by Oisin Walsh | Oct 3, 2016 | News archive 2016
Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit COMMENCEMENT OF THE MICHAELMAS LAW TERM 2016 Homily notes of Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin Archbishop of Dublin Saint Michan’s Church, Halston Street, 10.00am 3 October 2016 “We come to invoke the gift, the protection and the inspiration...
by Oisin Walsh | Oct 2, 2016 | News archive 2016
This time last year I had the privilege of attending the Synod on the Family in Rome. One of the highlights of those days was being present on 18 October at the canonisation of Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St Therese, the ‘Little Flower’. As you know it was...
by Oisin Walsh | Oct 2, 2016 | News archive 2016
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you and before you were born, I consecrated you” (Jer 1:5) In his 1995 encyclical letter The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), Pope Saint John Paul II requested the bishops of the different countries of the world to...
by Oisin Walsh | Oct 2, 2016 | News archive 2016
Read at all Masses, Sunday 2 October 2016. A phobal Dé, It is with very mixed feelings that I write to you to share with you the news that Pope Francis has accepted my retirement as Bishop of Clogher on grounds of health and in the light of medical advice. I decided...
by Oisin Walsh | Oct 1, 2016 | Day for Life, News archive 2016
Pope Francis often speaks about the need for a ‘revolution of tenderness’ to melt the ‘hardness of heart’ that is so prevalent in today’s world. Nowadays the way of tenderness is indeed counter-cultural and revolutionary. It is perhaps the only way to confront...
