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Church / Diocese of Cork & Ross

A priest shepherds with the Lord and finds the Lord

When Jesus scanned the countryside looking for an image to help people understand God, he spotted sheep and lambs in their pastures. Among them stood men with staffs in their …

Church / Diocese of Cork & Ross

When I’m on a path with no followers!

Never in my wildest dreams have I thought I’d be typing this: The Diocese of Cork and Ross, in which I minister, doesn’t have any student priest in our national …

Church / Diocese of Cork & Ross / Musings!

Living in a disappearing priesthood

My historical sense of catholicism in Ireland, which I learned in school, was speckled with events that were depicted as reference points in Irish history. The Wild Geese, Cromwell, Fr Murphy of …

Back along / Church / Published columns

All is changed … but parish faith endures

I believed, as a young lad, that Drimoleague was a dangerous place to be a parish priest. It wasn’t because I believed the work was particularly difficult or that the …

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