When I read Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s speech in Dáil Éireann, I was reminded of Tony Blair’s comment about ‘the hand of history laid on his shoulder.’ Blair, who later regretted the perceived pretentiousness of the remark, could be pardoned for …

Sermon for St Mary Magdalene

(by Jane Williams). In recent years St Mary Magdalene must have become one of the best known characters of the early church. Yet even before Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code she seems to have been a woman around whom myths and legends have gathered.

Fr TONY FLANNERY

A PRIEST’S VIEW: PERSONALLY, I was happy with the Taoiseach’s statement on the Cloyne report. I presume not every member of our association was, but those who rang me about it were delighted.

Many of us priests …