The Catholic Schools Partnership (CSP), the body representing all stakeholders in Catholic education in Ireland has announced two major new appointments. Fr Richard Byrne OCarm will become the body’s chairperson, while Mr Ferdia Kelly assumes to the role of chief executive. Fr Byrne is currently Provincial of the Irish Province of Carmelites. He has a…

Police continue inquiries into Notre Dame car incident Police in France are continuing to investigate the circumstances behind the placing of a car filled with gas canisters and diesel cans near to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.  Though the car was not rigged for an explosion, the suspicious placement of the vehicle led investigators to a female figure named on a terror…

The leading Catholic prelate in the West African nation of Gabon has issued a call for an international mediator to solve the political crisis that has arisen since recent presidential elections.  After the incumbent Ali Bongo claimed victory by a narrow margin of just 6,000 votes in the August 27 poll, violence erupted amid claims…

The Catholic Bishops of the US have voiced objections to proposals to allow scientists to commence research involving human-animal hybrids. In a message submitted to the National Institutes of Health, a division of the Department of Health, the prelates sounded a warning over the ethical arguments surrounding “beings who do not fully belong to either…