ESSENTIAL workers received a `blessing of the hands' in place of the Catholic Church's traditional `washing of the feet' ceremony yesterday to mark Holy Thursday.
In his latest book A Look of Love - Witnesses to Jesus, Belfast author Jim Deeds shares a series of imagined conversations, stories and poems based on the life of Jesus and his early followers. This extract for Easter, inspired by Mark 15:21-41, brings readers face to face with the cross
Former Presbyterian Moderator the Rev Dr Norman Hamilton has been thanked by Pope Francis for his contribution to Faith matters and his observations on the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti. In this article, he argues that while vaccines offer a way out of our Covid-19 prisons, there is no simple cure for another modern public health crisis - loneliness. We all have a part to play in addressing it, he says