Just outside my kitchen window, a bare tree stands. I see it there each morning at my first prayers of each Lenten day. While it is in the deep slumber of winter, with not a single leaf showing, it welcomes…

Sometimes a handful of pencils are held together with a couple of rubber bands, making a neat and tidy bundle. I thought someone had left me a gift of nice shiny green pencils, sitting on the letterbox, when I arrived…

Coming back from Glasnevin cemetery during the week I drove down East Wall Road towards Dublin Port. There were a number of Garda cars parked on the road, flashing blue lights, and part of the road was coned off. I…

On Wednesday afternoon, around the time that President Joe Biden was addressing the nation from the steps of the Capitol building on the topic of national unity, we were gathered in the Carmelite Convent praying for Christian Unity. The programme…