It’s Good Friday, an unofficial holiday in Ireland. This year some pubs are opening in defiance of the law. I don’t think too many people […]

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Christmas at Ephesus is the new CD by the Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles. Think harmonies, medieval chants, carols, that sort of thing.
Last year […]

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We’ve talked a fair bit about the Irish Wilderness in Miisouri, and the Kansas City bishop who was earlier the Father Hogan from Ireland who […]

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On Wednesday, the Diocese of Savannah are honoring Irishman Bishop Kevin J Boland for the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a priest. You’ll […]

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We’ve been to St Patrick’s Church before here on Irish KC, but as we approach the day that celebrates Ireland’s patron saint, there’s a nice […]

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The annual Gaelic Mass in Kansas City as part of the St Patrick’s Day season takes place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, or Redemptorist […]

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On September 14 gone, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church - what you may know as Redemptorist -next door to Cristo Rey High School, […]

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Sister Rita Smith is one of 3 Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL), Kansas who recently celebrated their 50th anniversaries.
The daughter of two Irish parents, […]

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Speaking of the clash of the Holy Day that is St Patrick’s Day, with the Holy Week that precedes Easter, the Kansas City Star had […]

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While America more than most countries is prone to the disease of moving celebrated days to weekends because it’s more convenient, the Catholic Church is […]

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The annual Gaelic mass which takes place in the St Patrick’s Day season, is on Saturday, March 8th, 2008 at 5:00pm.
It is being […]

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I told ya nuns hang around in twos like Irish mosquitoes.
Everybody else will be linking to this today, but it’s what happens when a […]

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Ireland’s Sunday Independent yesterday carried a message for the people of Ireland from the Westboro Baptist Church.
It was delivered in a lengthy article written by […]

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Finbar Lebowitz is this week’s Sunday Short - the irregular post I do featuring an Irish short film.
Made in 2000 and set in Dublin, it’s […]

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To show you I don’t lie.
A photo. Of a church sign.
Since writing about it last November, I’ve nothing new to say about this notion of […]

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Speaking of Irish pessism, some readers of Irish KC will be interested in the recent celebration of Bishop Boland’s 50th anniversary of his ordination into […]

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Do you remember Christmas when we talked about the lovely story concerning the Bishop of Southwark after an Irish party in England?
At the time it […]

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Barbara O’Connor is a Jewish woman from Overland Park in Kansas. She is married to an Irish Catholic man.
The OP couple are featured in an […]

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I knew that BBC documentary on Kansas lovely Phelps’ family would have an impact on home. And by home I mean Ireland, not Waldo.
From BBC […]

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The first time I didn’t fast on a Good Friday I was on a train in North Wales.
I didn’t know I wasn’t fasting; after my […]

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