Sean Connolly

1 month ago | catholicworldreport.com | Sean Connolly |Carl Olson

Left: The front of St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, Ireland; right: The nave of the Cathedral. (Images: Wikipedia)For most American Catholics, the name “St. Patrick’s Cathedral” conjures up an image of the neo-Gothic church with its twin spires on New York City’s Fifth Avenue—a cathedral now dwarfed by the skyscrapers of glass all around it.

Dec 6, 2024 | wanderlustmagazine.com | Sean Connolly

Gambia•Nature & Wildlife The Gambia’s reputation as a sandy escape belies how wild and green it can be. Away from the beach bars, you’ll find chimp-filled islands and 600-plus species of bird… Sean Connolly 06 December 2024 Link copied! Chimpanzee in The Gambia (Alamy) Cutting a narrow slice into Africa’s westernmost bulge, The Gambia stretches more than 300km east to west, but barely 50km from north to south.

Dec 4, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Sean Connolly

Perched between Norway and Canada at the farthest reaches of the north Atlantic, Greenland is both the world’s largest island and its most sparsely populated territory, covering an area 10 times the size of Britain and home to only 57,000 hardy souls. More than one-third of Greenlanders live in the capital, Nuuk, tucked inside the fjord-indented south-western coast. More than 80 per cent of this wild land is blanketed in an ice sheet nearly two miles thick.

Dec 3, 2024 | einnews.com | Sean Connolly

NALT Protects Open Space along Florida’s Gulf Coast with Permanent Conservation Easement NALT has a long, proud history of partnering with municipalities across the country to help achieve their local conservation goals.” — NALT President Steven Carter CHADDS FORD, PA, UNITED STATES, December 3, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- North American Land Trust today announced that it has joined the City of Naples, Florida, and The Athens Group in permanently protecting 105 acres along the Gulf Coast of...

Nov 16, 2024 | catholicworldreport.com | Sean Connolly

A piece of the fresco from Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg. (Image: Wikipedia)An intriguing medieval fresco can be found in the church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg, France. It depicts fifteen kings processing by horseback, each carrying a standard bearing the name of his respective nation. The image is known as the “March of the Nations toward Christianity.” It depicts the chronological order of when each nation was baptized.