Fr Dave McGarry is dead. How I hate writing those words but it was coming up and I was steeling myself for the final news. I was on the platform of Connolly Station in Dublin, having caught the Saturday morning early train, when my wife, Helen, rang to tell me Dave had died on Friday, 14th December 2012. I am… (more…)
I have just been watching the film by Jason Berry of Marciel Maciel, a Mexican Catholic priest, who formed the religious orders of Legion Of Christ for men and Regnum Christie for women. Both orders have massive support in the Americas and since the 1940s Maciel had been fund raising and building seminaries there for fledgling priests. Numbering among his… (more…)
A fellow called Geoffrey Burke was our headmaster at school, St. Bede’s College, the premier Catholic Grammar School in Manchester and its environs. He eventually became an Auxilliary Bishop of Salford in 1967, only four years after I was hounded out of the school. I might have been holding him back. I knew Geoff well as he was a friend… (more…)