World Day of Prayer for the Church in China

World Day of Prayer for the Church in China

Fr Eamonn O’Brien from China Church Solidarity writes: Pope Benedict XVI designated 24 May, as a Day of Prayer for the Church in China. Please remember also Cardinal Zen, the emeritus bishop of Hong Kong, and his four colleagues who were recently arrested under...
St Columban: “more an eagle than a dove”

St Columban: “more an eagle than a dove”

To mark the Feast day of St Columban – patron of the Columbans – we publish an extract of Sr Redempta Twomey’s 2015 talks for RTE Radio on this inspirational Irish missionary who died in Bobbio in 615. In the Columban chapel in Dalgan, Co Meath there is a little...