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Welcome
Fáilte, Welcome
to the website for the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland
Bishop William Crean
Splendour of Truth
Splendour of Truth
From the fifth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
Bernard keeps us on our toes. He states: ‘I would have you warned: no one lives on earth without temptation; if one is relieved of one, let him surely expect Read More
Becoming Free
Becoming Free
From the fourth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
The notion of ‘freedom’ has become contentious in public discourse. Freedom is a good to which we all aspire; we rise up against anything which threatens to curtail or confine Read More
God’s Help
God’s Help
From the third conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
Mary Ward, that great Christian educator of the 17th century, used to tell her sisters: ‘Do your best and God will help’.
The notion that God can and will help us Read More
Bernard the Idealist
Bernard the Idealist
From the second conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
What sort of man was St Bernard? Where did he come from? He towers over the twelfth-century Cistercian movement: such were his charisma and industriousness. 
Many people, including some who should Read More
Entering Lent
Entering Lent
From the first conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
Lent confronts us with essentials. It takes us, materially and symbolically, into a space stripped of superfluities. Things apt to distract us, even things wholesome in themselves, are removed for Read More