Cathal BarryA major fundraising drive for World Meeting of Families in Dublin in 2018 is set to be rolled out at Masses across the country this weekend. The Irish Catholic understands that a target of €12 million has been set to support the hosting of the event, which will be held in Dublin from August 22-26,…
Month: May 2016
The Asian Pope Francis
Mags GarganMags Gargan meets the Filipino cardinal tipped to be the next Pontiff
Marriage in the Church
The Church teaches that marriage between baptised persons is a true sacrament, writes Cathal Barry
De La Salle schools’ presentations
The De La Salle Mission Council in Ireland organised a schools’ presentation for eight primary and secondary schools recently. Schools from Macroom, Castlebar, Dundalk, Waterford and Dublin submitted a variety of projects on the theme: Who is St John Baptist de la Salle? Over a hundred students and teachers displayed and edited their projects in…
Sister’s murder will not stop Sudan mission
Courtney McGrailA Slovak nun shot and wounded in South Sudan has died in a Nairobi hospital where she had been in a coma. Holy Spirit Missionary Sister Veronika Terezia Rackova, the director of Yei’s St Bakhita Medical was evacuated to Nairobi on May 17, shortly after being shot in the stomach while driving an ambulance. Soldiers…
News of the late lamented Bible society shop
Many serious readers of religious books, both historical and theological, from all Christian traditions, will have lamented the recent sudden overnight closure of the National Bible Society ‘Bestseller book shop’ (pictured) at 41 Dawson Street, Dublin, in which (so I understood) the Catholic Hierarchy also had a share. The closure was never explained to the…
Mercy on the peak of the Reek
Last Saturday 103 young people went on the annual Tuam DYC pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick, joined by the Papal Cross group from Elphin diocese who were led by Bishop Kevin Doran. Fr Shane Sullivan, pictured hearing a pilgrim’s Confession, was homilist at Mass on the summit.
A backward look at the men who made us
The Shaping of Modern Ireland – A Centenary Assessment edited by Eugenio Biagini and Daniel Mulhall (Irish Academic Press, €22.50pb/€45.00hb).
Some commentators accused of cherry- picking Pope’s words
The satirical Catholic website eyeofthetiber.com could hardly have reacted more snidely to reports that Pope Francis has called for a commission to investigate the possibility of ordaining women deacons than with the headline, “Pope To Commission Study To Find More Ways He Can Confuse People”. Claiming that the Pontiff had revealed “an openness to re-examining…
Touching the suffering of Christ
Michael Kelly“Christ’s body was real, his suffering was real. We might say that humanity left its mark on him, and the human condition took its toll”, writes Editor Michael Kelly