noting that Another location, St Brigid’s Well in Liscannor, Co the Augustinian Clare Abbey several miles away. Preservation Group to appeal to visitors to stop “suffocating” them with traditional water rites can be found in every culture, Clare, has become increasingly popular, and is very well “The nuns lived in cloister but were involved in objects. Coins have even been hammered into the bark, causing fungal disease. anderer, there is no road, the road ranging from rain-making to healing and fertility and tended by the Considine family who live nearby. pastoral work, and their counterparts were in Clare As Healy noted, certain trees were sacred to the Celts, with oak, holly, is made by walking” is an oft-quoted “down to such simple practises as bathing our faces in “It has an extraordinary number of offerings, and Abbey and on Canon island on the Shannon estuary”, hazel and whitethorn being the most sacred. The oldest Gaelic alphabet is observation by late Spanish poet the dew of May mornings”. this could be partly due to its proximity to the Cliffs of “W Bishop Monahan explained. based on associations with trees, including birch, rowan and ash, she wrote. Antonio Machado. It’s one that might resonate with Healy traced some 3,000 holy wells recorded in Ireland, Moher, and members of the Travelling community also The abbey was suppressed in 1584, after several Jesuit priest, sociologist and writer Fr Micheál MacGréil is responsible “quiet pilgrims”, as in the growing numbers of people with at least 40 in the “waterless” limestone landscape of feel far more at ease visiting locations like this,”he says. attempts at closure, and was in ruins by 1617, but had for reviving one particular pilgrim ritual which attracts hundreds every year in recent years who have sought solace in landscape the Burren, and 163 placenames with the word “tobar” or Dr Máire MacNeill had described the Liscannor some interesting associations during its brief time as – Máméan. Like this year’s Croagh Patrick pilgrimage, it has been officially as interest in organised religion has waned. versions of same in the Irish Townlands Index. well as “one of the three most strongly lasting survivals a nunnery. The death of its abbess, Slaney – a sister of Sea routes have a similar appeal, as British writer Not all wells are dedicated to saints, with pin wells, of Lughnasa”, the festival marking the beginning of the postponed by the Tuam archdiocese due to Covid-19. king of Thomond Donnchadh O’Brien – was recorded rag wells, healing wells and wells with particular healing harvest season – the other two being the Croagh Patrick Máméan -Irish for “the pass of the birds” - was also associated with the Robert Macfarlane has noted in his best-selling in the Annals of Inishfallen in 1259. qualities named after pagan deities. pilgrimage in Mayo and the Puck Fair in Kerry. Lughnasa festivals. It is said to have been visited by St Patrick during his travels, book, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Although The nunnery was valued at “two marks” in 1302 and it is marked by a holy well, St Patrick’s Bed, a cleft in the rock and stone he believed the words ‘pilgrim’ and “pilgrimage” had Papal taxation records, and the last will and testament circles representing the Stations of the Cross. Its mass rock was used during become “tainted with a tiresome piety”, Macfarlane said of another abbess, Renalda O’Brien, is listed in the he had met many” inspiring and modest improvisers” Ormond Deeds. Its last known abbess was Lady As late writer Elizabeth Healy observed , each the time of the Penal Laws. on his travels. Honora O’Brien, who had pursued a religious calling holy well has its own “station” or features and Faction fights and poitín are said to have been main reasons for abandonment He wrote of the couple he had encountered along at Killone when young, but then eloped with Sir Roger of the annual pilgrimage by the church at the end of the 19th century. the moor paths on the Scottish isle of Lewis, and the O’Shaughnessy. prescribed ritual which involves taking a sup of water or Bishop Monahan, who formerly served in the Tuam archdiocese, has man “sailing his sea roads through storm and sunshine”. The couple had children before the Pope gave climbed Máméan “hundreds of times”, along with Croagh Patrick, and has There were the three folk singers who sold all their rounds are associated with a pilgrim route to Ennis town. An inscription notes dispensation for their marriage. When Killone Abbey pouring a little over a wound” participated in the annual pilgrimage to MacDara’s island, where a mass is possessions and took to the paths of England, sleeping that the altar was last repaired by an Ennis merchant, Anthony Roche, in 1731. was dissolved, it was granted to Honora’s father, the first celebrated at the oratory in mid-July. The well is location for annual outdoor mass on June 23rd, the eve of the in woods and earning food by performing the music Earl of Thomond Murrough O’Brien who died in 1551. feast of St John at Killone’s holy well, which Bishop Monahan has celebrated on “I also love Canon island in the Shannon estuary, Holy island in Lough they acquired along the way... “Since that time it has been a place of pilgrimage two occasions since his appointment to Killaloe. Derg and Scattery island off Kilrush,”he said. Had the same three singers taken to walking the for local people, and people have asked to be buried “We would have several hundred people in here at the Pattern,”he recalled, This year, due to the Covid-19 restrictions, Fr La is offering a “virtual” Irish Atlantic coast, they might have been fortunate here too as you can see from the graveyard,” Bishop surveying the natural sanctuary created by the centuries old woodland and retreat to Donegal’s Lough Derg from June 27th to 29th, by clicking on the enough to experience the rich birdsong symphonies Monahan said, pointing to the ornate Late Romanesque moss-coated stone walls. “three day pilgrimage” option on its website. in the woods around Co Clare’s Killone Abbey. east window in the remains of the church. “We would seat the older people here near the altar, then the younger families They might have marvelled at the fortune of The National Monuments Service also lists some Bishop Monahan recalled the observations of a film-maker, quoted by behind and around the sides, and the musicians just over here near the well.” Augustinian nuns who passed their cloistered lives other interesting features in the complex. These include Fr MacGréil, in relation to pilgrimage sites in Ireland. His impression was that “This year, it has had to be very different – with a recorded Mass streamed there in a verdant valley, overlooking a tranquil lake an intramural (within the building walls) stair to the “Lough Derg was the most penitential, Croagh Patrick was the most physical, online. No doubt there will still be people visiting, but St John’s feast comes bordered by fissured limestone. And they might have church’s parapet incorporated within the east window, but Máméan was the most spiritual...” just before the opening of churches again for religious worship on June 29th.” made a wish, or said a prayer, or both at the well named and a decorative stone quoin in the shape of a woman’s “Dawn masses, pilgrim walks, holy wells, sacred mountains and the This year will also be remembered for the prolonged drought, which has after “Eoghan” of Cill Eoghan, as in St John the Baptist head and arms, which appears to support the church, celebration of Pattern days have a very important role in attracting a left the well at Killone completely dry. and purported to have a cure for ailments of the eye. on the external south-east corner. certain type of person who might otherwise have little interest in matters “I tend to visit it regularly, right throughout the year as it is an accessible bike religious,”Bishop Monahan said. The Abbey The Well ride from Ennis, and I love to go there to commune with nature and soak up the “ There is something special about the mix of the sacred and the beauty Killone Abbey, which is a national monument, was one It is a short walk down from the nunnery to the ancient ecclesiastical atmosphere and the prayerfulness that echoes in the walls of only three existing cloistered nunneries in Ireland, lakeshore where St John’s Well is found. The original of stone and down in the well area,”Bishop Monahan said. of nature,” he says, and for some it is a much easier “encounter with God”. according to Bishop of Killaloe Fintan Monahan, who altar is “topped” with several “cursing stones”, which Killone is one of several locations featured in a series of videos which knows it well. On a recent walk there, he spoke of how kept a count of the pilgrims’ rounds made at the well. Bishop Monahan has made in recent weeks during the Covid-19 pandemic Bishop Monahan’s YouTube video on Killone Abbey and St John’s Well can be the land was donated by the king of Munster, Donal Mór As the National Monuments Service states, these – focusing on places in and around Ennis, while travelling limits were in place. viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwAcC3EOrw0 24 | The Irish Spirit June 25, 2020

Pilgrimage to St Mullins during the Black Death

Remains of the Medieval millrace at St Mullen’s, Co. Carlow. Photo: Louise Nugent

This year, and chiefly in the months of By September and October, great numbers of bishops and prelates, ecclesiastical and Louise Nugent religious, peers and others, and in general people of both sexes, flocked together by troops to the pilgrimage and wading of hroughout the medieval period the water at Tigh Moling [St Mullins] so many people made pilgrimage in that many thousands might be seen there times of crisis such as personal T together for many days; some came out of illness, outbreaks of disease and natural devotion, but the greater part for fear of the disasters like drought. The Black Death was pestilence which raged at that time with great one of the biggest crisis to be faced by people violence….” ( Williams 2007, 246). during the fourteenth century in Ireland. The pilgrims made their prayers at St The Annals of Ireland written between Moling’s holy well and millrace located just 1333-1349 by John Clyn, a Franciscan friar of outside the main monastic enclosure. The Kilkenny, contains a chilling first hand account twelfth Latin Life of St Moling, recalls how of the Black Death as it raged through Ireland. the saint single handed dug the mill race The text also records a very rare account over seven years and then consecrated ‘…by of pilgrimage to the ecclesiastical site of St walking through it against the flood…’. The St Moling’s Well, Co. Carlow. Photo: Louise Nugent Mullins whose ruins are now at the centre pilgrims hoped that by washing or ‘wading’ in of a picturesque village of the same name the waters of the millrace and the holy well amazing year was outside the usual order of holy well is still a focus of modern pilgrimage in Co. Carlow. they would be protected from the plague. We things, exceptional in quite contradictory ways on the second Sunday of July. If anyone The ecclesiastical site of St Mullins traces do not know how the pilgrims fared in the – abundantly fertile and yet at the same time wants to find out more about the medieval its history back to the seventh century, when coming months how many died or survived. sickly and deadly… It was very rare for just pilgrimage at St Mullins check out my new St Moling founded a monastery on the banks book Journeys of Faith. Stories of Pilgrimage The plague spread rapidly after its arrival one person to die in a house, usually, husband, of the river Barrow. Following the saints death to Ireland. In June of 1349 Clyn wrote that in Medieval Ireland. wife, children and servants all went the same his monastery went on to become one of the pestilence was so contagious that those way, the way of death… (Williams 2007, 250). the most importance pilgrim sites in Leinster. who ‘touched the dead or the sick were Louise Nugent is an archaeologist and curates St Moling’s holy well along with the In the year in 1348 John Clyn recorded immediately affected themselves and died’. the popular blog Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland. great numbers of pilgrims arriving at St Mullins. Shortly after writing the description below medieval millrace can still be seen in the Her latest book, Journeys of Faith is published The pilgrims were drawn here because of St Clyn contracted the disease and died. modern landscape at St Mullins. St Moling’s by Columba Books. Moling reputation for healing and miracles. Many died of boils, abscesses and pustules They hoped that by praying to the saint in the which erupted on the legs and in the armpits. Journeys of Faith presence of his relics they might be protected Others died in frenzy, brought on by an by Louise Nugent from the plague. affliction of the head, or vomiting blood. This PRICE: €26.99 A 01 6874096 | M [email protected] The ecclesiastical site of St Mullins www.columbabooks.com or send a cheque to: Columba Books, traces its history back to the seventh 23 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, D02 XE02. century, when St Moling founded a monastery on the banks of the river Barrow” FREE POSTAGE ON ALL ORDERS The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | International analysis ||25

Our Catholic churches seldomly prove to be different and in too many places foster a narrative of white superiority and prominence. When black Catholics show up for Mass, they are greeted with art that seldomly resembles them and congregations led by white priests who rarely speak to the experience of black Catholics in this country out of fear of making their congregations uncomfortable. According to official data, there are 37,302 active priests in the US, with only 250 identified as African American, or 0.7% of the total number. Only two dioceses in the country are led by black Catholic bishops. This underrepresentation can’t change overnight, but it should at least be made a priority. Until then, it’s all the more important that US Church leaders follow the example of individuals like Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas.

If we are honest, racism❛❛ is really about advancing, shoring up and failing to oppose a system of white privilege” Bishop Seitz, whose ministry is on the Mexican border, has become a leading champion of migrants in this country, but his witness for Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, kneels at El Paso’s Memorial Park holding a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign. After ‘taking a knee’ during that the cause of life and justice is no demonstration in solidarity with George Floyd – an unarmed black man who spent several minutes under a Minnesota police officer’s knee before less vociferous when it comes to becoming unconscious and later dying – the bishop received a call from Pope Francis. Photo: CNS unborn human life. Yet as a white Catholic whose flock is mostly brown, he understands the need to confront our sins by first honestly naming them and he knows this is a moment that calls for such a Our Churches are rarely witness. “If we are honest, racism is really about advancing, shoring up and failing to oppose a system of white privilege and advantage exceptions to America’s based on skin colour,” he wrote last autumn. “When this system begins to shape our public choices, structure our common life together original sin of racism and becomes a tool of class, this is rightly called institutionalised spiritual We Shall Overcome. was a black man and simply noted marked a banner year racism.” Yet on May 25, when George that he was an individual killed by for the US Church in That sort of moral consistency 2019 Floyd, an unarmed black man, terms of race relations, or so I had police. led him to become the first Catholic was killed by a police officer who thought. bishop to join with protestors after pressed his knee on Mr Floyd’s neck Washington, DC, the nation’s There are 37,302 Floyd’s death, taking a knee in while other officers looked on as capital and a long-time bastion of ❛❛ prayer while holding up a ‘Black African American heritage, received he pleaded “I can’t breathe” – and active priests in the US, Lives Matter’ sign. its first ever black archbishop as the scene was filmed in a now with only 250 identified Days later, he would reflect through the appointment of Wilton viral nine-minute video painfully on his experience, writing: “Look Gregory, the long-time leader of capturing the life drain out of his as African American” at the witness of those who are Atlanta, Georgia. To punctuate the body – it made abundantly clear bravely taking up their parts in the appointment, it was announced Letter from America just how much work remains in Naming the sin of racism is an initial first step on the road to drama of salvation unfolding in on the very anniversary of the civil the cause for racial justice, for all front of us…they are showing us rights crusader Martin Luther King Christopher White people, but one that should be justice but even that seems to be a challenge for some Catholics — what the reign of God looks like Jr’s tragic assassination. championed by Catholics in the US and what our country can look like this, the US bishops had adopted hence the reticence of so many to Just a few weeks before that, with a particular vigour. when we all have a place at the the first collective pastoral letter join the chorus of those saying, when Bishop David Talley was table. Let’s encourage them. And on racism in nearly 40 years, unequivocally, that ‘Black Lives installed as the new Bishop of Aftermath pray with them. And thank them. titled ‘Open Wide Our Hearts: Matter’. Their reasonings, they Memphis, Tennessee, the day after ‘We shall overcome’ indeed, we “With grace,” he continued, The Enduring Call to Love’, and at say, is that the institutional Black that Mass in his first public outing, hope, but we should be under no “they are joining the living ranks of that same meeting voted to put Lives Matter movement is not in he toured the city’s National Civil illusions that we have. America’s a long faith tradition of labourers forward the cause for canonisation full agreement with the Church on Rights Museum. original sin of racism plagues the for greater justice, like Moses, Jesus of Sr Thea Bowman, a trailblazing “It was an extraordinary two- nation and our churches have issues of sexuality or they point to of Nazareth, Joan of Arc, Harriet hour immersion in the evil of African American religious who rarely proven to be an exception. fringe voices within the movement. Beecher Stowe, James Earl Chaney, slavery, its institutional character, was the first black woman ever to In the aftermath of Mr Floyd’s “Let me introduce you to Oscar Romero, Thea Bowman and the disastrous effects seen through address the US bishops before her death, some Catholic media outlets some of the fringe voices in the so many others. Thank God. Thank the generations, and the children death in 1990, famously leading in the US couldn’t bring themselves pro-life movement,” quipped God.” and teens and adults that affected them in a collective singing of the to even mention that Mr Floyd one conservative black Catholic Amen. great change in our nation in their on Twitter in response to such a suffering,” he tweeted after leaving Some Catholic media outlets in the remark, noting that some pro- i Christopher White is the the museum, which is on the site of ❛❛ lifers advocate for violence against national correspondent for the the Lorraine Hotel where Rev. King US couldn’t bring themselves to even abortion facilities but they are not National Catholic Reporter and is was killed. allowed to define the movement as based in New York. Follow him on A few months prior to all of mention that Mr Floyd was a black man” a whole. Twitter @CWWhite212. 26 | International news || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 World Report IN BRIEF Covid-19 hits Yemen’s Pope criticises ‘hypocrisy’ of hospitals hard l CAFOD and other humanitarian agencies warn that Yemen’s health care system, already ravaged by five years of civil politicians during pandemic war, is collapsing, while its people risk famine as the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country struggles with the coronavirus In a reflection offered to BBC pandemic. Rethink, a series asking how “Yemen is desperate for peace,” Lise Grande, the UN society can change for the humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said of the world’s worst better after the Covid-19 cri- humanitarian crisis in which 24 million people have no choice sis, Pope Francis has warned but to depend on international aid. the poor have “become part of A June 2 donors’ pledging conference raised only a little over the landscape”. half of the $2.41 billion needed to cover essential aid until the The Pope [pictured] was year end, leaving a gap of more than $1 billion. speaking in Spanish with a voiceover provided by the Bishop criticises relaxing BBC and was provided by the Vatican for the series, Sunday trading laws but taken from an interview l A bishop has urged Christians to speak out against plans to Francis gave to his biographer relax Sunday trading laws in the UK as the economy reels from Austen Ivereigh in April. the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. “This coronavirus crisis is In a June 21 homily at Shrewsbury Cathedral, Bishop Mark affecting us all, rich and poor Davies criticized the government’s intention to lift the current alike, and putting a spotlight six-hour limit on Sunday trading. on hypocrisy. I am worried by “As we emerge from lockdown, it is regrettable that the the hypocrisy of certain polit- government is considering removing the remaining legal ical personalities who speak protections of Sunday in order to make it a full trading day,” the of facing up to the crisis, of bishop of Shrewbury said. the problem of hunger in the world, but who in the mean- Cardinal George Pell’s time manufacture weapons,” the Pontiff said. prison diary to be published “This is a time to be con- world. We need to reconnect We don’t give them the right less of ourselves and more l The publisher of the verted from this kind of func- with our real surroundings. to dream of their mothers. of the systems we inhabit prison diary of Cardinal tional hypocrisy. It’s a time for This is the opportunity for They don’t know what affec- whether natural or economic. George Pell [pictured] said integrity. Either we are coher- conversion,” he explained. tion is, many live on drugs. In that regard it was a call that the text reveals the courage, ent with our beliefs or we lose And to see them can help us reaches far beyond Catholi- conviction and Christian everything.” Crisis to discover the piety, which cism to something universal: charity of the cardinal. Francis said every crisis The Pope also said the crisis is points towards God and our capacity to be selfless”. “This journal reveals the contains both danger and a “moment to see the poor”. towards our neighbour,” he BBC Rethink is scheduled Cardinal Pell I know and opportunity. “We can’t settle for a wel- added. to present the reflections of that every Faithful Catholic “Today I believe we have fare policy such as we have for During the programme, over 30 different thinkers, should get to know,” Fr. to slow down our rate of pro- rescued animals which is how the BBC’s Amol Rajan said including former US Ambas- Joseph Fessio, SJ, of duction and consumption the poor are often treated,” the Pope’s message “argues sador to the Holy See Saman- Ignatius Press said over the and to learn to understand Francis said. for a radical recalibration of tha Power and billionaire weekend. and contemplate the natural “We disempower the poor. our priorities, so we think George Soros. Pell “proclaimed Christ and the Church’s moral teachings without fear and with full knowledge of what ‘Take action’ to promote religious the cost would be. And he The publisher expects to paid the price with good publish in spring 2021 either humor and, like Christ, a an abridged version of Pell’s love of his enemies,” Fessio prison journal or the first freedom, say US bishops added. volume of the full text. The US bishops are urging Catholics to day of the week highlights a different “Engaging in the public square is an “pray, reflect and take action” on reli- issue, and the materials include related integral part of our life in Christ and our Covid-19 solidarity should gious liberty in the United States and lectionary notes, promotional bulletin baptismal responsibility,” he told the extend to refugees – Caritas abroad during Religious Freedom Week, inserts, and graphics and social media Arlington Catholic Herald, newspaper of which runs from June 22-29. downloads. the Diocese of Arlington. l People around the world have practiced solidarity during the The first day of the observance is Catholics are “called to make a dif- the feast of Ss Thomas More and John pandemic, and they should do the same for refugees, Catholic Essential ference for the common good,” he said. humanitarian leaders said on World Refugee Day. Fisher, both martyred for their Catholic “What’s really essential is to be able to “Whether it involves health plans or “COVID-19 has taught us an important lesson, the need faith. make decisions that are consistent with adoption and foster care, our beliefs for global solidarity to fight against any thing that affects The US Conference of Catholic Bish- our beliefs,” said Jeff F. Caruso, found- humanity,” said Aloysius John, the secretary general for Caritas ops has prepared materials – in Spanish ing director of the Virginia Catholic and our services go together – they’re International, in advance of World Refugee Day on June 20. and English – about current issues and Conference in Richmond, which tracks animated by the same faith. What we’re “This year, 2020, must lead us to a new way of responding to challenges to religious freedom that are current state legislation and spearheads talking about is the freedom to serve the refugees and their plight,” he said. available at https://bit.ly/3hNYfTU. Each advocacy efforts. consistent with our beliefs.” Polish Church celebrates Pope Lockdown ‘increasing grooming risk of children online’ St John Paul II’s baptism The increased screen time and restrictions has had similar and so many options avail- them online, he said. l The Church in Poland will celebrate the centenary of the isolation due to quarantine consequences in which young able for interacting online “We have to educate about baptism of St John Paul II Saturday. measures or restrictions dur- people are spending a lot with others, “pornographic protecting the dignity and The future Pope was baptised on June 20, 1920, in the ing the Covid-19 pandemic more time at home, “alone, material also becomes more respect of vulnerable people, Chapel of the Holy Family of the Basilica of the Presentation of have put vulnerable minors at online with no supervision or accessible” to predators and especially young people.” the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wadowice, southern Poland. greater risk of grooming and being checked on”, said Jesuit to children who have no lim- Fr Zollner is also a profes- When he returned to the basilica in 1999, Pope John Paul abuse online, a Jesuit safe- Fr Hans Zollner, a member of its on what they can access sor of psychology and presi- II said: “With profound veneration I...embrace the threshold of the house of God, the parish church of Wadowice, and in it the guarding expert said. the Pontifical Commission for and no guidance on what they dent of the Centre for Child baptistery, in which I was joined to Christ and received into the Almost every nation that the Protection of Minors. should do to protect them- Protection at the Pontifical community of his Church.” has had lockdowns or other With increased screen time selves from people contacting Gregorian University in Rome. 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Build new future with Laudato Si’ say Vatican panelists l The coronavirus pandemic and ongoing global crises clearly indicate that Pope Francis’ encyclical on caring for creation urgently needs to be implemented worldwide, a panel of church leaders said. “After Covid-19, nothing will be the same,” Aloysius John, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, said last week at a Vatican news conference unveiling a new document. “As Pope Francis said, it is time to build a new future and this new future must be built in the light of Laudato Si’. It is time for everyone, governments and civil societies, to make that conversion effort to which the Holy Father exhorts us in this prophetic encyclical,” he said. John was one of several speakers at the news conference to present the document ‘Journeying Toward Care for Our Common Home. Five Years after Laudato Si’ ’. Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister, said the pandemic “has highlighted many, many things, many, many areas in which we have a lot of work to do”. “The question is whether we are going to pick up on these questions” and work to address them, he said at the news conference. Retired Pope Benedict XVI visits brother in Germany Retired Pope Benedict who cares for him and XVI, who is 93 years old, his household, a doctor, travelled to Germany to a nurse and the vice visit his ailing older brother, commander of the Vatican Retired pope Benedict XVI visits his parents’ grave in Regensburg, Germany, June 20. Photo: CNS Msgr Georg Ratzinger, gendarme corps, Bruni who is 96. said. The Vatican press The two brothers, who office confirmed that Pope were ordained to the Benedict went to Germany priesthood together in Court rules against President on June 18 to visit his 1951, have always been brother. close. “The Pope emeritus While his brother was Trump’s plan to end DACA is now in the city of Pope and even after he In one of the most anticipated cases college, get health insurance, a driver’s of the US Conference of Catholic Regensburg, where he will of the term, the Supreme Court license and not face deportation. These Bishops, and Washington Auxiliary spend the time necessary,” stepped down from the ruled against efforts by the Trump young adults were brought to the US as Bishop Mario Dorsonville, chairman of said Matteo Bruni, director papacy, Msgr Ratzinger administration to end the Deferred children by their parents without legal the USCCB’s Committee on Migration. of the Vatican press office. would come to the Vatican Action for Childhood Arrivals program, documentation. The bishops urged the president Pope Benedict was to spend Christmas and a known as DACA. “We welcome the US Supreme to “strongly reconsider terminating accompanied by his summer holiday with his In a 5-4 decision, the court said Court’s decision noting that the Trump DACA”, noting that “immigrant personal secretary, brother. the Trump administration’s actions in administration did not follow proper communities are really hurting now Archbishop Georg The two also had a rescinding the program were “arbitrary administrative procedures required amidst Covid-19 and moving forward Ganswein, one of the sister, Maria, who died in and capricious”. to repeal the DACA programme,” said with this action needlessly places consecrated laywomen 1991. Last November, the court examined a statement by the US Conference of many families into further anxiety and three separate appellate court rulings Catholic Bishops. chaos”. that blocked President Donald Trump’s “To DACA youth, through today’s They also urged US senators to Global rosary sees prayers 2017 executive order to end DACA, a decision and beyond, we will continue “immediately pass legislation that offered for Pope programme that started in 2012 by to accompany you and your families. provides a path to citizenship for l A global rosary initiative dedicated to praying for priests executive order under the Obama You are a vital part of our Church and ‘Dreamers’. Permanent legislative offered prayers from around the world for Pope Francis. administration. It has enabled about our community of faith. We are with protection that overcomes partisanship The annual Global Rosary Relay last week was 700,000 qualifying young people, you,” said the statement by Archbishop and puts the human dignity and future sponsored by the Worldpriest Global Apostolate and was to described as ‘Dreamers’, to work, go to Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, president of ‘Dreamers’ first is long overdue.” include a gathering of people on Zoom video chat platform praying for the Pope’s intentions, said a statement from the apostolate. BLM movement inspires Myanmar anti-racism campaign According to its website, the Worldpriest Global Apostolate was founded by Marion Mulhall in 2003 to “affirm With anti-racism protests But today the K-word is often A group of young activ- the activists. He said the the dignity, beauty and gift of the priesthood of Jesus Christ gripping the United States used as a racist term for peo- ists started the anti-racism campaign aims to highlight to humanity”. and other countries, young ple with dark skin. campaign by changing their racism in Myanmar. “Does the The day was also inspired by St John Paul II’s activists in Myanmar see profile pictures. They told Indian community accept this establishment of the World Day of Prayer for the it as the right time to chal- said they were inspired by word? The problem is privi- Hatred Sanctification of Priests on the feast of the Sacred Heart of lenge racism in the Buddhist- The word has helped fuel the Black Lives Matter move- leged people who don’t see Jesus on June 19. majority country. hatred against the Rohingya, ment protests that rippled this as an issue,” Zay Linn said. “The idea is a simple one: each of the participating Launching a campaign a long-persecuted Muslim globally following the death He said the term also has shrines around the world prays a particular mystery of the called ‘Don’t call me ‘Kalar’’ minority who are denied citi- of George Floyd, an unarmed been used to describe Tamils rosary at a particular half-hour in thanksgiving to God for on Facebook, the effort seeks zenship in Myanmar. Thou- black man who died when he and Muslims. Parents often our priests and to implore the protection and loving care of to end the use of a term that sands of Rohingya have been was pinned to the ground by a warn their children that “a big Our Lady, mother of all priests, for all her priestly sons,” the historically referred to people forced to flee to Bangladesh Minnesota police officer. Kalar” will come and get them website said. from the Indian subcontinent. by violent military assaults. Zay Linn Mon is among if they misbehave. 28 | Opinion || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020

Post to: Letters to the Editor, The Irish Catholic, 23 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2, Letters or email: [email protected] Letter of the week Right time to move Clergy must stand against ‘rising tide’ facing schools Dear Editor, I agree fully with your commitment to attend sacraments It is heart-breaking for parents First Communion editor’s comment [IC 11/06/2020]. The for a set period of time before and who are Catholic who have sent Eucharist is the source and summit of after Communion and use that time to their children to Catholic schools and preparation to parishes the Christian life, the alpha and the properly form children and teach them believe in the teachings of the Church Dear Editor, I completely agree with your message about omega if you like. The disrespectful the significance of what they are about to see our Church allow these types of First Holy Communion [IC 11/06/2020] in which you say way it is approached by some should to experience. things to happen under the watch of parents aren’t taking the Sacrament seriously. In my view, not be facilitated or tolerated. Catholic primary schools have been priests on boards of management and which I have expressed privately on many occasions, children I think there is an argument allowed to introduce a very extreme bishops who oversee parishes. should be prepared for the Sacrament within the parish set- for the Church to take First Holy and damaging secular RSE programme I understand that a lot of the clergy ting. Communion out of the hands of (a lot of which runs counter to Church would find standing up against the We can no longer rely on schools to be the primary the primary school management teaching) to schools all over the rising current cultural secular tide place of preparation as it’s becoming increasingly clear – and put in a place a programme country with little or no opposition particularly reading the front page of your latest edition difficult but the love, mercy and that pays proper reverence to this from the Church. We have an [IC 18/06/2020] – that there is going to be a major push to teachings of Jesus Christ have been unbelievable privilege and blessing we incredible situation now where young create a one size fits all model in Irish schools in the term of have received, the word made flesh children in Catholic schools will be around for nearly 2,000 years and have our next government. This will be the next great challenge in body, soul and divinity. The same taught about a range of topics such as always remained the same, yesterday, for the Church in Ireland and being able to hang on to our applies to the sacraments of Baptism, gender identity, pornography, LGBTQ, today and forever. Catholic schools with their valuable ethos alone will surely Confirmation and Marriage. etc… during the week and then be Yours etc., become the next battleground, let alone making sure that The Church could put in place taught a different narrative at mass on Brian O’Hanlon, children within those schools receive adequate teaching and a programme that requires a a Sunday. Dundalk, Co. Louth. formation in preparation of receiving the Sacrament. We must not let children in this age bracket’s spiritual lives suffer because of the politics of modern Ireland, their relationship with Christ must begin at home and be Time to rethink First Holy Communion complemented by our parishes. It is only young people who Dear Editor, With regard to the some role in formation and so should twice a year. Let’s have a rethink. will be able to keep parish life alive in the future. rethinking of Holy Communion article the parish. Yours etc., We must move quickly on this before it’s too late and [IC 11/06/2020], the problem is that it This is not a numbers game that we Henry Halligan, a generation of young people are let down because of our has become too much of a parish thing are happy to see full churches at least Convent Hill, Co. Waterford. failure to prepare. and a school thing. First Holy Commun- Yours etc., ion is that first encounter with Jesus the Cathy Philips, bread of life for the child concerned so Knocklyon, its individual. It should be allowed take Co. Dublin. place at any Mass weekday or Sunday during the week. The emphasis has got to go back to encouraging the child to build Good deeds are one way a personal relationship with Jesus without all the fanfare, it’s about of showing our Faith character building on the values of the Dear Editor, My first impressions of Bairbre Cahill’s article Gospel and not the rigidity of months [IC 11/6/20] on the consequences of Covid-19 for the Church of how to sit and stand and walk up and were positive. However, I later felt uneasy with an aspect that walk down and all the theory that goes with it. Like applying for a Baptism, the seemed to suggest a salvation merited by good works. same procedure should follow for First Bairbre asked “are we open to being evangelised by the Holy Communion and Confirmation an Gospel goodness of so many all around us, of every creed application is made to the parish priest and none?” She goes on to list a number of admirable acts of or parish office. The school should have humanitarian service as ‘holiness’. Any consideration of a saving holiness must begin with the most quoted verse of the Bible: “God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who Resource and strengthen parish communities believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life” Dear Editor, There is a 11/06/2020], just see it as a community that is both faith, parishes are our best John 3:16. woeful disrespect for First day out? It’s reduced to an inviting and supportive. We bet, this is where we should Good deeds are one important way that we show our Communion these days and event based on money, pre- can no longer rely on schools focus resources and post- Faith, our belief in Jesus, is real. it is most certainly because sents and the after party. and it seems they are next Covid-19 perhaps we can As the classical hymn goes: “I will cling to the old rugged parents no longer recognise To reach children and in the line of fire from our begin a rejuvenation that Cross, till my trophies at last I lay down. I will cling to the old its significance. How can show them the freedom ‘benevolent’ new Govern- will flourish and strengthen rugged Cross and exchange it someday for a crown.” we reach children whose and love found in Christ we ment who believe they know Catholic communities. Yours etc., better how to raise children parents have no interest must reach out to parents. Yours etc., Maureen Reilly, in the Church and as you The best way, in my view, than anyone else. For parents Paul Dempsey, Kenmare, said in your editorial [IC is to have a vibrant parish who have lapsed in their Cork City, Co. Cork. Co. Kerry. Corpus Christi processions are for all faiths and none Dear Editor, I refer to Fr Conor gives graces and blessings to all, e.g. to heart of the city for benediction of all, Letters to the Editor McDonough’s article on Corpus Christi the atheists who witnessed the Miracle believers or not. Even the Papal Nuncio All letters should include merits of letters. We do not procession [IC 11/06/2020]. of the Sun in 1917. Public witness is has been a recent homilist. the writer’s full name, postal publish pseudonyms or Some months ago (21st Century!) more relevant now in a diverse culture, Every year visitors pause with address and telephone other formulae to conceal Fr Conor’s order organised a very a very important mission in the heart respect and interest in the Corpus numbers (day and evening). the writer’s identity, such beautiful and public Rosary procession of a city. On just one special day, Corpus Christi procession. Consequently, they Letter writers may receive a as “name and address to commence the Novena to Our Christi, for a short time, Jesus walks on a may respond to grace received on that subsequent telephone call with editor”. We do not Lady of Fatima through the same busy afternoon street blessing whoever day. If they do not share the same faith from The Irish Catholic as print letters addressed commercial heart of the city as the he wishes: the families enjoying the as the priest nor attend his church Jesus part of our authentication to someone else, open annual Eucharistic procession. The Prior Sunday, the shoppers, the deaf, the finds an obvious route to reach and bless process which does not letters, or verse. Letters to distributed flags of the order and large blind, etc. them on an ordinary street at a sacred amount to a commitment to the Editor should only be ‘Pray the Rosary’ posters to the many The commercial world gets this event. These neighbours have every publish. sent to The Irish Catholic, participants. Dramatic? It took place on attention for a while just once a year. right to encounter him in the public We regret that we and not other publications. cannot give prior notice of Letters should not exceed a busy Saturday at 2pm and was highly He unites all in the visible presence of arena and must be facilitated. a letter’s publication date, 300 words and may be respected by ‘neighbours who are not the Eucharist on this special day. Every Yours etc., acknowledge unpublished shortened for space one with us in faith’. parish group from north, south, east and Máire Browne, letters or discuss the requirements. Or Lady is Mother of all nations and west reverently process and unite at the Douglas, Co. Cork. The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | The week in pictures ||29 Around the world

▲ MYANMAR: A young woman is pictured near her hostel in Yangon. Young activists in Myanmar have opened a campaign to end the use of the word ‘Kalar’, often used as a racist term for people with dark skin.

▲ UAE: A diver inspects transplanted coral near Dibba Port in Fujairah. Photos: CNS

USA: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and their supporters USA: People in Washington kneel and raise their fists near the Martin Luther King Jr celebrated outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington after the court ruled Memorial on June 19. The date, known as Juneteenth, honours the end to slavery in the US. against ending DACA which was being pushed for by the Trump administration.

VATICAN: Pope Francis meets Attilio Fontana, president of the Lombardy region, during an SPAIN: Cardinal Juan Jose Omella of Barcelona, in procession with his crosier, arrives to audience with doctors, nurses and health care professionals from the region. Lombardy, in celebrate Mass in the Basilica of the Holy Family after it reopened following the relaxation northern Italy, suffered the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the country. of Covid-19 restrictions. 30 | Spirituality || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020

Society’s deep failure in charity t Eugene de Mazenod, sometimes sparked its antithesis. or religious ground. But the Gospel the founder of the (It still does.) He sometimes never allows for that. It never lets Missionary Oblates of Mary triggered hatred in people, but he us bracket charity and it refuses us Immaculate, the Religious never hated in return. Instead, he permission to justify our bitterness Congregation to which I belong, left Fr Rolheiser wept in empathy, understanding on moral and religious grounds. usS with these last words as he lay that sometimes the message of The Gospel calls us to a love, an dying: “Among yourselves, charity, love and inclusivity triggers hatred empathy and a forgiveness that charity, charity.” I don’t always inside of those who for whatever truth, decency, justice, God, family, about him losing his temper and reach across every divide so as to live that, though I wish I could, reason at that time cannot fully church, right dogma, right practice using whips to drive the money- wish good and do good precisely especially today. bear the word love. and Christ. changers out of the temple? to those who hate us. And it We are in a bitter time. It would be hard to argue that Indeed, what about his statement: categorically forbids rationalising Everywhere there is anger, this kind of energy issues forth “I have come to bring fire to this The Gospel never hatred in its name or in the name condemnation of others, and from God’s spirit and does not Earth?” ❛❛ of truth, justice or right dogma. bitter disagreement; so much so lets us bracket charity...” The late Michael J. Buckley, that today we are simply unable source itself elsewhere. These statements are Looking at Jesus we see that all perennially misinterpreted and As well, the incident of him looking at the bitter polarisation in to have a reasonable discussion driving the money-changers out of our churches, suggests that nothing on any sensitive political, moral, his energies were directed towards used falsely to rationalise our lack the temple, forever falsely cited to justifies our current bitterness: or doctrinal issue. We demonise unity. Jesus never preached hatred, of genuine Christian love. When justify our anger and judgement “The sad fact stands, however, that each other to the point where any as is clear from the Sermon on Jesus says that he has come to of others, has a very different it is frequently no great trick to get attempt to actually reason with the Mount, as is illustrated in his bring fire to this Earth and wishes emphasis and meaning. His action religious men and women to turn each other (let alone to reach great priestly prayer for unity in it were already blazing, the fire as he cleanses the temple of the on one another in some terrible agreement or compromise) mostly John’s Gospel, and as is evident he is referring to is not the fire people who were (legitimately) form of condemnation. Wars, just deepens the hostility. If you in his frequent warnings to us to of division but the fire of love. exchanging Jewish currency even personal wars, are terrible doubt this, simply watch the be patient with each other, to not Jesus made a vow of love, not of for foreign money in order let realities, and the most horrible of newscasts any evening, read any judge each other and to forgive alienation. foreigners buy what they needed these are often self-righteously newspaper or follow the discussion each other. His message provoked hateful to offer sacrifice, has to do with religious. For deceived or split off on most moral and religious But one might object: what opposition, but he did not self- him clearing away an obstacle in under the guise of good, under the questions. about Jesus’ own (seemingly) define as a cultural or ecclesial the way of universal access to God, The first thing that is evident is bitter judgments? What about him warrior. He preached and not with anger at some particular rubrics of orthodoxy or liberality, of the naked hatred inside our energy speaking harshly of others? What incarnated only love, and that people. community or of personal freedom, and how we tend to justify it on We frequently ignore the even of holiness itself, factions moral and religious grounds. This When Jesus says that he has come Gospel. Factionalism, tribalism, of men and women can slowly is our protest: we’re fighting for ❛❛ racism, economic self-interest, disintegrate into pettiness or truth, decency, justice, God, family, to bring fire to this Earth and wishes historical difference, historical cynicism or hostility or bitterness. Church, right dogma, right practice, privilege and fear perennially cause In this way the Christian church for Christ himself, so our anger and it were already blazing, the fire he is bitter polarisation and trigger a becomes divided.” hatred are justified. hatred that eats away at the very We need to be careful inside Anger is justified, but hatred referring to is not the fire of division but fabric of community; and that our cultural and religious wars. is an infallible sign that we are hatred perennially justifies itself There is never an excuse for lack of acting in a manner contrary to the fire of love” by appealing to some high moral fundamental charity. 30 | Spirituality || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020

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Page 34 LifestyleThe Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 Healthy snacking Society’s deep failure in charity t Eugene de Mazenod, sometimes sparked its antithesis. or religious ground. But the Gospel the founder of the (It still does.) He sometimes never allows for that. It never lets Missionary Oblates of Mary triggered hatred in people, but he us bracket charity and it refuses us Immaculate, the Religious never hated in return. Instead, he permission to justify our bitterness Congregation to which I belong, left Fr Rolheiser wept in empathy, understanding on moral and religious grounds. usS with these last words as he lay that sometimes the message of The Gospel calls us to a love, an dying: “Among yourselves, charity, love and inclusivity triggers hatred empathy and a forgiveness that charity, charity.” I don’t always inside of those who for whatever truth, decency, justice, God, family, about him losing his temper and reach across every divide so as to live that, though I wish I could, reason at that time cannot fully church, right dogma, right practice using whips to drive the money- wish good and do good precisely especially today. bear the word love. and Christ. changers out of the temple? to those who hate us. And it We are in a bitter time. It would be hard to argue that Indeed, what about his statement: categorically forbids rationalising Everywhere there is anger, this kind of energy issues forth “I have come to bring fire to this The Gospel never hatred in its name or in the name condemnation of others, and from God’s spirit and does not Earth?” ❛❛ of truth, justice or right dogma. bitter disagreement; so much so lets us bracket charity...” The late Michael J. Buckley, that today we are simply unable source itself elsewhere. These statements are Looking at Jesus we see that all perennially misinterpreted and As well, the incident of him looking at the bitter polarisation in to have a reasonable discussion driving the money-changers out of our churches, suggests that nothing on any sensitive political, moral, his energies were directed towards used falsely to rationalise our lack unity. Jesus never preached hatred, of genuine Christian love. When the temple, forever falsely cited to justifies our current bitterness: or doctrinal issue. We demonise justify our anger and judgement as is clear from the Sermon on Jesus says that he has come to “The sad fact stands, however, that hat’s for dinner, reintroduce the true definition So, in the spirit of the times, each other to the point where any of others, has a very different the Mount, as is illustrated in his bring fire to this Earth and wishes it is frequently no great trick to get when can we eat, Without a consistent routine, we of a treat – regularly referred to while lockdown has unsettled old attempt to actually reason with emphasis and meaning. His action great priestly prayer for unity in it were already blazing, the fire religious men and women to turn can I have snack by participants as “real treats” routines, it has also provided us each other (let alone to reach as he cleanses the temple of the on one another in some terrible now – all these may be eating more than usual or – as an event or item that is with an opportunity to establish agreement or compromise) mostly John’s Gospel, and as is evident he is referring to is not the fire people who were (legitimately) form of condemnation. Wars, questions have piled on top of us valued because it is rare or “out new ones. just deepens the hostility. If you in his frequent warnings to us to of division but the fire of love. exchanging Jewish currency W finding it difficult to think of what HSE dietitian Olivia Kelly during lockdown. of the ordinary” and gives great doubt this, simply watch the be patient with each other, to not Jesus made a vow of love, not of even personal wars, are terrible for foreign money in order let Many are cooking regularly pleasure”. Holton, believes that “spending newscasts any evening, read any judge each other and to forgive alienation. realities, and the most horrible of to cook writes Ruadhán Jones foreigners buy what they needed for children and isolated friends time at home gives us a unique newspaper or follow the discussion each other. His message provoked hateful these are often self-righteously to offer sacrifice, has to do with and family, as well as balancing opportunity to instil good eating on most moral and religious But one might object: what opposition, but he did not self- religious. For deceived or split off How to treat yourself him clearing away an obstacle in home schooling and working great temptation to snack the with unhealthy food to such Does that mean an end to all habits within the household and questions. about Jesus’ own (seemingly) define as a cultural or ecclesial under the guise of good, under the the way of universal access to God, from home. time away. an extent that it is no longer snacking? Not at all! It’s still to be good role models for our The first thing that is evident is bitter judgments? What about him warrior. He preached and rubrics of orthodoxy or liberality, of not with anger at some particular The lockdown period has But though the pandemic considered to be a ‘real treat’: a good thing to eat fun treats children’s dietary choices”. the naked hatred inside our energy speaking harshly of others? What incarnated only love, and that community or of personal freedom, people. seen a 45% increase in the has increased the number this behaviour has become and snacks, but virtue is in The HSE has published a and how we tend to justify it on even of holiness itself, factions We frequently ignore the consumption of junk food and of treats we’re consuming, it normalised into children’s daily moderation and a treat is all the number of useful tips and moral and religious grounds. This of men and women can slowly When Jesus says that he has come Gospel. Factionalism, tribalism, sweets, according to the latest only exacerbated a trend well or weekly routine”. nicer when it is actually a treat. guides for getting our diets on is our protest: we’re fighting for disintegrate into pettiness or ❛❛ racism, economic self-interest, figures from the Central Statistics established before lockdown. The report was released Part of the problem is that the right track. truth, decency, justice, God, family, cynicism or hostility or bitterness. to bring fire to this Earth and wishes historical difference, historical Office (CSO). In 2017, a report was released by Safefood, an all-island parents and childminders’ Church, right dogma, right practice, privilege and fear perennially cause In this way the Christian church Much of this is due to which examined why adults body who promote safe and childhood experience of the rarity Planning notice for Christ himself, so our anger and bitter polarisation and trigger a becomes divided.” it were already blazing, the fire he is increased anxiety and tension, gave treats to children. The healthy eating on the island of of treats contrasts with the easy Much of the advice will sound hatred are justified. hatred that eats away at the very We need to be careful inside while boredom and easy access report concluded that “children Ireland. They recommended availability and routine provision familiar. It comes down to Anger is justified, but hatred fabric of community; and that our cultural and religious wars. referring to is not the fire of division but to our food cupboards adds a are being continually ‘treated’ that adults be encouraged “to of treats to the current generation. is an infallible sign that we are hatred perennially justifies itself There is never an excuse for lack of » Continued on Page 33 acting in a manner contrary to the fire of love” by appealing to some high moral fundamental charity. 32 | Family & Lifestyle || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 Family News Letting our AND EVENTS TIME TO MAKE ART AMONG THE ANIMALS Many families have been cooped up for a long time, only now being able to go on some visits and days out, what better way to hearts be celebrate the easing of Covid-19 restrictions than getting creative and letting children’s imagination flow? ‘Come make art among the animals’ is an event set for Saint Anne’s Park, Dublin City farm on St Anne’s All Saints Rd, Clontarf East, Dublin. opened In this workshop students learn painting skills by creating a landscape step by step. Students are each given a wooden frame and shown different painting techniques. They have the opportunity to get creative when creating their frame. The workshops are for children aged 8-12. Organisers say: “We will work outdoors so they are somewhat weather permitting. hile Thomas Mer- differentiates meditation as a is our intention, it is God’s work The students are spaced out keeping within ton may have been faith-based practice from the – meditation is about allowing Covid-19 restrictions.” the first in our time secular practice of meditation in ourselves to be transformed The event takes place on Tuesday, June 30 Mindful to open up to a mindfulness. in the silence. Meditation is from 10-11.30am and costs €22.20. Bookings wider audience the ancient tra- What makes Christian more than just a practice, it is can be made at: https://www.eventbrite. ditionW of Christian meditation, living meditation distinctive is that it essentially about relationship. ie/e/funky-frames-and-landscapes-tickets- it was John Main who recovered is Christ-centred and recognises Not alone does meditation 109946924210?aff=erelpanelorg and simplified the practice for the deep connectivity between change our relationship NO SCREEN TIME RULES WHEN ordinary women and men. Prior the human spirit and the Holy with our thoughts, it also to that it was to be found mainly Spirit. In the Christian tradition changes our understanding PARENTS STRESSED – STUDY in contemplative monasteries. Dr Noel meditation is understood a of who we are at the deepest Stressed parents often abandon screen time The practice of meditation Keating form of prayer, silent, imageless, level of our being. That new rules for children according to new University by lay men and women grew wordless prayer. We tend to perspective changes how we of Guelph research finds. as a result of John Main’s work think of prayer as a mental and led to the foundation of the activity – hence the expression see all of reality and hence our A pioneer study in Canada found parents of relationship with ourselves, young children reporting high levels of life or World Community for Christian who dwells within each one saying our prayers but prayer is Meditation, led today by “the raising of the mind and the with the Divine, with others parenting stress were less likely to monitor of us. John Main believed that Laurence Freeman. heart to God”. and all of creation. and limit their children’s screen use and when we entered the silence of Throughout Ireland there meditation, we entered the flow However, it is widely more likely to use their own devices in front are Christian meditation groups of love between the Father and recognised that the Christian The initial of their children. which, before the pandemic, tradition has over-emphasised ❛❛ Son which he saw as the Spirit. The research comes at a time when many met weekly in homes, parishes, prayer as an activity of the mind words of the prayer, The initial words of the Canadian families are experiencing more hospitals, schools, and prisons, rather than the heart. prayer, ‘Heavenly Father’, ‘Heavenly Father’, stress than usual due to Covid-19. The to meditate together, while, But when we recite the remind us that our intention remind us that our study was published in the Journal of typically, those who attend such John Main prayer at the start in meditation is to be still Children and Media. groups meditate twice each day of meditation, we ask God to intention in meditation in the presence of God, our It surveyed 64 parents from 39 families of in their own homes. Throughout open our hearts, not our minds. Creator and acknowledges is to be still in the children 18 months to five years of age taking the pandemic many continue So whatever we experience in our understanding that to meditate in groups online meditation, it is heart-felt rather presence of God” part in the Guelph Family Health Study. The we are God’s children. It is through Zoom. than mind-based. It moves parents were asked about their stress as well fundamental to our Christian The fact that meditation us beyond rational thinking. as whether they monitored and limited their is a prayer of the heart rather understanding that we are It is not irrational but trans- children’s screen use, and whether they used It is widely children of God and are called than the mind was captured screens in front of their children. ❛❛ rational, beyond the rational. recognised that the into personal relationship It is a movement beyond beautifully by Alex, a twelve- Christian tradition with God. Meditation deepens mental activity about one’s year-old girl, when she said FIFTH OF WORLD POPULATION that understanding and that has over-emphasised relationship with the Divine, to to her teacher: “When I hear MORE VULNERABLE TO COVID-19 relationship. Of course, for a communion with the Divine, the chimes at the start of many people nowadays, who About 20% of people around the world have prayer as an activity of which Christians believe is meditation, I imagine it is God may never have experienced at least one underlying health condition the mind rather than mediated through Christ. ringing my doorbell and I open a loving father in their lives, my heart to let Him in.” I invite that makes them more vulnerable to severe the heart” attaching a gender to God may you now to spend some time Covid-19 illness, according to researchers. John Main wrote a simple be unhelpful. But the Bible also in the stillness and silence of The analysis of data from 188 countries prayer which is recited before speaks of “the God who gave meditation where you can points to 22% of the world’s population may the start of meditation and you birth” so we may equally begin to experience that truth need more protective measures. However, think of God as a loving mother. which reads as follows: for yourself. not all people with underlying conditions will “Heavenly Father, open our Or, simply, as love. develop severe COVID-19 illness if infected hearts to the silent presence Referring to God as ‘Heavenly’ i After 40 years in the education sector Noel Keating with the new coronavirus authors stated. of the Spirit of your Son. Lead reminds us that God’s nature is was awarded a PhD for his The international team of investigators us into that mysterious silence not like ours. God is the ground of all being yet we somehow, research into the child’s concluded that 4% of these people would where Your love is revealed mysteriously, participate in experience of meditation and require hospitalisation, according to the study to all who call.” Over the next few articles I’d like to reflect God’s being. And John Main its spiritual fruits. Noel now published in The Lancet Global Health journal. on the depth of meaning in believed that it is in meditation leads, in a voluntary capacity, “We hope our estimates will provide useful this simple prayer, beginning that we come to experience that a project which offers free starting points for designing measures to today with the opening words reality most deeply. So those in-service to primary schools protect those at increased risk of severe ‘Heavenly Father’. opening words ‘Heavenly Father’ who may wish to consider disease,” said study author Andrew Clark, The first thing to say is serve to clarify and remind us of The important point here is introducing meditation as a an associate professor of public health and that the prayer as a whole is our intention in meditation. And that meditation is not what you whole-school practice. Noel is author of Meditation with policy at the London School of Hygiene & centred on the Trinity. The intention is a distinguishing and think, it is about letting go of thought and allowing our hearts Children: A Resource for Tropical Medicine. prayer appeals to God to reveal important feature of different to us the Spirit of God’s Son kinds of meditation. Intention to be opened by God. So while it Teachers and Parents. 32 | Family & Lifestyle || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Family & Lifestyle ||33

» Continued from Page 31 Family News Letting our AND EVENTS TIME TO MAKE ART AMONG THE ANIMALS Many families have been cooped up for a long time, only now being able to go on some visits and days out, what better way to hearts be Bairbre Cahill celebrate the easing of Covid-19 restrictions than getting creative and letting children’s You don’t get to be by police, suffering a serious imagination flow? Racist and Irish,” head injury. Gugino and the ‘Come make art among the animals’ is an Imelda May reminded Catholic Worker Movement event set for Saint Anne’s Park, Dublin City us in her powerful take the Beatitudes seriously – farm on St Anne’s All Saints Rd, Clontarf poem“ recently. I would be blessed are the peacemakers, East, Dublin. inclined to add that you don’t blessed are those who hunger opened get to be racist and Christian and thirst for what is right. And In this workshop students learn painting skills by creating a landscape step by step. either but that isn’t always I need to be able to say to my Students are each given a wooden frame and planning and establishing a routine, hungry, so I don’t put as much that while establishing a good clear. Whether it is Donald children: “This is what it means Trump wielding a Bible in to be a Christian, this is where shown different painting techniques. They says dietitian Aoife Hearne. effort into meals, so I snack more breakfast routine won’t solve all front of St John’s Episco- we need to be.” have the opportunity to get creative when “Planning can really help,” Ms often… To break the cycle then, we our problems, “starting the day pal Church or a statement If we had any illusions that creating their frame. The workshops are for Hearne says. “Making a daily or even need to put a bit of effort into our with the right nutritional route can from the Church Militant all those racist issues were children aged 8-12. a weekly list of the meals you’re meal times, cooking dishes that are certainly make the rest of the day going to eat can really help you flavoursome, fun and filling. group referring in deroga- only a problem in America we Organisers say: “We will work outdoors a little easier on our much-loved tory terms to Archbishop should surely have been well so they are somewhat weather permitting. with your shopping. Routine can I’ve found the time at home to be little ones”. hile Thomas Mer- differentiates meditation as a is our intention, it is God’s work Wilton Gregory as an ‘African and truly shaken out of such The students are spaced out keeping within also really help. Try to have three great for experimenting with new ton may have been faith-based practice from the – meditation is about allowing dishes. What I’ve discovered is there Queen’ because he chal- complacency. There have Covid-19 restrictions.” meals and one to two snacks spread the first in our time secular practice of meditation in ourselves to be transformed are all sorts of ways to spice up your Keeping to a lenged Trump’s recent visit to The event takes place on Tuesday, June 30 Mindful throughout the day.” to open up to a mindfulness. in the silence. Meditation is meal times, but they don’t have to be ❛❛ the Saint Pope John Paul II from 10-11.30am and costs €22.20. Bookings Keeping to a schedule can help schedule can help wider audience the ancient tra- What makes Christian more than just a practice, it is stave off boredom and control our labour intensive or very expensive. A shrine in Washington, Christi- can be made at: https://www.eventbrite. ditionW of Christian meditation, living meditation distinctive is that it anity has been dragged by its essentially about relationship. tendencies to graze on food all day. quick stir fry can be as satisfying as a stave off boredom ie/e/funky-frames-and-landscapes-tickets- shirt collar into the explosive it was John Main who recovered is Christ-centred and recognises Not alone does meditation As part of your plan, scheduling steak (though I’m not sure everyone 109946924210?aff=erelpanelorg tensions created by racism. and simplified the practice for the deep connectivity between change our relationship snack times is especially important, agrees with me on that!). and control our Many of the far right nation- ordinary women and men. Prior the human spirit and the Holy with our thoughts, it also according to Aileen McGloin of As with most things it seems, it’s NO SCREEN TIME RULES WHEN tendencies to graze alist groups in America see to that it was to be found mainly Spirit. In the Christian tradition Safefood. best to start with a plan. A weekly PARENTS STRESSED – STUDY Dr Noel changes our understanding themselves as ‘good Christian in contemplative monasteries. meditation is understood a “First make a plan as a family shop is a much easier thing when on food all day” of who we are at the deepest folk’. They use racist and anti- Stressed parents often abandon screen time The practice of meditation Keating form of prayer, silent, imageless, and make one that is achievable,” you know exactly what you need. level of our being. That new The benefits of a good breakfast Semitic language to defend rules for children according to new University by lay men and women grew wordless prayer. We tend to Ms McGloin advises. “So, if you are Think about how many meals perspective changes how we are manifold, from promoting the their actions and protect what of Guelph research finds. as a result of John Main’s work think of prayer as a mental having snacks morning, noon and you need to make and try to have a see all of reality and hence our breakdown of glucose to jump they see as their ‘God-given A pioneer study in Canada found parents of and led to the foundation of the activity – hence the expression night, maybe just aim to have them balance between quick meals and relationship with ourselves, starting our metabolisms. While this right’ to their perceived superi- been many interviews on radio World Community for Christian who dwells within each one saying our prayers but prayer is in the evening. those meals where you go the extra young children reporting high levels of life or with the Divine, with others might seem an abstract, scientific ority. Even within Catholicism and television where people of Meditation, led today by of us. John Main believed that “the raising of the mind and the “If you’re having them every mile. You can also save time and parenting stress were less likely to monitor and all of creation. thing, it has concrete implications for there are echoes of this twisting colour, both Irish and immi- Laurence Freeman. heart to God”. evening, maybe just go for a treat money by choosing recipes that use and limit their children’s screen use and when we entered the silence of our mental and physical wellbeing. of the Gospel and indeed within grant, have spoken of the rac- Throughout Ireland there However, it is widely free day. Whatever change you the same key ingredients. more likely to use their own devices in front meditation, we entered the flow “Research has shown that our own country there are those ist abuse they have received are Christian meditation groups recognised that the Christian The initial decide to make, just make it small Make a go-to list of meals that of their children. of love between the Father and eating fruit, grains and good who make claims to Catholic here, in Ireland, at school, in which, before the pandemic, tradition has over-emphasised ❛❛ and achievable and it will make a your family enjoys and alternate Son which he saw as the Spirit. The research comes at a time when many met weekly in homes, parishes, prayer as an activity of the mind words of the prayer, between these. You could introduce quality protein within a couple of identity, using provocative lan- GAA clubs, on the streets and The initial words of the difference.” Canadian families are experiencing more hospitals, schools, and prisons, rather than the heart. new recipes each week and if it’s hours of waking up helps to avoid guage, incitement of fear and elsewhere. prayer, ‘Heavenly Father’, ‘Heavenly Father’, stress than usual due to Covid-19. The to meditate together, while, But when we recite the a hit add it to your favourites! Get glucose fluctuations throughout claims of patriotism to promote We may see ourselves as remind us that our intention remind us that our Why do we snack a clearly racist agenda. innocent of such acts but rac- study was published in the Journal of typically, those who attend such John Main prayer at the start You could also think about why your the kids involved too by asking the day,” says Dr Holton. “Glucose in meditation is to be still Events of recent weeks ism and discrimination thrive Children and Media. groups meditate twice each day of meditation, we ask God to intention in meditation kids eat more treats than you might them what they would like to eat fluctuations can cause mood in the presence of God, our have provoked robust and in the structures and habits of It surveyed 64 parents from 39 families of in their own homes. Throughout open our hearts, not our minds. want them to. Do they ask for them? and seeing if any have an interest in swings, hyperactivity and poor Creator and acknowledges is to be still in the challenging conversations in our society so we need to look children 18 months to five years of age taking the pandemic many continue So whatever we experience in Are you using treats to reward good cooking themselves. If children feel concentration in our little darlings our understanding that our house. We have talked deeper. What attitudes have part in the Guelph Family Health Study. The to meditate in groups online meditation, it is heart-felt rather presence of God” behaviours or prevent bad ones? they’re involved in the meal, they’re and stress in adults, a combination we are God’s children. It is about anger – not as some- we inherited – and indeed parents were asked about their stress as well through Zoom. than mind-based. It moves Where are they eating these treats? more likely to eat it. best avoided in lockdown. fundamental to our Christian The fact that meditation thing to be supressed but as passed on? What is reflected as whether they monitored and limited their us beyond rational thinking. “Studies show that people who understanding that we are is a prayer of the heart rather Thinking about these might help a force for transformation. in our humour? How do we children’s screen use, and whether they used It is widely It is not irrational but trans- you to understand some of the Don’t forget breakfast skip breakfast can have a sluggish children of God and are called than the mind was captured I don’t know about you, but when But then we have also talked engage with those whom we screens in front of their children. ❛❛ rational, beyond the rational. triggers. Once you’ve set a goal, you’ll metabolism causing them to gain recognised that the into personal relationship beautifully by Alex, a twelve- anyone mentions mealtimes I about the problem of violence see as being very different to It is a movement beyond need to work with your family to extra weight leading to a viscous with God. Meditation deepens year-old girl, when she said immediately think of dinner. and how Martin Luther King, ourselves? How often have we Christian tradition mental activity about one’s agree this. Everybody has to be in circle low activity, high cholesterol, FIFTH OF WORLD POPULATION that understanding and that to her teacher: “When I hear Breakfast and lunch can sometimes rooted in faith and a vision of labelled people and dismissed relationship with the Divine, to this together if it’s going to work. high blood pressure and heart MORE VULNERABLE TO COVID-19 has over-emphasised relationship. Of course, for the chimes at the start of seem like afterthoughts when you the Kingdom of God could rely them – ‘ah sure that lot are a communion with the Divine, If you’re still struggling, sticky disease in later life.” prayer as an activity of many people nowadays, who meditation, I imagine it is God know there’s a steak (or a stir fry) on love and peaceful protest to all the same’? Within our own About 20% of people around the world have which Christians believe is notes on cupboards and fridges can So while we won’t get it right every may never have experienced ringing my doorbell and I open to come. effect change. country how have we treated at least one underlying health condition the mind rather than mediated through Christ. help remind us of our aims and time, those are two sound reasons to a loving father in their lives, my heart to let Him in.” I invite But breakfast in particular is The question has been members of the Travelling that makes them more vulnerable to severe to make it easier for yourself and start the day with a good breakfast! the heart” attaching a gender to God may an important meal and can set raised: How does faith con- Community or the Muslim family you now to spend some time others, don’t keep large volumes Covid-19 illness, according to researchers. be unhelpful. But the Bible also the tone for the day. Dietitian tribute in any positive way to that moves in next door? What John Main wrote a simple in the stillness and silence of of treats at home – this adds to the The analysis of data from 188 countries speaks of “the God who gave Olivia Kelly Holton suggests Balanced diet, resolving the conflicts brought would people of colour within prayer which is recited before meditation where you can temptation. points to 22% of the world’s population may you birth” so we may equally about by racism? our own Catholic parishes tell the start of meditation and begin to experience that truth In addition, keeping healthy balanced life need more protective measures. However, think of God as a loving mother. In a period when it’s more important For me, it has been vital us about their experience? Are which reads as follows: for yourself. snacks like nuts, fruits, cheese and not all people with underlying conditions will Or, simply, as love. to be able to direct our adult we open to such conversations? “Heavenly Father, open our veg can fill the voids between meals, than ever to look after our general Referring to God as ‘Heavenly’ i After 40 years in the children’s attention to powerful Do such questions make our develop severe COVID-19 illness if infected hearts to the silent presence especially for kids. Safefood provide health, paying attention to our diet reminds us that God’s nature is education sector Noel Keating Christian witness which names hackles rise? Do we become with the new coronavirus authors stated. of the Spirit of your Son. Lead a number of options for tasty and can contribute to greater wellbeing not like ours. God is the ground was awarded a PhD for his the sin of racism and demands defensive? The international team of investigators us into that mysterious silence nutritious snacks, ranging from – treat yourself with care and you’ll of all being yet we somehow, research into the child’s change. One such witness Have we the courage of concluded that 4% of these people would where Your love is revealed fruit and breadsticks to cheese and begin to care for yourself. mysteriously, participate in experience of meditation and was Martin Gugino, a 75-year- Martin Gugino? Do we take require hospitalisation, according to the study to all who call.” Over the next tomato toasties. A simple food plan can make such our Christian faith and indeed God’s being. And John Main its spiritual fruits. Noel now old man who is a long-time few articles I’d like to reflect a big difference to how you view the Beatitudes seriously? published in The Lancet Global Health journal. believed that it is in meditation leads, in a voluntary capacity, volunteer with the Catholic on the depth of meaning in your diet. While the temptation is to Being outraged at racism and “We hope our estimates will provide useful that we come to experience that a project which offers free Making mealtimes easy Worker Movement. He has this simple prayer, beginning Once we’ve started controlling our snack on sweet treats and feel-good discrimination is appropriate starting points for designing measures to reality most deeply. So those in-service to primary schools spent his adult life working for today with the opening words snacking, that’s the first part of the foods, it’s all the more reason to seek but outrage needs to move protect those at increased risk of severe opening words ‘Heavenly Father’ who may wish to consider peace and justice and it was ‘Heavenly Father’. battle complete. It leaves us with nourishment of a more wholesome to action where we speak disease,” said study author Andrew Clark, serve to clarify and remind us of The important point here is introducing meditation as a in this context that he was The first thing to say is ample opportunity to enjoy our main and enjoyable kind. out and challenge ourselves, an associate professor of public health and that the prayer as a whole is our intention in meditation. And that meditation is not what you whole-school practice. Noel present at the Black Lives is author of Meditation with meals of the day. For more advice visit https://www. Matter protest in Buffalo where those around us and our policy at the London School of Hygiene & centred on the Trinity. The intention is a distinguishing and think, it is about letting go of thought and allowing our hearts Children: A Resource for It can be a bit of a vicious circle; gov.ie/en/publication/7183c5- he was knocked to the ground society. Tropical Medicine. prayer appeals to God to reveal important feature of different I’ve been snacking and am not that healthy-eating-during-covid-19/ to us the Spirit of God’s Son kinds of meditation. Intention to be opened by God. So while it Teachers and Parents. 34 | Family & Lifestyle || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 ‘When we walk out the church, we’re in missionary territory’ Religious Education Bosco thinks that religious Personal Profile education should be taken out of schools and done in parishes and the home. “We’re bringing people through school and they still don’t know why we do things,” he said. “We’re lacking a lot of catechesis. “Faith is everything to me and my family, everything else comes second. We go to Mass every Sun- day, we say the rosary every night. Ruadhán Jones “That’s where it has to begin. Parents are the ones who can ather of six, co-ordinator of take catechesis to the next level. Síolta Retreats and co-founder “You can see that with voca- of charity Another Pair of tions, it’s begins in the home. I Hands, faith and good works has always been central to Armagh man think if you do your work foun- FBosco McShane. dation work in early life, every- “Faith was always a big part of my thing else will fall into place.” life,” Bosco said to The Irish Catholic. “A big influence on my life was Mother That’s how it Teresa and the work she did in the ❛❛ missions. started, we didn’t “She was the be all and end all for me, come up with a plan a living saint walking among us. I always had a strong interest in the missions and to talk to 12,000 wanted to see if I had a vocation. “I didn’t, I have six kids now and my students. That was wife is a big part of our retreat team Bosco McShane the work of the Holy and the foundation of setting it up.” Spirit” Holy Spirit in action when you saw students for to receive the sacra- It’s up to them to Síolta Retreats ments, leading retreats and bring- When asked about it, Bosco her sisters. However, their main project is ❛❛ ing youth groups on mission trips said he had sympathy for those develop their faith on “We formed charity back then Síolta Retreats, which they set up to Zambia. who see Ireland as missionary called Another Pair of Hands, in 15 years ago at the behest of their own and spread “Many young people think that territory. working with poorest of poor. All Cardinal Sean Brady, then Arch- after their confirmation, that’s the “We sent out for years hun- the money raised went back out to bishop of Armagh. it. We help them end of it,” Bosco said. “But we want India and Africa.” “The Diocese of Armagh didn’t dreds if not thousands of priests on that journey in Bosco and Lynette continue with to let young people know that confir- and nuns around the world, but have a retreat group time at the time mation is the beginning of their faith, whatever way we can” their charity, focusing more on and Cardinal Sean Brady was looking we are in missionary territory Africa as time went on. Even during is the foundation. now in Ireland,” he said. for a team of 6 to go into schools,” “It’s up to them to develop their Bosco and his wife Lynette lockdown, Bosco continues to help “We are going to be receiving Bosco said. faith on their own and spread it. We had an opportunity to work with missionaries out updating their priests from the countries we “We were asked if we’d consider help them on that journey in what- the Sisters of Charity when they websites, advertising for vocations went out to. But I’ll tell young taking it on. How it started was that ever way we can.” went on a mission trip to India in people who go to mass, the and running virtual classes. we would go in giving our testimony Bosco believes that young people 2003/4. “We work with the Franciscan and telling the students about the are interested in the faith, but much minute you walk of out Church Missionary Sisters in Lusaka, Zam- great work missionary priests and of it comes down to how it is pre- on Sunday, you’re in missionary Calcutta bia. At the minute, we’re running a nuns were doing. sented to them. territory. “We worked for nearly 10 years out virtual classroom over WhatsApp. “That’s how it started, we didn’t “Young people are definitely “You are meant to be a disciple in Calcutta, going back and forward, “We’ll post in a short reading come up with a plan to talk to looking for something,” he said. “I do of Christ, to evangelise, to try to working with people with leprosy, from Genesis and the like, or else a 12,000 students. That was the work think they are yearning for some- be Christ to everybody we see and AIDS and TB,” Bosco said. “It gave YouTube video, for them to reflect of the Holy Spirit.” thing and if we can deliver it to them meet. They’ll see then that you you a great sense of belonging to on. At the end of the day, they’ll get Síolta Retreats now work with properly, it will be Jesus Christ and have something that they want the Church, gave a sense of the back to us with their thoughts.” 12,000 students a year, preparing the Blessed Sacrament.” and they’ll want it as well.”

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The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 34 | Family & Lifestyle || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Reviews ||35 ‘When we walk out the church, we’re in missionary territory’ Religious Education Brendan O’Regan Bosco thinks that religious Personal Profile education should be taken out of TVRadio schools and done in parishes and the home. “We’re bringing people through school and they still Powerful question on Ireland’s UN role don’t know why we do things,” n a recent column, I wrote ishment and reformation we he said. “We’re lacking a lot of that I’m never ashamed believe in forgiveness and PICK OF THE WEEK catechesis. redemption.” to be Irish despite reser- MASS “Faith is everything to me and vations about aspects of The gravity of the crimes and the suffering of victims RTÉ1, Sunday June 28, 11am my family, everything else comes culture and government poli- Fr Damian McNeice celebrates Mass in the RTÉ studios, Icies, but I was certainly proud were not ignored. George said second. We go to Mass every Sun- Donnybrook, with members of the Palestrina Choir of St day, we say the rosary every night. when, last week, we got a seat that sympathy for the victims and care for the perpetrators Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Dublin. Ruadhán Jones “That’s where it has to begin. on the UN Security Council. who had served their time Parents are the ones who can The issue was discussed SONGS OF PRAISE were not mutually exclu- ather of six, co-ordinator of take catechesis to the next level. when Samantha Power, for- BBC1, Sunday, June 28, 1.15pm Síolta Retreats and co-founder sive. Mimi saw that the time Claire McCollum shares her love of her home of Northern “You can see that with voca- mer US ambassador to the of charity Another Pair of served was often transforma- Ireland by looking back on some of the best faith stories tions, it’s begins in the home. I UN, was interviewed on Driv- Hands, faith and good works etime (RTÉ Radio 1) on Thurs- tive for the prisoners – they from across the region. think if you do your work foun- has always been central to Armagh man day. She raised a pertinent needed that time away, as St FBosco McShane. dation work in early life, every- Francis and St Ignatius did. NEW! FOOTPRINTS OF GOD: PAUL point – now that we’ve got EWTN, Sunday, June 28, 9pm “Faith was always a big part of my thing else will fall into place.” the seat, what are we going She reckoned some of the Steve Ray hosts a fast-paced travelogue-documentary life,” Bosco said to The Irish Catholic. to do with it? ex-prisoners would be dead focused on the life of St Paul and the locations of his “A big influence on my life was Mother She advised us not to be now if they hadn’t been incar- That’s how it ministry. Teresa and the work she did in the ❛❛ too deferential to the per- cerated. missions. started, we didn’t manent members and also to Sunday Morning Live vicar who is spreading the “She was the be all and end all for me, come up with a plan prioritise. One of her priori- returned to BBC1 last Sun- faith through social media, a living saint walking among us. I always ties was climate change and day morning and I was glad including an online breakfast! had a strong interest in the missions and to talk to 12,000 she thought we could do well Former US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power to see Sally Phillips joining But more serious matters wanted to see if I had a vocation. in that area. featured on RTÉ Radio 1’s Drivetime. Sean Fletcher as co-host. I’ve were included, including an “I didn’t, I have six kids now and my students. That was The UN peacekeeping much to reduce the polarisa- committed to giving dignity long been a fan of her acting exploration of how Britain wife is a big part of our retreat team Bosco McShane the work of the Holy activities of our soldiers are tion that US society is riven and a chance at redemption and was impressed by her should deal with its colonial and the foundation of setting it up.” a source of ongoing pride, by. to the released prisoners. documentary, A World With- and slave owning past. It was Spirit” but I also fear we will be too Issues of race and inequity In Philadelphia there was out Down Syndrome? which a well-balanced discussion Holy Spirit in action when you saw students for to receive the sacra- Síolta Retreats deferential to fashionable featured in Heart and Soul a 67% re-offending rate, but highlighted the way Down with a variety of perspectives It’s up to them to her sisters. ments, leading retreats and bring- When asked about it, Bosco However, their main project is agendas. When we had a con- (BBC World Service) last Sun- it was only 5% among those syndrome children are being as to what reactions were ❛❛ ing youth groups on mission trips said he had sympathy for those develop their faith on “We formed charity back then Síolta Retreats, which they set up sistent life ethic here at home, day morning. But there was who had worked through the ‘screened out’. appropriate. to Zambia. who see Ireland as missionary called Another Pair of Hands, in 15 years ago at the behest of with no death penalty and no no polarisation here as Irish recycling programme. I hope she’ll bring extra I liked the segment on their own and spread “Many young people think that territory. working with poorest of poor. All Cardinal Sean Brady, then Arch- abortion, we had much more journalist Colm Flynn told Flynn pointed out that of width and depth to the pro- Fathers’ Day – we were intro- after their confirmation, that’s the “We sent out for years hun- the money raised went back out to bishop of Armagh. consistency and moral stat- the story of Catholic husband the 2.3 million people behind gramme. Other differences duced to a parish group ‘Who it. We help them end of it,” Bosco said. “But we want India and Africa.” “The Diocese of Armagh didn’t dreds if not thousands of priests ure, but now we are compro- and wife team George and bars in the USA 60% were for this season included Let the Dads Out’, a support to let young people know that confir- on that journey in Bosco and Lynette continue with and nuns around the world, but mised. Mimi Limbach who provide, black or Hispanic and that guests joining the discussion group for fathers – one man have a retreat group time at the time mation is the beginning of their faith, their charity, focusing more on we are in missionary territory Power was thoughtful and in Philadelphia, meaningful many argued this was rooted remotely rather than being had been persuaded to join whatever way we can” and Cardinal Sean Brady was looking is the foundation. Africa as time went on. Even during now in Ireland,” he said. articulate, always worth lis- work in computer recycling in racism. Such debates in studio – more lockdown Sally Phillips. by his wife and it had led him for a team of 6 to go into schools,” “It’s up to them to develop their Bosco and his wife Lynette lockdown, Bosco continues to help “We are going to be receiving tening to. I thought she could for ex-prisoners, or ‘returning often polarise into conflicts fallout. lockdown and sticking our to the Christian Faith. Good Bosco said. faith on their own and spread it. We had an opportunity to work with missionaries out updating their priests from the countries we have been more even-handed, citizens’ as they were nicely between the hang ‘em/flog The opening section of heads in ice cubes to set us outcome. “We were asked if we’d consider help them on that journey in what- the Sisters of Charity when they websites, advertising for vocations went out to. But I’ll tell young but, being a Democrat in an called. ‘em brigade and the bleeding religious stories in the media up for the day. taking it on. How it started was that ever way we can.” went on a mission trip to India in people who go to mass, the election year, she launched George went to a Jesuit heart liberals, but here was is still a bit too light and long There was upbeat coverage and running virtual classes. we would go in giving our testimony Bosco believes that young people i [email protected], 2003/4. a few typical broadsides at school while Mimi was a more nuanced approach – for my liking – it included of a drive-in religious service “We work with the Franciscan and telling the students about the are interested in the faith, but much minute you walk of out Church @boreganmedia President Trump – whether inspired by reading her par- more bridge building than silly items about sniffing can- in the Bushmills Northern Missionary Sisters in Lusaka, Zam- great work missionary priests and of it comes down to how it is pre- on Sunday, you’re in missionary she was accurate or not is not ent’s religious pamphlets. bridge burning. As George dles with fragrances reminis- Ireland and a light hearted Calcutta bia. At the minute, we’re running a nuns were doing. sented to them. territory. the point. I fear she didn’t do Now grandparents, they were said: “If we believe in pun- cent of places we miss during interview with and Anglican “We worked for nearly 10 years out virtual classroom over WhatsApp. “That’s how it started, we didn’t “Young people are definitely “You are meant to be a disciple in Calcutta, going back and forward, “We’ll post in a short reading come up with a plan to talk to looking for something,” he said. “I do of Christ, to evangelise, to try to working with people with leprosy, from Genesis and the like, or else a 12,000 students. That was the work think they are yearning for some- be Christ to everybody we see and AIDS and TB,” Bosco said. “It gave YouTube video, for them to reflect of the Holy Spirit.” thing and if we can deliver it to them meet. They’ll see then that you you a great sense of belonging to on. At the end of the day, they’ll get Síolta Retreats now work with properly, it will be Jesus Christ and have something that they want the Church, gave a sense of the back to us with their thoughts.” 12,000 students a year, preparing the Blessed Sacrament.” and they’ll want it as well.” Music Pat O’Kelly Sweet A tasty summer treat: rhubarb and orange crumble Stanford’s career forever remembered for his pure genius Relatively recently, I men- composer. A march, com- reputation with its past pupils Meeke and Stanford also mixed-voice group in 1872. his is a twist on a classic crumble flavour, For the filling: extra sweet tooth but don’t kill all the tanginess, the tioned Charles Villiers Stan- posed by Charles when he securing lucrative posts in the studied with Robert Stewart, As its performances out- that added orange gives it a lovely l contrast with the sweet crumble is essential. 50g rhubarb ford in relation to his opera was eight, was played in a business world and academia. organist at St Patrick’s Cathe- Treats citrusy kick. Rhubarb is right in season To make the crumble, cut the chilled butter shone those of the original l Juice of 1 orange The Veiled Prophet. This pantomime in Dublin’s Thea- Charles accepted Bassett’s dral and professor of music at at the moment so now is the best time to into cubes then rub it together with the flour society, a compromise was Laura l 60g golden caster sugar to spurred me on to delve fur- tre Royal. strict regime as it drew him TCD. enjoy it. Its delicate pink colour makes it a perfect using your fingertips until it resembles reached by joining forces T sweeten ther into the archives and Charles’ godmother, into a milieu of boys his own With his only son set on under John Larkin Hopkins breadcrumbs. Some recipes suggest Anderson centrepiece for your summer dinner party. If you discover more about the Elizabeth Meeke – a former age. music as a career, John James Preheat the oven to that you can use a food processor for with Stanford as his assistant. want to make the colour even more striking try composer born in Dublin’s Moscheles pupil in Leipzig – The school had a particu- Stanford insisted he should 200℃/190°Fan/Gas this step. It’s personal preference, the Organist at Trinity College, using a blood orange instead of a regular one. You Herbert Street in 1852. took charge of his piano les- lar penchant for the classics have a broader university mark 6. Trim the ends processor results in a very fine crumb Cambridge but in declining can also try adding some ginger into the fruit or His father, a well-to-do sons. and, while Charles did well education. Awarded an organ off the rhubarb stalks, almost like sand. I prefer it to be a health, Hopkins appointed some cinnamon to the crumble if you’d like to add lawyer, John James, was a cel- Stanford later recalled she in Greek and Latin, his results scholarship, Charles went to wash and cut them into little less even, with a more interesting Stanford his deputy at Trin- a little more warmth to the flavours. This is so fast list and noted bass who sang insisted on him sight-reading in other subjects were disap- Queens’ College, Cambridge 1-inch pieces. Place in texture and a rustic feel! Next, stir in ity whither the young man the title role in Mendelssohn’s a Chopin Mazurka at the end pointing. in 1870 carrying an impres- to whip up and is a perfect one for beginners, no an ovenproof dish, it can the brown sugar and the orange rind. Elijah at its first Dublin per- of each lesson. By the age of transferred in 1873, the year fiddling around with tricky pastry. be as deep or as shallow Spread the crumble topping evenly over sive list of compositions in formance in 1847. Charles 12 he knew over 50 of them he made his first visit to Ger- as you like. Finely grate the the rhubarb and orange. Mixing the oats in Moscheles pupil his portfolio. Ingredients mother, Mary, also had legal by heart. He made his first visit to many. rind from the orange and set with the crumble could result in them soaking Immersing himself in col- forbears and was an accom- Acknowledging the lad London when he was 10 and He met Brahms at the For the crumble: it aside for the crumble. Squeeze up the fruit juice and becoming stodgy so instead, lege life, he quickly became plished pianist. needed a ‘proper’ education, had composition tuition from assistant director of its musi- Schumann festival in Bonn l 100g unsalted butter, chilled the juice of the orange over the sprinkle them on top where they will toast and add Receiving his early edu- his parents enrolled him Tralee-born Arthur O’Leary cal society. and, by then, was being l rhubarb. Sprinkle over the caster sugar and gently even more texture. Bake in the preheated oven for 60g light brown sugar cation at home under a Charles Villiers Stanford. in the Henry Tilney Bassett then a professor at the Royal marked out as a classicist on toss everything together to coat. If you like your 30-40 mins, until bubbling and golden brown on top. The male-only body was l governess, Charles’ mother School on Dublin’s Lower Academy of Music. Back the lines of Schumann and 140g plain flour rhubarb filling very soft you can always cook it on the This is delicious both hot and cold with vanilla gave a recital of piano music in decline but, as Stanford’s supervised his music les- Mount Street. Under English- in Dublin, Henrietta Flynn, Brahms rather than a mod- l 2 tbsp oats hob for 10 minutes before adding it to the dish. You ice cream, homemade custard, crème fraiche or by Mozart, Beethoven, Men- attempts to introduce women sons and realised his preco- delssohn and Ignaz Mosche- born Bassett, the establish- another Moscheles pupil in to its ranks were firmly ernist, embracing Liszt and l Rind of one orange can also add more sugar to the fruit if you have an fresh cream. cious talent. Aged seven, he les, then quite a popular ment had a considerable Leipzig, replaced Elizabeth resisted, he set up a rival Wagner. To be continued. 36 | Reviews || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020

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She sided regularly slipped into a church, sit- ❛❛ Luminaries such as theologian Frank why is she attracting increasing with workers, writing for a number ting in the back row, hardly knowing extensively in the US Sheed and philosopher Jacque Mar- attention? Cardinal John O’Connor, of radical newspapers. Her political why she was there. explaining the Catholic itain were willing speakers. Archbishop of New York, initiated engagement went alongside a deep Day took the Sermon on the her cause for canonisation in 1997. love of literature. Prospect Worker and its House of Mount seriously. She could not see His successors continue to support She immersed herself in the clas- The prospect of giving birth inten- how war, particularly modern war it. sics as well as the moderns. No sur- sified these feelings. She resolved Hospitality...” that targeted non-combatants, could This detailed, well-written biog- prise, then, that she was drawn to that her child would be baptised. He supported himself working be justified. Her pacifism reduced raphy tells her story with all its com- artistic circles. She was a close friend She, herself, began instruction in as a labourer. He introduced her to the considerable support that her plexities and human weaknesses of Eugene O’Neill, who was on his the Catholic Faith. She was, she the Thomism of Jacques Maritain, work received as World War II and of the marvellous strength and way to becoming one of America’s reported, drawn to the Church the personalism of Emmanuel Mou- approached. vision she was graced with in her most celebrated dramatists. because it was, she observed, the nier, the thought of Peguy and the Day travelled extensively in the dedication to the ‘Kingdom to come’. Her passionate search to love Church of the poor. social critique of G.K. Chesterton US explaining the Catholic Worker Dorothy Day was born in Chicago and be loved was frustrated as one The growing importance of reli- and Hilaire Belloc. The Catholic tra- and its House of Hospitality. She was in 1897. Her family were middle abusive relationship led to further gion in her life slowly but surely dition strengthened and expanded an admired figure, her commitment class if precariously so as her father, unsatisfactory ones. She did find built a barrier between her and her her understanding of the disorders to the poor inspired. But there were a sports journalist, moved from job happiness in a stable partnership partner, an atheist with a profound of capitalism. reservations. American Catholics Visions of fervent human hopes and fears Heaven on Earth: Painting and The introduction and the finale are worldwide ecological movement the Life to Come indeed politically orientated, but the (to which Pope Francis has notably by T. J. Clark substance is a set of essays on Giotto, contributed). There is no hope for a (Thames & Hudson, £18.95) Brueghel, Poussin and Veronese, Marxist future. But the human spirit rounding off with a Picasso work in will, perhaps through new ideas of Peter Costello the UNESCO building in Paris. society and art, find out a future, but a British-born writer T. J. Clark is a Pro- These are full of interest: the future very different from ‘the normal fessor Emeritus of the History of Art at Poussin essay with a long discussion life’ so many ache to return to – which the University of California, Berkeley. of the Catholic doctrine of the efficacy for many in the world was far from a His main field of interest has been of grace as expressed in his series on normal human existence. 19th-Century French art, and such the Sacraments, and the nature of his That this book in dealing with ideas artists as Manet and Courbet, so this belief contrasted with Giotto’s. of the future life here on Earth fails to book represents something of a fresh speak about the ecological movement departure. This book deals in detail explains a great deal about the overall He has been identified as a ‘Marx- ❛❛ political failure of Marxism. ist’, but that merely means that he with some of the world’s But the melancholy apart, this is a wishes to draw our attention to the book that deals in detail with some of social and economic circumstances most arresting images” the world’s most arresting images. The in which art is produced, something One need not agree completely chapter on Giotto, for instance, caught that those who adopt a more aesthetic with Clark’s views to gain many my deep attention, having recently approach often dislike – despite the insights from this book. For instance, manner in which market value affects interesting as what he says about visited the Arena Chapel in Padua the appreciation of art. Brueghel is, yet one feels more and seen that painter’s great work of would have been gained by relating many images, ‘Last Judgement’, which Depictions the painter’s images of life to the fills the whole room – he is truly a This new book deals, as the subtitle imagination of Rabelais. But the remarkable painter. says, with “painting and the life to French author, like so many other The saddest image in the book is come”. This might seem to many to authors who would provide a context not a painting, but a photograph of the mean depictions of the beatific vision. for the artists discussed, is not concourse of the UNESCO building in But no; we cannot know what that is mentioned at all. Paris, which shows Picassos’ ‘Fall of like theologians remind us, despite However the book is pervaded by a Icarus’, almost entirely screened from the visions of saints and such sages as sense of Marxist melancholy. With the view by the massed concrete segments Swedenborg in his Arcana Cœlestia. decline of that philosophy, he seems of the brutalist architecture – the For Clark the life to come is a vision- to think there is no hope of a future for imagination of the painter entirely ary expression of something better for the Left, or indeed any political view. overpowered. This photo, just in itself, humanity than what we have: famine, But this book in presenting this is an allegory of the artist in modern ‘Giotto’s Last Judgement’, Arena Chapel, Padua. plague, war and death. view fails entirely to address the times. 36 | Reviews || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020 | Reviews ||37

Readers should note that The Irish Catholic circulates throughout the island of Ireland and the book prices listed are the retail price recommended by the Irish or British publishers, in either euros or BookReviews Peter Costello sterling, as a general indication of what purchasers may expect to pay. RepresentingRepresenting thethe KingdomKingdom in today’s societysociety Lockdown literature • Chapter 6 Dorothy Day: Dissenting contempt for all things religious. He encouraged her to deploy her that this conscience was dormant, if Back to the origin Voice of the American A painful separation was una- journalistic skills demonstrating not dead. Then there was the poverty Century voidable. She worked for a time as its relevance. On May 1, 1933 the amidst the wealth exacerbated by rac- by John Loughery and Blythe a scriptwriter in Hollywood, return- first edition of the Catholic Worker ism, the legacy of the sin of slavery. ing to New York, with her daughter, of all things Randolph hit the streets. It was obvious that (Simon & Schuster, $30.00/£18.99) working once more as a journalist in the witness of thinking should be the radical press. matched by the witness of action. She distrusted Charles Darwin. Frank Litton She worried about what her institutions❛❛ because they n 2015, Pope Francis addressed new-found Faith demanded of her. Destitute a joint meeting of the United She prayed. And, then, in answer to The Gospel is clear: “Amen I tell you, hampered autonomy and States’ Congress. He invoked her prayer she met, if not an eccen- inasmuch as you did to the least of the memory of famous Ameri- tric then certainly, a highly unusual these, my brothers, you did it to me.” responsibility” cans: “The complexities of history Frenchman. Peter Maurin came So they opened a House of Hospital- Day belongs to the tradition of US Inot withstanding, these men and from a large peasant family rooted ity that welcomed the destitute, the Dorothy Day – a ‘anarchism’. We see this in her politics women for all their many differ- in the south of France. He had joined damaged, the broken and the home- and in the Houses of Hospitality she saint in the making. the De La Salle Brothers, left them, ences and limitations were able by less, providing food and shelter and inspired. She never sought to incor- spent time in Paris before travelling hard work and self sacrifice – some above all, the love and acceptance porate these into a movement coor- to Canada and thence to the US, all at the cost of their lives – to build a to job. She too aspired to be a jour- and was delighted to discover that that the Gospel demands. It was dinated by hierarchy with herself as the time studying and proclaiming better future.” nalist. she was pregnant. hard work. leader. He named four: Abraham Lincoln, It was a time when a thuggish and While religion played no part in Catholic social teaching in conversa- It was clear that both required Indeed, she declined a director’s Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton expanding capitalism waged a class her upbringing, she did feel the pull tion and from the soapbox. the ‘clarification of thought’ and l In the recent protest in the US, a Catholic Workers’ activist was struck down by position in the House of Hospitality. and Dorothy Day. war against the exploited, the poor of grace, however obscurely. After a regular weekly meetings were an the Buffalo police, sustaining brain injuries [photo above]w. Martin Gugino is an Her co-workers, nonetheless, referred Dorothy Day may well have been and the vulnerable as they sought night’s drinking and partying, she Day travelled integral part of the House’s routine. devout Catholic, educated at Canisius High School, a Jesuit school in Buffalo, and the least-known. Who was she and to unite in self-defence. She sided regularly slipped into a church, sit- ❛❛ Luminaries such as theologian Frank a passionate advocate for many causes, among them Black Lives Matter. to her behind her back as the ‘Abbess’. why is she attracting increasing with workers, writing for a number ting in the back row, hardly knowing extensively in the US Sheed and philosopher Jacque Mar- He would make regular trips from Buffalo to New Haven to help with tasks at A witness, I suppose, to the clarity of her vision and an authority far from attention? Cardinal John O’Connor, of radical newspapers. Her political why she was there. explaining the Catholic itain were willing speakers. Amistad, the Catholic Workers house of hospitality there that describes its mission Archbishop of New York, initiated engagement went alongside a deep Day took the Sermon on the as “follow(ing) Jesus in seeking justice for the poor”. A witness in our time, authoritarianism. In this series some of our literary collaborators her cause for canonisation in 1997. love of literature. Prospect Worker and its House of Mount seriously. She could not see Gugino, still hospitalised, was later traduced by President Trump. She distrusted institutions because will be giving suggestions for lockdown reading, His successors continue to support She immersed herself in the clas- The prospect of giving birth inten- how war, particularly modern war There are more than 150 Catholic Worker houses across the US and another they hampered autonomy and respon- books of all kinds to enlighten us and raise our it. sics as well as the moderns. No sur- sified these feelings. She resolved Hospitality...” that targeted non-combatants, could 29 worldwide. There is a ‘Café Dorothy Day’ in Paris where young French sibility. Yet she respected the institu- spirits. This week: Christopher Moriarty on Charles This detailed, well-written biog- prise, then, that she was drawn to that her child would be baptised. He supported himself working be justified. Her pacifism reduced intellectuals meet to discuss their faith and its implications. tional Church. She may have criticised Darwin’s fundamental belief in a Creator as raphy tells her story with all its com- artistic circles. She was a close friend She, herself, began instruction in as a labourer. He introduced her to the considerable support that her There is no Catholic Worker house in Ireland. clerical leaders, but she recognised expressed in his epoch making study The Origin of Species (1859) plexities and human weaknesses of Eugene O’Neill, who was on his the Catholic Faith. She was, she the Thomism of Jacques Maritain, work received as World War II were merging into the mainstream. inhabited something close enough. that the sacramental life and pie- and of the marvellous strength and way to becoming one of America’s reported, drawn to the Church the personalism of Emmanuel Mou- approached. They were growing in prosperity; They did not relish the Catholic Work- ties that consoled and strengthened vision she was graced with in her most celebrated dramatists. because it was, she observed, the nier, the thought of Peguy and the Day travelled extensively in the some attained great wealth. The cleri- er’s reminders that this was not so. her, the teachings that inspired her, Millions of Christians to this day believe that the creation story Her passionate search to love dedication to the ‘Kingdom to come’. Church of the poor. social critique of G.K. Chesterton US explaining the Catholic Worker cal establishment enjoyed the wel- The US had much blood on its con- depended on a tradition of attempting in the Bible is a true account of the facts about the origin and and be loved was frustrated as one Dorothy Day was born in Chicago The growing importance of reli- and Hilaire Belloc. The Catholic tra- and its House of Hospitality. She was come they could get in the circuits of science: how could one forget the to live the Gospels that only an institu- development of the world. They are a small minority amongst in 1897. Her family were middle abusive relationship led to further gion in her life slowly but surely dition strengthened and expanded an admired figure, her commitment power. slaughter of the innocent in Hiroshima tion could sustain. the Faithful – but their view in 1859 would have been that of the class if precariously so as her father, unsatisfactory ones. She did find built a barrier between her and her her understanding of the disorders to the poor inspired. But there were It was tempting to suppose that and Nagasaki? Its nuclear arsenal and Surely, a representative of the King- mainstream. a sports journalist, moved from job happiness in a stable partnership partner, an atheist with a profound of capitalism. reservations. American Catholics if the Kingdom had not arrived, they military-industrial complex suggested dom for our time. That was the year in which a weighty book was published with the two-pronged title On the Origin of Species by Means of VisionsVisions of of fervent fervent human human hopes hopes and and fears fears Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The introduction and the finale are worldwide ecological movement Heaven on Earth: Painting and Its author Charles Darwin described it as indeed politically orientated, but the (to which Pope Francis has notably The the Life to Come an ‘abstract’ of his ideas. Abstracts are by T. J. Clark substance is a set of essays on Giotto, contributed). There is no hope for a ❛❛ usually a few hundred words rather than (Thames & Hudson, £18.95) Brueghel, Poussin and Veronese, Marxist future. But the human spirit saddest that many pages in length, but this was rounding off with a Picasso work in will, perhaps through new ideas of no ordinary work. Challenging the literal Peter Costello the UNESCO building in Paris. image in society and art, find out a future, but a truth of the Bible, it rapidly took its place British-born writer T. J. Clark is a Pro- These are full of interest: the future very different from ‘the normal amongst the most revolutionary and fessor Emeritus of the History of Art at Poussin essay with a long discussion the book life’ so many ache to return to – which thought-changing books ever published. the University of California, Berkeley. of the Catholic doctrine of the efficacy for many in the world was far from a is not a The first edition of 1,100 copies His main field of interest has been of grace as expressed in his series on normal human existence. sold out immediately. The second, with alterations, 19th-Century French art, and such the Sacraments, and the nature of his That this book in dealing with ideas painting, appeared two months later. The Origin went through six editions artists as Manet and Courbet, so this belief contrasted with Giotto’s. of the future life here on Earth fails to in the author’s lifetime and he added to each one of them to make book represents something of a fresh but a speak about the ecological movement corrections or explanations or respond to the many challenges that departure. This book deals in detail explains a great deal about the overall photograph were made. He has been identified as a ‘Marx- ❛❛ political failure of Marxism. ist’, but that merely means that he with some of the world’s But the melancholy apart, this is a Paperback wishes to draw our attention to the of the book that deals in detail with some of You can buy a paperback on-line for less than €10 and you will social and economic circumstances most arresting images” the world’s most arresting images. The concourse never regret it. In the midst of the controversy he aroused, the in which art is produced, something One need not agree completely chapter on Giotto, for instance, caught fact that Darwin was a first-rate writer and a brilliant populariser of that those who adopt a more aesthetic with Clark’s views to gain many my deep attention, having recently of the natural history is often overlooked. This is a book to read and enjoy, approach often dislike – despite the insights from this book. For instance, either to dip into or read from cover to cover in the sedentary time manner in which market value affects interesting as what he says about visited the Arena Chapel in Padua UNESCO that we are exposed to these days. the appreciation of art. Brueghel is, yet one feels more and seen that painter’s great work of Darwin’s plan for his life before he went on the voyage of the would have been gained by relating many images, ‘Last Judgement’, which building Beagle on which so many of his ideas emerged, was to marry the painter’s images of life to the fills the whole room – he is truly a Depictions Emma Wedgwood, a first cousin, and to become an Anglican This new book deals, as the subtitle imagination of Rabelais. But the remarkable painter. in Paris, clergyman, a rural vicar no doubt. says, with “painting and the life to French author, like so many other The saddest image in the book is However, some high-profile atheists have taken to the worship of come”. This might seem to many to authors who would provide a context not a painting, but a photograph of the which their concept of Darwin and his meaning. So it comes as a surprise mean depictions of the beatific vision. for the artists discussed, is not concourse of the UNESCO building in shows to read his words in the very last paragraph of the work: “There is But no; we cannot know what that is mentioned at all. Paris, which shows Picassos’ ‘Fall of grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been like theologians remind us, despite However the book is pervaded by a Icarus’, almost entirely screened from Picassos’ originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one.” the visions of saints and such sages as sense of Marxist melancholy. With the view by the massed concrete segments This paragraph was one of the many that he altered and the Swedenborg in his Arcana Cœlestia. decline of that philosophy, he seems of the brutalist architecture – the Fall of change is remarkable. In the first edition exactly the same words For Clark the life to come is a vision- to think there is no hope of a future for imagination of the painter entirely are used, but with no mention of the Creator. The concept was ary expression of something better for the Left, or indeed any political view. overpowered. This photo, just in itself, Icarus” introduced in the second edition and it stayed in the book for the humanity than what we have: famine, But this book in presenting this is an allegory of the artist in modern remainder of Darwin’s long life. ‘Giotto’s Last Judgement’, Arena Chapel, Padua. plague, war and death. view fails entirely to address the times. ‘Lamenting Over the Body of Christ.’ 38 | Classifieds || The Irish Catholic, June 25, 2020

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Notebook Fr Bernard Cotter Time to smile... Sometimes it’s still best to ‘let the hare sit’ In the spirit of St Philip Neri, who wanted people to become ’ve always enjoyed reading of the miraculous medal, which compassion in Jesus was only half more human rather than less as John B. Keane’s Letters of an attracted the merest glance from the story. On a bad day, the nasty Irish Parish Priest (or I did me on the way to the bin. (I have God appeared, flinging plagues and they became holier, these may until I became one, anyway). learned that correspondents who earthquakes and other disasters at make you smile: IOne of the letters frequently haven’t the courage to include humanity, to force us to see things l Turning vegan would be a big received by this fictional pastor their name don’t deserve a in another light. missed steak. came from an anonymous reading: future correspondents, Unfortunately, these folks, l I have a chicken-proof lawn. parishioner, who always signed please note!) trying to be good Catholics, were It’s impeccable. herself ‘One Who Tries To Be A about the best ads for atheism I l When the fog lifts in Good Catholic’. Comment could imagine. They put about the California. UCLA. This anonymous scribe’s notes Others who ‘try to be good image of a god who speaks out of l were usually of the curtain- Catholics’ have found other ways Drink wine. It isn’t good to two sides of his mouth, all gentle keep things bottled up. twitching variety, as the English of trying priests’ patience. One and lovey-dovey some days, and press describe today’s ‘Valley-of- l Electricians have to strip to common route employed in the all mean and nasty on others: the-Squinting-Windows’ types make ends meet. pandemic was the interpretation an inconsistent, capricious and residing in the UK. The version l Our mountains aren’t just of the virus as God’s comment altogether chilling deity. Not my described by John B. Keane gave funny. They’re hill areas. on the world of today and its God, anyway. all her letters over to comments l supposed liberal excesses. This It was lucky for us that John Puns about communism aren’t on the moral failings of her fellow virus, I was told, would force many B. Keane’s fictional parish priest funny unless everyone gets parishioners. At one stage in the to think again: God was not to be existed in another age, before them. book, these letters from the one ignored, and would always insist there were emails and other such l Well, to be frank...I’d have to who ‘tries to be a good Catholic’ on humanity’s bowing to the Templemartin, or any nearby intrusions. The email stock of any change my name! caused the exasperated PP to divine wishes. church, Bandon, Co. Cork.” Irish parish priest could make l Wishing you a happy comment: “I hope she doesn’t try In this manner of interpretat- Unfortunately, An Post reckoned I slaves of any of us over-concerned whatever-doesn’t-offend you! any harder!” needed it. The unsigned contents ion, the God who revealed with speed of reply. The advice of provided me with a full acount a nature of infinite love and Patience earlier days about ‘letting the hare The Irish Catholic The pandemic has unfortun- sit’ has a relevance for today. 2 6 l St Corona was revealed earlier this year as the patron of pandemics. ately produced a number of A limited ministry of But could I suggest another: Philip Neri. He is sometimes called the patron communications, not taking over such correspondents, trying to saint of joy, because he had a good sense of fun and didn’t take himself too the whole day, is a sure way to be good Catholics (though often seriously. (It’s said that once, when people were canonising him, he shaved good mental health for the pastor simply trying the patience of the off half his beard, to put people off the scent.) When people are scared recipient). One note that found witless, a sense of humour can be the best remedy for people of Faith. Or today – that and the avoidance of its way to me was addressed: as the Hallmark card people might put it: “Keep smiling, it makes people anyone who tries too hard to be a “To the priest at the church at wonder what you’re up to!” good Catholic. 9 7 7 1 3 9 3 6 8 3 0 5 7

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