Irish Papist

I've just been to All Saints' Day Vigil Mass. All Saints is one of my favourite solemnities (just as Halloween has always been one o...

The post that I wrote yesterday evening made a fair stab at expressing something that is very dear to me. Indeed, in the last few months I h...

(This post is dedicated to Mr. D. Newman, who I hope will appreciate at least some of it.) I think my favourite line from the entire Bibl...

Ballymun was a high-rise housing estate built in the late sixties, dogged by social problems (drugs, vandalism, delinquency, etc.) and rebui...

I'd like to wish best wishes, and give assurances of my prayers, to a reader of this blog who is 'founding a domestic church' to...

Today I served my third day of jury duty, on a case that will probably continue until the end of next week. Please pray to the Holy Spirit t...

A Facebook conversation yesterday, on the prospects for conservatism (and the definition thereof) led me to think about this piece I wrote o...