Tag Archives: Catholic Ireland

Cry from the Heart

By roger | Published: 17 December 2009
May I be permitted, may I permit myself, I wonder, a lamentation here, a cry, even a scream from the heart? Cry out, as I continue in the personal and autobiographical mode of my last  entry – in which entry I also invoked the words of a deceased, anonymous author writing in French, just before the arrival of the new [...]
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Ireland, O Ireland!

By roger | Published: 10 October 2009
I have been hoping to continue from the themes of my last entry. That is to say, I have wanted to further explore the profound questions of what is the response called of a traditional Catholic to Global Warming …  Global Warming as the latest fruit of an increasingly materialistic society. Unfortunately many pressures are keeping [...]
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Sanctifying Grace … on Tap

By roger | Published: 17 July 2009
Once when I lived in Ireland, I knew a priest devoted to the traditional Latin Mass, who moved me deeply on occasion. And another thing that moved me in Catholic Ireland were the Catholic newspapers there. Now the two came together once, when one of these journals featured an interview with this traditional priest. The priest criticised the view of some [...]
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DVD Review: Circle of Friends

By roger | Published: 11 July 2009
A Flawed, Fond and Important Evocation of Catholic Ireland
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