I’d never heard of St. Gallus until my last trip to Switzerland. While there, I discovered — and developed a healthy respect for — this humble Irish monk through whom God did great things. To ...

The 1990s bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill asserted that Irish monks, after the fall of the ...

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research papers primarily in the fields of archaeology and history, but also welcomes submissions on aspects ...

For the Church’s first seven centuries, penance could be received no more than once in a lifetime. That policy dated back to the time of St. Peter. The New Testament tells us... - Published on August ...

The endearingly earnest authors of “The Irish Buddhist” describe their book as “a detective story across two centuries.” Although their sleuthing is mostly archival, the tale they assemble is ...

Thomas Cahill’s book, "How the Irish Saved Civilization", spent two years on The New York Times bestseller list and sold over two million copies. Cahill passed away on October 18 at 82, leaving an ...

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