The planned Citizens’ Assembly is intended to enable the Government to claim a spurious distance from the consequences of a referendum on repealing Ireland’s constitutional pro-life protections, Elphin’s Bishop Kevin Doran has said. Speaking at an event organised by Family & Life, Dr Doran, said that in his personal view, the assembly would be “nothing…
Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre launches new website The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre has unveiled a new website towards communicating the full range of projects it undertakes in the Holy Land. Designed primarily as a means of keeping the 30,000 knights and ladies of the order worldwide informed, www.oessh.va is also aimed at anyone interested in events in the Holy…
He may be a lion in winter today, but under St Pope John Paul II no one had a more vital role than Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who next week will be hosting an estimated 1.5 to 1.8 million young people in the city of Krakow for World Youth Day. If you want a window into…
Stephen Duffy and Kevin Malcolmson awaiting ordination by Clogher’s Bishop Liam MacDaid in Monaghan’s St McCartan’s Cathedral on Sunday, July 24. Fr Duff y and Fr Malcolmson celebrated their first Masses the following evening in their home parish churches, St Patrick’s in Tullycorbet parish and St Mary’s in Aghabog.
Kerry County Council lacked necessary state approval to carry out the partial demolition of an ancient holy well in Tralee, the council has admitted. Sundays Well at Lisloose, Tralee, which dates back to pre-Christian times, is believed by some to be the original “pure crystal fountain” famously mentioned in the song The Rose of Tralee.…
Fr Hamel, 84, hailed as martyr for the Faith
Rachel Beard A Co. Laois-based parish priest has hit out against an attitude towards refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland which he has branded as “racist”. Fr Paddy Byrne of Portlaoise told The Irish Catholic he believes “that there’s an underbelly in Irish society that’s quite cynical to refugees and a great sense of xenophobia where…
A religious order of nuns in Buenos Aires is to face a Church investigation over allegations that members worked with a corrupt government official in hiding $9 million in cash and jewels at their convent. The investigation comes after the arrest of government minister Jose Lopez in June at the convent on the outskirts of…
Rachel Beard looks at Burriscarra-Bullintubber Parish as they celebrate Ballintubber Abbey’s 800th anniversary
Maynooth’s neo-gothic college chapel was the fitting setting for the investiture of five new knights of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem at the weekend. The solemn ceremony was presided over by Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien, Grand Master of the order who had travelled from Rome for the occasion. The order, founded…
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