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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More than your neighbour, are you:
• Feeling a bit more connected to the earth?
• Living life as if it will go on long after death?
• […]

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Well that didn’t take long.
The planned exhibition in New York over Easter, that we mentioned yesterday, of the sculpture of a naked crucified Jesus […]

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As the western Christian world gears up to celebrating the most important week in the Christian calendar, by gorging on large chocolate eggs (where I’m […]

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Remember a year ago I told you about the almost unbelieveably obnoxious Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas calling Irish poet Desmond Egan a […]

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Deliver Us From Evil, the Oscar-nominated documentary about the notorious pedophile, the Irish Catholic priest, Oliver O’Grady, continues at the Screenland in downtown Kansas City […]

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Just a thought. Given that Saint Brigid is Ireland’s most important saint after St. Patrick, and so many people use the Feast Day of Saint […]

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Those of you following the U2charist, well, why? But if you are you’ll probably be interested in its continuing growth.
As I’ve mentioned before, U2 have […]

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Resting Places is the documentary by Melissa Villanueva on the growth in the Western World of roadside Christian crosses marking where loved ones lost their […]

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