Fr. Benedict Kiely

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  • Nov 1, 2024
    My visit to Iraq in 2016, right before the U.S. election which produced a Trump victory, was an enlightening experience. ISIS had driven out the Christian population of the region of...
  • Sep 9, 2024
    For those of us who care, this increased denial of people and place, their history and culture, as a weapon of war, must be fought vigorously. The defence of Christian Armenia...
  • Apr 24, 2024
    We are now in apostolic times. The Faith and faithful families changed the culture and created Christian civilisation in the past. The Faith, witnessed by fervent preaching and...
  • Mar 29, 2024
    Most people know the apocryphal story of the person who goes into the jewellery store and asks for a Cross, to be questioned by the assistant, “one with the little man on it,...
  • Mar 4, 2024
    Eating a meal of fresh fish, drinking local wine and apricot brandy, and looking across Lake Sevan after attempting and failing to climb a high staircase up a mountainside to reach...