Occasional Scribbles

Archbishop elect of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone is scheduled to be installed in the archdiocese on October 4, five days before his fi...

The archbishop elect of San Francisco's comments about his drunk driving episode are below. Had the archbishop not been apprehended wo...

It is often argued that Germany never forgets the damage that the inflation of the 1920s caused and is therefore permanently frightend of th...

The current Bishop of Limburg is in the news for all the wrong reasons these days. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-bishop...

The column below appears in this week's INM Irish regional newspapers. By Michael Commane I had an appointment in Tralee on Friday at...

On Gunther Jauch this evening journalist Wolfgang Herles made the comment that Angela Merkel really knew nothing about the Bonner Republik. ...

It has been announced that Archbishop Timothy Dolan is to give a 'blessing' at the upcoming Republican Party convention. This is a...

On this date 70 years ago, August 22, 1942, the battle of Stalingrad began. The Luftwaffe bombed the city almost close to total destructio...

US senatrorial candidate Todd Akin from Missouri talks about a 'legitimate rape'. Mr Akin said on television at the weekend that w...

The column below appears in this week's INM Irish regional newspapers.  The £10 Rosary deal  By Michael Commane It rained ...

An interesting quote from Stephen Collins in Saturday's Irish Times. "The mainstream media has given an entirely undeserved credi...

This column appears in today's Irish Times. By Michael Commane The house in which I am writing these words was the home of my grandfa...

A quote from Voltaire: "Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."

The graphic referred to on the link. The link below is doing the rounds today. http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/08/16/meanwhile-in-ki...

The Dandy had two million readers in the 1950s The children's magazine 'The Dandy' may be about to disappear off the shelve...

A wise Dominican friend has said that he enjoys reading this blog but from time to time finds the negative aspects somewhat tedious. Point t...

The Irish Times Maeve Binchy supplelemnt carries many gems. Her report on the Prince Charles and Diana wedding in July 1981 is funny but m...

An ineresting 'discussion' in this week's Irish Catholic between the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin and the Vocations Dire...

Yesterday's Irish Times 'Maeve Binchy Supplement' is not to be missed. Binchy's piece on the Princess Margaret wedding on ...

Maeve Binchy is on public record for saying she did not believe in God. Her death notice today informs readers that her funeral Mass will ...

Th column below appears in this week's INM Irish regional newspapers. By Michael Commane Just 12 months ago I received a letter from ...

This German Interior Minister sacked the head of the German police today. No reason given. German newspapers carried the story at the we...

"We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach." That's a quote from Seabastian Bar...

Surely and especially as Dominicans we owe our loyalty to the truth and not to the institution. If someone is unjusty treated then is it n...

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said at the MacGill Summer School yesterday, "It is not just that the number of candidates (for pr...

The column below appears in this week's INM regional newspapers. By Michael Commane On Friday I gave a talk at a summer seminar organ...

A man who goes to daily Mass in a Dominican church in Ireland said today that the Dominicans in his town are not interested in people. He we...

Below is the Thinking Anew column in today's Irish Times. By Michael Commane A few months ago I went to a recycling centre with a wh...

Talk below was given by Michael Commane today at the Irish Dominican Sisters summer seminar. My first link with the world of newspapers wa...

The Irish Dominican Sisters are hosting a three day seminar in Dublin this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The theme is, Vatican II Remember...

The Association of Catholic Priests has announced regional assemblies for Galway and Mallow. The Galway assembly is planned for October 6 ...