Tag Archives: Catholic Ireland

Into the Mystery …

New material is presently appearing a little more slowly at this site. And due to various demands, this situation could continue for a little while. Though I think there might be a few Webbursts coming. (That is to say, in a weblog I reserve for material that is often shorter, more spontaneous and perhaps even [...]
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Bob Geldof and the Divine Power of Jesus Christ

Referring to his Irish Catholic upbringing, avowed atheist Bob Geldof KBE has said: “Intellectually I resisted, but though logic stripped away the cant and ceremony, I still could not rid myself of the voodoo.” Oddly enough, here I think, is testimony to a concept, which I share with Bob Geldof. It is a concept, once entirely obvious [...]
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A Tridentine Preview

A lot of work is presently going into a new aspect of this website, which I hope will soon debut under the name of Tridentine Archive. The Archive among other things, will be representing to the twenty-first century certain older out-of-copyright texts, which deal not only with the Sacred Heart, but also the entire Tridentine period [...]
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Cry from the Heart

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!

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

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

A Flawed, Fond and Important Evocation of Catholic Ireland
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