Expert consultants are set to be appointed to Croagh Patrick in Co Mayo to help conserve Ireland’s Holy Mountain which has suffered substantial erosion in recent years. Martin Keating, who is Head of Environment, Climate Change and Agriculture at May County Council and Chairperson of the Croagh Patrick Stakeholders Group, confirmed to The Irish Catholic…

All Hallows College in Dublin will mark its final year with a Festival Week to which everyone with a connection to the historic college is invited. All alumni, friends, staff and pastmen are invited to join us for a calendar of events during 17-22 July. A family fun day will be held on July 17…

Motion passed to save convent before sale Dublin city councillors unanimously passed an emergency motion this week to put an immediate protection order on the Georgian-era Sisters of Charity Convent and School on Gardiner Street Upper. The 200-year-old building has an adjoining Victorian chapel as well as several other original features, but due to an oversight, the building was never listed…

Calls by the Vatican’s liturgy chief for priests to celebrate Mass facing East from the first Sunday of Advent have met with mixed reactions. Speaking in London at the annual Sacra Liturgia conference, Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments, said: “It is very important that…

James McDonough receives his First Holy Communion from his newly ordained uncle, Fr Conor McDonough OP, while James’ parents Edel and Fergal look on at Fr McDonagh’s Mass of Thanksgiving in the Church of St Mary on the Hill, The Claddagh, Galway. Photo: Caroline Smith

Faithful Catholics must accept that they are a minority in modern Ireland, but must resist any temptation to seek solace in ghettos, Waterford and Lismore’s Bishop Phonsie Cullinan has said. Dr Cullinan was speaking in Maynooth at Evangelium, a Catholic apologetics conference for young people aged between 18 and 35. The conference, now in its…

The Irish-born Bishop of Dallas, Kevin Farrell, has led calls for peace and “a moment of national reflection” on race and violence in America in the wake of the deadly July 7 shootings of five police officers in the city. Bishop Farrell, who hails from Dublin, described events in Dallas as “staggering” and urged an…

The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has dismissed as manipulative the last poll on abortion conducted for The Irish Times. The poll question asked “Are you in favour of repealing the Eighth Amendment so that terminations in, for example, the case of rape or fatal foetal abnormality might be made legal, or are you in favour…