Seán Walsh: May 1951.Franciscan Novitiate, the Friary, Killarney.

A weekday morning. We filed into the Refectory to breakfast. I took my place at table, reached for the napkin on my side plate – and froze. There, carefully concealed, the wrapping from a packet of twenty… And I knew, even as I checked the faces of my fellow novices at table that Brother Bernard […]

Seán Walsh: May 1951.Franciscan Novitiate, the Friary, Killarney.
A weekday morning. We filed into the Refectory to breakfast. I took my place at table, reached for the napkin on my side plate – and froze. There, carefully concealed, the wrapping from a packet of twenty… And I knew, even as I checked the faces of my fellow novices at table that Brother Bernard […]