Representatives from the Breffni Vintage Club with Seán Coll, Director of the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre (left) and Fr Enda Murphy, Diocesan Director of Pastoral Services (right) preparing for a Vintage & Classic Car, Motor Cycle, Tractor and Machinery Display in the grounds of the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Cavan Town on Sunday, August 31…

A group of young people who attended a special Mass and blessing of hands last Sunday in the Church of St Therese in Mount Merrion, Dublin for those who will help care for the sick on the Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes which takes place next month. Photo: John McElroy.

Last weekend a large crowd filled the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires in Argentina to watch the blessing and enthroning of a statue of Our Lady of Knock. Over 400,000 thousand people in Argentina claim Irish descent and are “very proud of the same”, according to Fr Tom O´Donnell, a Pallottine priest from Templeglantine, Co.…

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A new chaplain has been appointed to the annual National Traditional Pilgrimage to Knock, which is expected to draw a large crowd next month. Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam has appointed Fr John Loftus PP, Binghamstown Belmullet as chaplain to the Latin Mass Pilgrimage. A monthly Latin Mass was established by Archbishop Neary in 2011…

Pope Emeritus continues to pray for Ireland

Archbishop Eamon Martin, Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh, has invited parishes to take part in Rosary Sunday for the intention of the ‘family’. Rosary Sunday, an initiative from the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, will be celebrated in parishes across Ireland on Sunday, October 5, the day on which the Church celebrates the ‘Day for Life 2014’.…