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1 week ago | 
independent.ie | Mary Kenny
Mary Kenny: Why there’s a ‘Catholic renaissance’ taking place in Britain, especially among Gen ZPope Francis addresses the faithful on Palm Sunday in St Peter's Square at The Vatican last Sunday. Photo: Gregorio Borgia/APMichael Collins once quipped that Ireland was only a Catholic country because England was a Protestant one: if England had been Catholic, the Irish might have gone in the opposite direction.
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1 week ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
Is Rory a herald of a united Ireland? And is golf now revolutionary?
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2 weeks ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
Here’s a thing: I really would like to hear a sermon on the tangled issue of finance. It could be called ‘the moral maze of money.’ What are we to make of waking up each morning to the heated discussions about ‘the markets’? We tremble to hear that the Nikkei (Japan) has crashed, the Hang…
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Mary Kenny
Grace Davidson, the 36-year-old British woman who has recently given birth to her first child, was born without a womb. Both her sisters offered her theirs when she was hoping for a transplant. The transplanted womb came from her sister Amy, then 40, who had had two children and felt no further use for her uterus. But the operation to remove it was quite painful, with a risk of complications, and Amy took some time to recover.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
When the history-books are written, it is quite likely that the most influential Irishman of our time will be Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair. Yes, Clongowes-educated Mr O’Leary has probably made more impact on our world than all the politicians, leaders and general celebrities put together. He has made his low-budget airline the most dominant…
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1 month ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
The Annunciation, fresco by Fra Angelico, 1438–45; in the Museum of San Marco, Florence. Photo Encyclopædia Britannica. I was married on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, many moons ago, back in the 1970s. Friends said “You’re mad! Getting hitched at the end of the tax year – such bad timing!” I have always borne in mind, ever since, that money and fiscal policies often have quite an influence on matrimonial…
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1 month ago | 
independent.ie | Mary Kenny
My own mother could be sceptical about Mother’s Day, seeing it as more of a commercial enterprise than a tribute to the status of maternity. In her generation of the 20th century, women were more acutely aware of the dangers of maternity. Throughout the ages women had died in excruciating conditions from obstructed births, puerperal fever and the dreaded eclampsia – seizures due to high blood pressure in pregnancy. Motherhood was more about bravery and sacrifice than chocolates and flowers.
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1 month ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
The modern trend in education is towards the co-ed school. Single-sex schools are in decline, and often regarded as archaic relics of a past time, unhealthily segregating boys and girls, Taliban-style. But what strikes me as I watch schoolkids piling boisterously onto trains and buses is how uneven the physical development of boys and girls…
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1 month ago | 
independent.ie | Mary Kenny
Mary Kenny: Why the visit of a British royal divorcee to the Vatican is seen by many as a historic momentBuckingham Palace considers Charles and Camilla’s planned meeting with Pope Francis the greatest move forward in Anglican-Catholic relations since the ReformationWallis Simpson and Britain's Prince Edward after after their controversial marriage in 1937What?! A divorcee at the Vatican? Pardon me – a *royal* divorcee sharing a religious service with the Pope in the Sistine Chapel.
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1 month ago | 
theoldie.co.uk | Mary Kenny
The electoral constituency of Dover and Deal comprises two English coastal towns, just eight miles apart. And it's rather sad to observe the contrast between the two.
Deal is repeatedly named as being among the ‘50 best places to live’. The Financial Times has dubbed it Hoxton-on-Sea, an allusion to its fashionable hipster status.
Meanwhile, poor old Dover has drifted well down the popularity charts.
