by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
by Fr Sean McGuire Recently, there has been a national debate on whether it is correct to ‘impose’ the sacrament of baptism on a two week old baby or should a person have the right to choose their religion when they are mature enough to do so. Pope Francis is very...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Dr Gill Doherty The missionary movement that was such a significant feature of the Irish Catholic church from the late nineteenth century through to the 1960s both recalled the earlier glories of the Middle Ages, when Catholic missionaries from the island had...
by Totus Tuus Online | Oct 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Fr Shane Sullivan One of the blessings God works though the saints is stirring us out of our complacency. The dedication, the zeal and love of our Lord that animated their lives is often a catalyst for our own self-reflection and further conversion. This is exactly...
by Totus Tuus Online | Oct 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Bishop Phonsie Cullinan In the light of recent developments in Ireland the Church finds herself in a different place. We must go back to basics. The purpose of the Church is to continue the work of Christ. This is what the Church has done, or tried to...
by Totus Tuus Online | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Fr Shane Sullivan Try to imagine it. August, 1917. Belgian Flanders. The bombs and bullets whistle and crack close overhead. Shells fall everywhere and relentlessly. The sound is deafening. Blood and bodies intermingle with the...
by Totus Tuus Online | Oct 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
by Kathy Sinnott My Aunt Ann was about 50 when she woke up to the fact that her older children were no longer Catholic. A busy mother of nine, still making school lunches for the younger ones, she had not seen it coming. She had done all the right things,...
by Totus Tuus Online | Oct 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 2014 in Nigeria, Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme was praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament, in his Cathedral, when he saw a vision of the Lord. The Lord motioned towards him with a sword, which turned into a rosary. Our Lord then said three times: “Boko...
