Mary’s Assumption And Human Dignity

By Fr Billy Swan Of all the religions of the world, none insists on the dignity of the human person more than Christianity.  With our Jewish brothers and sisters, we hold that we bear the imago Dei, the image of our creator.  If that claim wasn’t...

Our Lady of La Salette

By Fr Damian Polly It never ceases to shock and upset me how often the Most Holy Name of Jesus is used as a terrible swear word by so many people in this country and abroad.  The name of our most loving Saviour who died for us, the name before which every knee in...

The parables of the Kingdom

By fr Brian McCarthy In St Matthew’s Gospel we find many teachings of Jesus, expressed in parables, little stories which illustrate the teaching readily and are easy to remember. Generations of preachers have admired the simplicity and power of the parables, “art...