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An Tairseach, A Dominican Ecology Project in Wicklow Town, Ireland..   At our General Chapter in 1992 the Dominican Sisters chose “Care of the Earth” as one of the priorities for our lives and mission. We said then: We are aware of the ever increasing crisis on planet Earth... Read More

CABRA DOMINICANS, LATIN AMERICA AND VATICAN II My life as a Dominican began with the opening of the second Vatican Council in October 1962 when I entered the Congregation as a postulant. On our first day in Kerdiffstown, we, the new postulants, together with all the community,... Read More

  LAY PARTICIPATION IN PARISH LIFE   I belong to the parish of Balally, in the foothills of the Dublin mountains. I have experienced the parish as a place of invitation, challenge and an opportunity to grow . Invitation came from local curate in Sandyford about 1979 to the... Read More

Journalism (Michael Commane O.P) My first link with the world of newspapers was in the late 1950s when my uncle, John D Hickey, would come back to my aunt’s house in Thurles having covered a Munster final. He had to file his report back to Abbey Street and I was given the job of... Read More

Seminar:  Remembering, Reclaiming, Proclaiming. 50 Years after Vatican II.   Bringing it Back Home Genevieve Mooney, O.P.            We’ve been looking at what was happening at Vatican II in such areas as liturgy, scripture, etc.  This paper will be a change of pace and a change... Read More

MISSION AND MINISTRY IN LOUISIANA Sister Helen Mary Harmey,OP     In 1860 seven sisters from Cabra went to New Orleans, Louisiana and founded what was to become St. Mary’s Congregation, New Orleans. In 1968 three years after Vatican II, St. Mary’s requested sisters from... Read More

VATICAN II AND THE REST OF US… Most Reverend Richard Clarke In my undergraduate days in the late 1960s, one of the cult novels of the period (probably particularly in TCD in which much of it was based) was J P Donleavy’s The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthasar B. I hope you won’t... Read More