Participants at the annual celebration of consecrated life which took took place on February 3 in Terenure College chapel in Dublin, with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin officiating. Pope Francis has set 2015 as a Year for Consecrated Life. Photo: John Mc Elroy.

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal setting up a new friary in Galliagh

Bishop Brendan Leahy pictured in Corpus Christi Primary School in Moyross, Limerick, with Fr Tony O'Riordan, school principal, Tiernan O'Neill and pupils who made their own contribution to Limerick's year as City of Culture by producing a calendar depicting special moments they hope to enjoy in 2014. Photo: Keith Wiseman

“We have to treat alcohol with respect”

Last Saturday the Irish Bishops Drugs Initiative held a national conference in Dublin with the theme ‘Quenching the Thirst: Spirituality and Addiction’. Among the speakers were Dublin footballer Ger Brennan and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (centre) who is pictured with Trish Conway, Chair of the Irish Bishops Drugs Initiative and John Taaffe, National co-ordinator of the…

Priests have praised the volunteers working in flooded parishes

People looking for Mass cards are mistakenly buying expensive sympathy cards

The pupils in Kilmoyley National School inArdfert, Co. Kerry celebrated Catholic Schools Week by honouring St Brigid last week, and their St Brigid’s crosses were blessed by Fr Tadhg Fitzgerald at both Masses in The Sacred Heart Church, Kilmoyley last weekend.