Why We Must Say: ‘Father Forgive’
The wars in Palestine and Ukraine drag on, and their brutality and pointlessness seem to show no signs of relenting. Meanwhile, other conflicts continue around the world,...
Raymond Perrier
Are You Ready For Mission?
October is designated Mission Month, but surely mission is what the Church is about all the time. After all, we don’t have a special month dedicated to...
When It’s Time To Say Goodbye
The withdrawal by Joe Biden from the US presidential election campaign in late July was met with relief by many of his supporters, and probably by his...
Book on Paddy Kearney to be launched
A book chronicling the life and work of the late activist Paddy Kearney by Dr Raymond Perrier, director of the Denis Hurley Centre and monthly Southern Cross...
The Gains of Women In Society
‘The hour is coming, in fact it has come, when the vocation of women is being fully recognised, the hour in which women acquire in the world...
Catholic Schools: A Place to Wonder and to Worry
The headline above — “A place to wonder and to worry” — might seem an odd way of describing a Catholic school but it is a phrase...
The Hurdles of Bureaucracy
Newspapers and online newsfeeds over the past few weeks have been rightly filled with joyous photographs and stories of people graduating from universities across the country. When...
Accountability in State and Church
Accountability is important in all walks of life. When people know there will be consequences, then they are much more likely to do what they are supposed...
Ecology: We must work together
The Regular readers of my column may know that I have covered a very broad range of subjects over the 11 years since I first started writing....
Sacrifice for the Right Reasons
At the beginning of the Palm Sunday Mass in a few weeks’ time, we will hear these words: “Brothers and sisters, since the beginning of Lent until...
