Overseas priests call for renewed drive to foster home-grown vocations Ireland cannot rely indefinitely on overseas priests to compensate for falling local vocations and needs a renewed drive to encourage Irish men toward the priesthood, missionary priests serving in Ireland have told The Irish Catholic. “I’ll serve as a jack. I’ll lift your car, but…
“The family of faith is the greatest gift” parents can give their children, Fr Willie Purcell has said, as relics of Sts Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux, were welcomed to the Carmelite Monastery in Tallow, Co. Waterford. The relics of the canonised married couple and their daughter St Thérèse…
Speaking ahead of the opening of a new fertility and female health centre in Co. Meath, co-owner Kay O’Dwyer and NaPro Fertility doctor Kirsty Chapman, who runs a clinic at the centre, said the education on female sexual health from a Catholic perspective is lacking in the current curriculum. The St Brigid’s Centre of Female…
Commenting after Irish Aid published their 2025 Annual Report, which demonstrated Ireland’s leading role in overseas development aid, Trócaire CEO Seán Farrell said the organisation “remain[s] grateful to Irish Aid, Barry Andrews MEP, and Minister Neale Richmond’s continued support and commitment to our programmes.” In a recent interview with this newspaper, Mr Farrell also cited…
During the US President’s courtesy call to Áras an Uachtaráin on Saturday, September 12, President Connolly presented President Trump with three gifts: a St Brigid’s Cross, a copy of the book Navigato Sancti Brendani – The Voyage of St Brendan and a collection of Michael Longley poems, including his sonnet ‘Ceasefire’. The gifts reflected the…
