Occasional Scribbles

The link:  https://youtu.be/IulIY6CIVRE?si=wyXjt9apCgABePJM  is available on YouTube.  But there appears to be no mention of it on the Vatic...

Dimitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No 2 https://youtu.be/1DFqVqApms8?si=8cG4tlJgn1QS_d2n Take a moment out and listen to this; it never fa...

Half listening to the radio or reading an item in the print media I thought I read that old age pensioners were now able to visit the zoo fr...

Is much of the talk about synodality pie-in-sky? Has the word to be used by every high-ranking cleric to prove he’s watching his career? A r...

To my shame I have come late to reading Mark O’Connell. The piece below is his column in The Irish Times ofSaturday, September 20. Reading i...

 On this day, September 26, 1983  Soviet Air Force officer   Stanislav Petrov   identified a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a   co...

The link below is well worth a read. It’s from the National Catholic Reporter. Pope Leo held private audiences with two figures emblematic o...

Former Dominican priest, Brian Horgan, far right, 1965/‘66 Brian Horgan died in Tallaght University Hospital this morning. Brian was ordaine...

This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper . Michael Commane The state visit of President Donald Trump to our neighbouring island last we...

From Bishop Robert Barron. What do the  US bishops think of this man? What does Bishop Barron think of President’s Trump’s words of hate and...

This blog had 5,530 hits in 33 countries in the last 24 hours. Hong Kong is top of the list with the United States a close second. While num...

Justine McCarthy ’s Friday column in The Irish Times . It makes great sense. Her point about how we are losing the practice of speaking to p...