Vatican is to poll parishes on sensitive family issues

Panama – The country’s leading prelate has called for concrete efforts to tackle violence after a priest was murdered in broad daylight during a robbery. Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta of Panama decried the murder and criticised the ability of the priest’s killers to operate in daylight, apparently without fear of being captured. "It happened…

Irish soccer legend reveals faith in God

In a digital age where millions of people follow Pope Francis on Twitter, the Church may soon have the first ‘tech geek’ saint in a 15-year-old boy who died of Leukaemia. Carlo Acutis (pictured), who was fiercely passionate about computers and animals, died in Milan in 2006. However, friends say his first love was God…

A call to establish safeguarding children committees in every parish in the Diocese of Cloyne was endorsed by Bishop William Crean at the second biennial Safeguarding Children Conference last month. The conference heard that the work associated with fully implementing the comprehensive safeguarding children policies and procedures in the diocese has impacted significantly on the…

Fr Patrick Devine received the 2013 International Caring Award in Washington DC last week

Parish hosts three day event