Courtney McGrailThree-week-old Freddie McMullan pictured on the first day of the annual Redemptorist novena in Clonard Monastery, Belfast last week. See Page 6. Photo: Hugh Russell/The Irish News
Month: June 2016
Meath welcomes newly ordained priest
Bishop Michael Smith welcomed the newest priest to the Diocese of Meath on Sunday when Fr Conor McGee, pictured with Fr Ronan Drury (right), was ordained in Tullamore parish. Another new priest for Meath, Rev. Warren Collier, will be ordained next month.
Clonard novena issues invitation to Pope Francis
Staff Reporter Through a warm burst of applause the congregation at the annual Clonard novena have tasked the papal nuncio with passing on an invitation for Pope Francis to visit the Belfast monastery during his expected trip to Ireland in 2018. The Pope’s representative to Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown, celebrated the youth session at Clonard novena…
Leaving Amnesty more in sorrow than in anger
Mary Kenny
It is such a tragedy that Amnesty has taken away the focus from their great work by introducing abortion as a campaigning issue
Philip Cairns’ mother ‘forgives’ man linked to son’s abduction
Cathal Barry
The mother of missing Dublin schoolboy Philip Cairns has said she forgives the man linked to her son’s disappearance. Philip went missing 30 years ago, aged 13, and Gardaí believe he may have been abducted by late convicted paedophile Eamonn Cooke. Speaking on RTÉ Radio 1, Philip’s mother Alice said that to make peace with…
Capuchin ordaination
Fr Bryan Shortall OFM Cap. pictured at the laying on of hands during the ordination of Fr Martin Bennet OFM Cap., at the Church Of Saint Mary Of The Angels, Church Street in Dublin at the weekend.
St Fachtna’s De La Salle school closes in Cork
St Fachtna’s De La Salle secondary school in Skibbereen, west Cork recently closed its doors for the last time. De La Salle Brothers lived and taught in Skibbereen from 1937 until they left in 2001. A plaque was unveiled on its main street by the president of its past pupils union and a special Mass…
Youth outreach a focus for new dialogue centre
The Dublin diocese has teamed up with a top US Catholic university to establish a new centre for dialogue between the Church and society. Operations at the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason will begin later this year and will have a special focus on outreach to young people. The University of Notre Dame…
Keith Duffy’s on his bike to Lourdes with mother’s petitions
Staff reporter Keith Duffy assured his mother that he would hand deliver her petitions to the grotto at Lourdes before embarking on a mammoth 550km cycle to the Marian shrine in the south of France. The former Boyzone singer joined a group cycling from Limerick to Lourdes in Nantes to raise money for Cliona’s Foundation, a…
‘Not in our name’ – Amnesty members quit over abortion campaign
Greg Daly
Amnesty Ireland’s push for abortion in Ireland does not reflect the organisation’s historic values and is hurting its traditional role, according to members of the Kells Amnesty International Group. The group, which was founded in 1986, is to disband today (Thursday) in protest against Amnesty Ireland’s continued campaigning on the abortion issue. “It seems that…