Joseph McAuley

You did your duty in what was perhaps the very first act of Christian charity.

St Joseph the loving spouse of Mary and the foster father of Jesus is honored with a Feast Day on March 19th two days after the great feast of the Apostle of Ireland St Patrick It seems not only unfortunate but unfair to have the two great feasts of two great saints so close together Each y

Every March 17th nearly everyone in the entire Irish Catholic world celebrates the feast of Saint Patrick And just about everyone knows something about him the legends the fables his apostolic works mdash but no one knows what he looked like He is of course commonly portrayed as a somewhat o

Catholicism is being resurrected in the former Soviet Republic.

There is something about seeing your parents when they themselves were young that makes you stand back and take notice.

Given the personality of the pope, he will more likely prefer to mark his third anniversary privately and quietly, on his knees, in sincere prayer and petition.

The fact that a new government could not come into being shows how serious the political fractiousness has become.

The day Ronald Reagan died was the day when Nancy Reagan really died.

The future for Ireland could be as rough as its fabled country roads.