Month: November 2013

A newly established confraternity for Irish clergy hopes to support clerics in their lives and ministry, the group’s chairman has said. Established during a meeting of priests in Knock, Co. Mayo in late October, the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is based on successful bodies already working for the wellbeing of priests in Australia, the United…

The Irish Medjugorje Centre has said the Vatican’s instruction to Catholics not to participate in events where the Medjugorje visionaries promise Marian apparitions will not affect the huge numbers of devotees that regularly travel to the Bosnia-Herzegovina shrine. Spokeswoman for the Irish Medjugorje Centre, Noelle Campbell, told The Irish Catholic “more and more people are…