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Welcome
Fáilte, Welcome
to the website for the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland
Bishop William Crean
St Teresa Teresa is a witness to the beautiful dimension of faith. When she speaks of it, she is categorical: ‘The fact of seeing Christ left an impression of his exceeding beauty etched on my soul to this day: once was enough’. Read More
Light-Filled Lamp A wonderful text from St Columbanus’s Instructions in today’s vigils: ‘I am a lowly creature but I am still his servant, and I hope that he will choose to wake me from slumber. I hope that he will set me Read More
Desert Fathers 42
Desert Fathers 42
You can find this episode in video format here – a dedicated page – and pick it up in audio wherever you listen to podcasts. On YouTube, the full range of episodes can be found here. 
Isaac the Theban went to Read More
A Conversation in Lisbon
A Conversation in Lisbon
My book Chastity was recently published in a fine Portuguese version.
I was fortunate on that occasion to engage in a conversation with my translator, Joana Viana Lopes, and a group of young people at the Catholic University in Lisbon, being on Read More
28. Sunday C
28. Sunday C
2 Kings 5:14-17: Now, please, accept a present from your servant. 
2 Timothy 2:8-13: He is always faithful, for he cannot disown his own self.  
Luke 17:11-19: One of them turned back praising God. 
Our readings invite us to reflect on the Read More