The renowned priest and academic Msgr Pádraig Ó Fiannachta has died at the age of 89. Born in 1927, the Co. Kerry priest studied in Killarney’s St Brendan’s College before studying Celtic Studies in Maynooth and doing a master’s degree in UCC on the 17th-Century priest and scholar Geoffrey Keating. Ordained in 1953, he spent…
Staff reporters Hundreds of young Irish Catholics are packing their bags to make the pilgrimage to Poland to celebrate World Youth Day with Pope Francis. Two million young Catholics are expected to throng the city of Krakow for July 26-31. Some 1,600 young pilgrims are travelling in coming days, 10 times the number who went to…
Fr Jamie Twohig SAC, at his ordination on Saturday, July 16, in St Joseph’s Church, Little Island, Cork, accompanied by the Pallottine Provincial Fr Derry Murphy SAC, his grandfather Dan Twohig, his mother Clodagh, Bishop John Buckley of Cork and Ross, and Fr Michael Irwin SAC.
Raising awareness of perinatal care The mother of a child with a life-limiting condition has appealed for more attention to be paid to perinatal care. Tracy Harking from Every Life Counts, an organisation that gives families with babies who died shortly after birth a place to share their stories, has stressed the importance of recognising “abortion alternatives”. “Because of…
A national holiday has now been “tainted with the memory of a heinous atrocity against innocent families”, writes Mary Kenny
After writing recently about the Battle of Verdun and the literature of the Great War, I decided that as the anniversary of the Somme would be well marked by State and media, no reference to it would be needed here. But my mind has been changed by the publication of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into…
Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin has called for a “re-imagining” of the Pledge to reflect the dangers posed to Irish youth from sports enhancing drugs in addition to alcohol. Addressing members of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart during their annual pilgrimage to Knock, Bishop Nulty referred to Ireland’s continuing…
Parish clergy earn less than average earnings
A leading canon lawyer has welcomed the Government’s decision to ditch a new law that would have recognised pre-nuptial agreements for marrying couples. Fr John McKeever, administrator of the Armagh Regional Marriage Tribunal, warned that the introduction of pre-nuptial agreements would disfigure marriage. “It’s important that the truth about marriage is put out there in…
Pope’s advisor insists shift in attitude is real
Greg Daly
Paul Keenan
Mary Kenny
Courtney McGrail
Cathal Barry