Over the last number of months, a number of enthusiastic RE and music teachers within the Archdiocese of Tuam have been working on a new project which will bring 300 young people together to perform a charity concert. Awakening will be a performance of a combination of modern church and contemporary music which will raise…
Thornhill Ministries in Derry is celebrating a ‘Jubilee of Consolation’ with a festival of flowers entitled ‘Dry the Tears’. The festival is being hosted by Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Steelstown Road, Derry on the weekend of May 6-8 and follows on from the vigil to “dry the tears” which Pope Francis is celebrating in…
Philippine Catholics should pray the Rosary each day until the May 9 elections, the country’s bishops have said. On behalf of the national bishops’ conference, Lingayen-Dagupan’s Archbishop Socrates Villegas issued a statement reminding voters of the power of prayer. “Pray the mysteries of joy, light, sorrow and glory every day, until May 9,” he said.…
Pope’s meeting with Sanders wasn’t endorsement Pope Francis has dismissed suggestions that he has somehow endorsed US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders by meeting with him in the Vatican. The Vermont senator was in the Vatican to participate in the ‘Centesimus Annus’ Conference on Catholic Social Teaching and had stayed the night at Casa Santa Marta, where the Pope lives. Speaking…
The Church has become the target of indigenous anger, writes Paul Keenan “We are going to burn all churches.” Thus declared the note left at the ruins of the Christian Union Evangelical church in Ercilla, Chile, after an arson attack on March 31 laid waste to the structure. No such threat was uncovered at the…
Dear Editor, At a time when the role of third level chaplains is being questioned (IC 14/04/2016 ‘Mass attendance a crude measure of chaplaincy support services’) perhaps it is time to look again at clergy deployment priorities. The question I would ask is, why are some parishes being deprived of their full-time priest and yet…
Dear Editor, I notice that, while The Irish Catholic is now featuring a great number of advertisements, the Letters Page is more frequently missing. Do you plan to restore the Letters Page? I can assure you that it is very popular – and much missed by your readers. Yours faithfully, Isabella Corr, Greyabbey, Co. Down
Coming up to your first Holy Communion usually you will receive your very first pair of rosary beads. While you may pick up more sets of rosary beads as you grow up, the ones you receive on your Communion day are beads that you will carry with you for life. Therefore it is important to…
My dear father, Joseph Louis Conroy, Joe to most of his family and friends, died a month ago. No matter what age a parent is or how long they’ve been battling illness, whether sudden or unexpected, nothing prepares you for that final farewell. Although my father had been diagnosed with cancer some years ago, had…
The Church teaches that ecclesiastical ministry is exercised in different degrees, writes Cathal Barry The ministerial priesthood has the task not only of representing Christ before the assembly of the faithful, but also of acting in the name of the whole Church when presenting to God the prayer of the Church, and above all when…
Mags Gargan
Paul Keenan
Erin Fox
Maria Byrne
Cathal Barry