The ACP critical of the way Nuns are being portrayed
8 January 2025
For the past two centuries nuns (sisters) educated people in their schools, and cared for people in hospitals, at a time when the state was either unwilling or unable to provide such services.
Yes, they operated industrial schools, orphanages and mother and baby homes and the values under which such institutions operated clearly failed in many circumstances to reflect those of the Gospel. It
Ireland in the 1980s was not the dark ages Western People 17.12.2024
It’s not news anymore that religion, particularly the Catholic religion, is now either no news or bad news. That’s obvious in both the general and the particular.
An example of the first is that, since the recent retirement of Patsy McGarry from the Irish Times no Irish paper any longer carries a designated religious affairs correspondent.
An example of the second is that one of the most popular programmes on RTÉ Radio, Liveline, today seems only interested in religion when it affords an opportunity to disparage and disembowel with apparent relish all things Catholic.
Brian Thomas Swimme.
I had just finished my lecture on Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The mathematical equations for one of his basic ideas, the so-called invariance of the space-time interval, filled the blackboards. I still had twenty minutes to spare. Perhaps I had galloped through the details too fast. I tended to overprepare for this course since it was loaded with some of the best students on campus, including Oona Fitzgerald who had scored a perfect 1600 on her SATs.
