“Dear Ms Keane”, the letter began, “I’ve been given your name by a holy woman in prayer, and she has suggested that I contact you to ask if you could shed some light on a very trying and difficult situation that I find myself in. I believe you are a Clinical Nutritionist, and that you…
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It was early morning, and before I began my day, I was already in pain. I collected Marija my translator in Mostar, and one look told her that I’d been awake during the night and was suffering the aftermath of a high-speed rear-ending the previous year. I was feeling burdened and cranky about the work…
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The news was bleak in those early weeks 2009. For the previous nine months since the collapse of the stock exchange on St. Patrick’s Day, 2008 the news was perpetually bad. To add to the misery, it rained all that summer and conversations were absorbed with either the collapsing economy, job losses that we had…
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Susan paced the hospital corridor with her infant daughter crying in her arms. She was tense and anxious. Her leg muscles were weak from fear, and she was struggling to put one foot in front of the other. She was waiting for the paediatrician to call their two-year-old daughter, Eve for her appointment. The moment…
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“Radio Maria is a miracle that has amazed even the Holy See,” said its co-founder, Fr Livio Farzaga in an interview in 2008. Never did Fr Livio envisage that a small Catholic radio station, “unique and different from other Catholic Radio Stations”, with humble beginnings in a parish in Arcellasco d’Erba in the province of…
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A frail, sick, elderly woman lay on her bed. Deep lines of pain and sorrow were etched across her thin face. Her dark wavy hair glistened in the evening sunlight highlighting the odd strands of grey weaved through her tangled and tossed strands. She moaned in pain, and spoke in hushed tones, barely able to…
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by Patricia Keane Ben and his wife Brianna sat silently in court holding hands waiting for the judge to sentence his older brother Drew. Ben knew that on this occasion it wasn’t going to be a light sentence. It was Drew’s twenty-third conviction, and all eyes were on the Judge except Bens. He was looking…
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by Patricia Keane It was Saturday 26th May 2018, and the Pro-Life advocates around Ireland were reeling from shock as the results from the 8th Amendment Referendum were being delivered blow-by-blow, county-by-county. By 10 pm Irish time on polling day, the results from the Exit Polls had reached the Western Shores of America and as…
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Recently I met up with a journalist named Gloria who writes for a religious magazine. Within moments of chatting it was obvious that Gloria had read my book, Journey Of Ten Thousand Smiles. “I hope you don’t mind me saying this, but you don’t stammer anymore.” In chapter two of the book, I write about…
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