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Fáilte, Welcome
to the website for the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland
Bishop William Crean
Magic Flute In general I hold to the principle: Don’t mess with Mozart. Why footle about with something that, most of the time, touches perfection? Andrea Binetti’s adaptation, though, is delightful. It works, musically and dramatically. Designed for children, this one-act version, Read More
Im- and Expressionism In a spare moment last week I went to see an exhibition currently on at the Museum of the Ara Pacis called ‘Impressionism and Beyond‘. I don’t think I’ve ever found a clearer, more pedagogical account of the movement from Read More
To Communicate Hope
To Communicate Hope
From the eleventh and last conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
On 11 October 1962 Pope Saint John XXIII solemnly opened the Second Vatican Council. The Council’s ‘greatest concern’, he said, would be ‘that the sacred deposit of Christian Read More
On Consideration
On Consideration
From the tenth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
St Bernard wrote a treatise On Consideration. It enjoyed the widest circulation of any of his works. This may seem odd, for the text is in essence a letter addressed Read More
Bernard the Realist
Bernard the Realist
From the ninth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
The identity of the Cistercian movement is forged in the interface between the ideal and the concrete, the poetic and the pragmatic. Its protagonists are tested and purified by tensions Read More