Shoes for Sunday best...

If you go to Mass on weekdays, and not just Sunday, it can be easier to abandon the practice of wearing our 'Sunday best'. If you we...

So according to Michael Voris, Dublin is the-whole-of-Ireland in microcosm? This doesn't sit well with this Cork woman!

“The decline of the Church is perhaps felt nowhere more acutely than in Ireland”: wasn’t that small fact that Ireland has the highest Mass a...

Paul VI said of Padre Pio that he “bore the wounds of our Lord”

From his youth, his health was not very robust, and especially in the last years of his life it declined rapidly. Sister Death took him well...

Are all the Irish ready to meet St Patrick? St Patrick: "I myself will sit in judgment over the men of Ireland."

Saint Patrick's Vigil on the Reek: 441 AD. The following is the true account of Saint Patrick's Vigil on the holy Mountain of Irel...

Beautiful Tridentine Mass in Cork on St Patrick's Day!

Fr. Anthony Boucheron of the Institute of Christ the King celebrated Tridentine Mass in Ss Peter and Paul's Church yesterday. Can you s...

Let’s all say ‘the bullet’ for three days that the integrity of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum will be preserved and the celebration of the Tridentine Latin Mass will be extended

Please post this prayer on your blog, it is the one the Holy Father calls "the bullet", it is so fast and effective, it goes strai...

Padre Pio and the Irish Part One

This week I have been steeped in research on Ireland's recent economic history. I'm doing some journalism on how the faith in Irelan...

Padre Pio and the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Helping them to Heaven. Part Four

This happened during the years of World War I. One night, Padre Pio was sitting alone absorbed in prayer. An old man entered and sat next to...

Padre Pio and the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Helping them to Heaven. Part Three

Cleonice Morcaldi was a spiritual child of Padre Pio’s. Cleonice’s mother died, and after she had been gone from this earth for one mont...

Padre Pio and the Holy Souls in Purgatory Part Two

Padre Pio told this to padre Anastasio. “One evening, while I was alone in choir to pray, I heard the rustle of a suit and I saw a young mon...

Padre Pio Quotes that have eternal significance

"If we only knew how God regards this Sacrifice, we would risk our lives to be present at a single Mass." "Prayer is the be...