COMMENT With Trócaire’s annual Lenten appeal underway, Kevin Hegarty looks at this year’s campaign focus: South Sudan
A time to give
Second Reading
An Irish Schindler
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the extraordinary life of Mary Elmes, who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis
Daring to dream
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Pope Francis’s new book ‘Let Us Dream’, a collaboration with biographer Austin Ivereigh
The colourful legacy of Evie Hone
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the life and career of celebrated Irish stained-glass artist Evie Hone
‘Great Stuff’
COMMENT In a tribute to the late John O’Donohue, Kevin Hegarty looks back on his friend’s college days
Not to be forgotten
OPINION Fr Kevin Hegarty on the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes’ final report
The first artist to broadcast Achill’s beauty
COMMENT Alexander Williams, the first artist to make Achill well known, died 90 years ago this month
A legacy of opportunity
COMMENT Kevin Hegarty on the life of former Education Minister Donogh O’Malley, who introduced free second-level education in 1966
Heroism in Auschwitz
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Saint Maximilian Kolbe, murdered at Auschwitz in 1941 after volunteering to die in place of another
Art as contemplation of the holy
COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on Mayo-born liturgical artist Richard King’s life and contribution
The environmental imperative
OPINION ‘Care for the environment is the existential moral challenge of our time’, writes Fr Kevin Hegarty