Occasional Scribbles

There are no words to describe this. To read the report click on the relevant link. Priest after priest. It's not a few 'bad...

On Monday British media reported the death of John Smyth, who died in South Africa. Smyth worked at a Christian camp for young people, w...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane Columnist Mary Kenny writes in  The Ir...

On this day, August 13, 1961 the government of the German Democratic Republic began building the infamous Berlin Wall. Large numbers of ...

US President Donald Trump talks a lot about country, always upper casing the 'c', patriotism and patriots and the military. Wher...

Today is the first anniversary of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

A quote from Damian Howard, provincial of the British Jesuit province. No life worth living is without its trials and I can’t pretend th...

In an item on the upcoming fleadh cheoil in Drogheda on RTE's Morning Ireland at 08.49 today the presenter spoke about a 'new initia...

This article is from The Tablet of August 4. There is a blurb at the bottom on the author. He was also for a number of years a Domi...

An excerpt from an article in today's Guardian by Martin Kettle. For many years it struck me as amusing rather than ominous that the...

Friday's Ryanair pilots' strike was the first item on Germany's ARD main evening news last evening. It reported that over 20...

There are 780,000 people living below the poverty line in Ireland. Five hundrd and twenty thousand adults have poor literacy skills. ...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane Is there  anyone who does not have ...

According to the IMI 45 per cent of all jobs will be threatened by automation by 2025 .

This ad appears on the front page of a national newspaper yesterday. And it seems there is more than one error. Two, three, four? Go...

BBC 2's Newsnight  aired last evening a disturbing report on child protection in Norway. While on the one hand, children from what s...

If honour were profitable, everybody would be honourable. - Thomas More

Last evening RTE screened 'Spotlight'. It tells the story of clerical child sex abuse in the diocese of Boston, including the ch...

Again RTE get it wrong. Yesterday Ray D'Arcy said: How many of you have rang..... It sounds wrong, it is wrong. It was durin...

This week's Independent News and Media Irish regional newspapers' column Michael Commane The Association of Catholic Priests (...

The Opening Prayer at yesterday's Mass was made up of one sentence with 58 words. It is close to impossible to read in public one se...

From this week's Sunday Message  at the church of The Three Patrons, Rathgar. Michael Commane Two Sundays ago there was no music...

"Until I met my wife, I didn't know what listening really was. "My marriage has taught me that what I thought of as listenin...

From the current issue of The Tablet. A senior theologian who teaches on the permanent diaconate programmes of Birmingham and Clifton dio...

Dominican priest Hugh Fenning died early on Wednesday morning in Kiltipper nursing home, Tallaght.  He was born in 1935, joined the Domi...