50 young people from across the Archdiocese of Dublin were the first ever recipients of a John Paul II Award at a special ceremony City Hall on Thursday, 29 September. The awards, for commitment and participation in parish and community events, were presented to the young people by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
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Spend time in jail or with Jesus.
These are the options that one Alabama town is giving its non-violent offenders.
The program is called Operation Restore Our Community, WKRG reports. Bay Minette citizens charged with a misdemeanor can choose spending a year’s worth of Sundays in a local church rather than paying a fine and sitting in…
BERLIN — Pope Benedict XVI made a historic visit on Friday to the monastery where Martin Luther studied before he initiated the Reformation that led to a split from the Catholic Church nearly 500 years ago.
By visiting the monastery in the eastern German city of Erfurt, a region that is considered the heartland of…
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the Dead Sea Scrolls have gone online for the first time in a project launched by Israel’s national museum and Google.
The appearance of five of the most important scrolls on the internet is part of a broader…
It was an encounter the global superstar probably wasn’t expecting as the shooting of her video got underway in a field in Bangor, County Down.
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NOSTRA / Public Lecture Series
Mary Immaculate College
21/09/11 – 09/11/11
The module covers the history of the Universe from the Big Bang to the present. It examines the spectacular creativity of the processes leading to the emergence of Earth and the intelligent creativity of the evolutionary process, including that of our hominid ancestors. It explores the insights…
Moviegoers who see the new Gerard Butler headlining film “Machine Gun Preacher,” based on the life of heroin-addict-turned-Christian-child-crusader Sam Childers, would understandably believe Hollywood exaggerated the story for entertainment purposes. But they’ll be surprise to know that the real life of Childers was too much for even Hollywood
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After 9/11, some run toward faith, some run the other way…
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A phone company’s advertisement featuring a cartoon picture of Jesus winking and giving a thumbs-up sign has been banned for being “disrespectful”.
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