Irish Papist

Though you'd be hard pressed to tell it, it's still the centenary of the 1916 Rising. Given the importance of the anniversary, I thi...

T his post is going to be a free advertisement, and a fully deserved free advertisement. I come to praise Penzu , the diary software that I ...

Today is the wedding day of a friend and a reader of this blog, who I'll call Mr. C. Say a prayer for him and his bride, and for a ...

Today my father told me a story from the Second World War (or the Emergency as it was officially called in neutral Ireland), involving our f...

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone, and the sea is now no more.   And I, John, saw th...

"Dearfá uaireanta nuair a d'fhéachfá timpeall ort sa séipéal agus go bhfeicfeá an mathshlua mórthimpeall an doras ag bun an tséipéi...

This is an article I wrote for Annals Australasia magazine (the oldest Catholic magazine in Australia!), where I've had several articl...