Month: September 2014

The former Administrator of Derry diocese has been appointed a Parish Priest in the clerical changes which take effect this week. Fr Francis Bradley took over as administrator last year when the previous administrator, Eamon Martin, was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh. He became the Priest-in-Residence in Buncrana after the appointment of Bishop Donal McKeown…

The Church should make “unconventional couples” feel at home instead of making them targets of “de facto discrimination,” the leader of the Italian bishops’ conference has said. “Couples in irregular matrimonial situations are also Christians, but they are sometimes looked upon with prejudice,” said Bishop Nunzio Galantino, an apparent reference to divorced and remarried Catholics.…

RTÉ’s Would You Believe programme, broadcast at 10:30pm on September 14, will follow the preparation and production of the Passion in Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick, this year. The play attracted 6,000 people to watch a re-enactment of the final hours of Jesus’ life on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. The event, planned for 12 months, brought…