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17 March 2025

A Saint Patrick’s Day
‘virtual tour’ of a dozen
churches and cathedrals
dedicated to Saint Patrick

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A statue of Saint Patrick in Saint Patrick’s Church, Soho Square, London (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2025) Patrick Comerford Today i...

01 November 2020

When the meek are blessed
along with all the saints who
are silenced and forgotten

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Saints and Martyrs … the ten martyrs of the 20th century above the West Door of Westminster Abbey (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick...

13 March 2020

Ballyragget Castle
A ‘sleeping giant’
with hidden potential

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Ballyragget Castle, once the principal residence of the Mountgarret branch of the Butler dynasty (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick C...

12 March 2020

How the best laid schemes
of priests and people go awry,
from Killaloe to Myanmar

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The Hedgehog in Lichfield reopens next week … I’m still hoping to stay there the week after next (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019) Pa...

24 February 2019

Mission must never ignore
the centrality of the liturgy and
our responsibility for creation

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The 24 elders and four evangelists before the Lamb of God on the Throne … the Altar in a church in Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny (Photograph: P...

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A Saint Patrick’s Day ‘virtual tour’ of a dozen churches and cathedrals dedicated to Saint Patrick

When the meek are blessed along with all the saints who are silenced and forgotten

Ballyragget Castle A ‘sleeping giant’ with hidden potential

How the best laid schemes of priests and people go awry, from Killaloe to Myanmar

Mission must never ignore the centrality of the liturgy and our responsibility for creation

A Saint Patrick’s Day
‘virtual tour’ of a dozen
churches and cathedrals
dedicated to Saint Patrick

When the meek are blessed
along with all the saints who
are silenced and forgotten

Ballyragget Castle
A ‘sleeping giant’
with hidden potential

How the best laid schemes
of priests and people go awry,
from Killaloe to Myanmar

Mission must never ignore
the centrality of the liturgy and
our responsibility for creation