The Vatican has held up Ireland’s missionary monks as a model for responding to cultural upheaval while calling for an investigation into the “sudden decline in Catholicism” in countries where faith was once deeply rooted. In Venite ad me, published on October 22, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith says Irish monasticism helped…
A painting of Our Lady of Šiluva was sent to Ireland and will go on pilgrimage around the country before finding its final destination in Knock. This is to mark 50 years since Irish solicitor Gerard O’Mahony, inspired by the Helsinki Accords, suggested sending a statue of Our Lady to Lithuanian Catholics facing persecution under…
Bro. Richard Hendrick recounts deathbed encounters from his years as a hospital chaplain The head of the Capuchin Franciscans in Ireland has spoken of moments when “the two worlds come close together” at the hour of death, describing encounters with the dead at hospital bedsides and in his own family. Bro. Richard Hendrick OFM Cap.,…
Fr Brendan Hoban accuses traditionalist groups of trying to ‘control’ National Assembly A prominent west of Ireland priest has sparked fury by suggesting that some conservative groups at the recent National Synodal Assembly may not have had a legitimate right to be there as Catholics. In an extraordinary broadside, Fr Brendan Hoban, a co-founder…
Facing a potential closure as the result of Development Proposal 754, St Columba’s Primary School in Newbuildings, Co. Derry is receiving an influx of community support from its Protestant neighbours, educators and families. The small Catholic-maintained primary school lies in the predominantly Protestant village of Newbuildings, and has an established Shared Education partnership with the…
