Priests and other parish workers should make time for parishioners, rather than erecting barriers, Pope Francis has warned. He said deacons, in particular, are called to be servants who set aside their own self-serving plans and are generous with their lives. A servant “is not a slave to his own agenda” but rather is always…
The Diocese of Cloyne and the Diocese of Waterford are co-hosting the inaugural ‘Knockadoon Boys Faith Camp’ for boys aged between 12 and 16 from Sunday, June 5 at 5pm to Saturday, June 11 at 1pm. The camp is a one-week (six nights), stay-on-site, full-board stay at the Dominican camp in the pictureque sea-side village…
The National Vocations Coordinator has hailed the “amazing” response he received to a pilot programme which consulted young people about the best way to promote vocations to the priesthood. Fr Willie Purcell, based in the Diocese of Ossory, consulted with three groups of young people over recent weeks – a secondary school group, those involved…
Consultant’s volte-face in Vatican court hearing A former consultant to a pontifical commission who denied to a Vatican court that she leaked documents about Vatican financial reform admitted to sending the documents when originally interrogated, a Vatican policeman has said. Stefano DeSantis, an officer investigating the matter, testified on May 24 that Francesca Chaouqui, one of five people on trial…
In The Wake of The Rising: A Special edition of The Stinging Fly edited by Sean O’Reilly (Issue 33, Volume Two, €15)
Heraldic Dublin – The Three Castles of Dublin: An Eclectic History of Dublin through the Evolution of the City’s Coat of Arms by Michael English (Four Courts Press for Dublin City Council, €29.95)
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny 1190-1610: Custom and conflict in a baronial town by Adrian Empey The middle class of Callan, Co Kilkenny 1825-45 by Pierce A. Grace Crime in the city: Kilkenny in 1845 by Fergal Donoghue (Maynooth Studies in Local History / Four Courts Press, €9.95 each)
Conspiracy-minded Catholics are up in arms online after claims that Pope Francis’ long awaited post-synodal exhortation was ghost-written by an old Argentinian friend. Writing at chiesa.expressonline.it, long-time Vaticanista Sandro Magister, whose press credentials were withdrawn by the Holy See last year after his involvement in publishing in advance a leaked version of the Pope’s environmental…
Fr Martin Delaney reflects on a powerful memory
Holy See/university thaw is welcomed The restoration of friendly relations between the Holy See and the Islamic University of al Azhar has been welcomed by the Coptic Catholic Patriarch. Expressing a hope that the friendly encounter between Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed al Tayyib “will give new vigour to the processes of collaboration and integration that Christian and Muslim…
Mags Gargan