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Month: November 2013
Zimbabwe cathedral reveives basilica honour
Zimbabwe – St Mary’s Cathedral of Bulawayo has become the only Minority Basilica across southern Africa following its awarding by Pope Francis. “This building qualifies to be a basilica because of its centrality to the colonial struggles in Southern Africa as well as its age,” Archbishop Alex Thomas said in announcing the new title for…
Catholic schools “must be allowed to be Catholic”
Cathal BarryThree leading Catholic academics have criticised a Department of Education survey seeking views on how Church-run schools can be made more inclusive. Prof Eamonn Conway, Dr Eugene Duffy and Dr Rik Van Nieuwenhove, from the Dept. of Theology & Religious Studies at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick sent their submission in a personal capacity to…
The other side of Murphy Report
Fr Padraig McCarthy tells Cathal Barry the Murphy Report needs further examining
Memories of a mission
In 1963, a group of six Irish Spiritan priests set out on the long missionary journey to Brazil to work in a number of already established parish communities in the country’s interior. The move was in response to Pope John XXIII’s appeal for missionaries to Latin America to combat communism and counteract the inroads of…
Spiritan projects
Cathal Barry visits missionary projects set up by Irish Spiritans in Brazil
Pope’s heroic role to hit big screen
New film planned based on heroic work of Pope Francis in saving hundreds of people from the Argentinian dictatorship
Fullness of all Revelation
Cathal Barry takes a look at the Church’s teaching on Divine Revelation
Tributes paid to Irish biblical scholar
Fr Jerome Murphy-O’Connor OP, who died in the early hours of November 11 in Jerusalem, has been described as a “colossus” in biblical scholarship. The Cork-native spent more than 45 years working and researching in the Holy Land. Born in 1935, he was acknowledged as one of the foremost New Testament scholars in the world,…
Priest survives vicious assault
South Africa – A Catholic priest is recovering after a man whom he earlier helped attacked him and left him for dead in the city of Pretoria. Fr Craigh Laubscher of St John Fisher Catholic Church had just left his church when he was set upon by the man. The priest was severely beaten and…