The Knights of St Columbanus have received a first-class relic of St Teresa of Calcutta from the Postulation Office (c/o The Mother Teresa Centre of the Missionaries of Charity) and arranged a national itinerary across the island of Ireland to facilitate its veneration by the public. The relic began its journey this week in Belfast,…
On July 1, you, and as many other people as you can muster, are urgently required at the most important Rally for Life ever organised in Dublin. This is the rally to Save the Eighth, and there has never been a more critical, more crucial, time for the pro-life majority to stand up and be…
The report into the country’s mother and baby homes is due out next February. I think that points very strongly to an abortion referendumwithin weeks of that, in other words in March or April of next year. The Government won’t want public anger at the mother and baby homes to go to waste. Those who…
The Pope has ordered priests in Nigeria to accept the appointment of a new bishop or they will be suspended. Pope Francis has given priests 30 days to send letters promising obedience to him. Anyone who doesn’t will lose their current office. Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke was appointed Bishop of Ahiara by then-Pope Benedict XVI…
There is still work to be done to help the victims of clerical abuse find healing a US report has found. The 14th annual report on diocesan compliance with the US Catholic Church’s “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” shows that Church leaders have taken steps to help many find solace and…
National and international policies leave migrant children at the mercy of traffickers and sexual predators a Vatican official told the UN. Policies that involve criminalising and detaining child migrants “are an insult to human dignity” and are “the dramatic evidence of existing inequalities and failing systems,” said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to UN agencies…
Calls for a peace treaty between North and South Korea were made last week as the countries are still technically at war. A symposium organised by South Korean bishops saw several speakers calling for a new peace agreement to replace a 64-year-old truce. Hak-jae Kim, a researcher at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies…
A large majority of bishops in the Scottish Episcopal Church have voted to allow same-sex marriage. The vote removed the condition that marriage is between a man and a women, amending canon law last week. Clergy are allowed to choose to officiate at gay marriages, meaning that they would not have to act against their…
Following its own findings of severe corruption in government, the South African Council of Churches called for the dissolving of parliament and new general elections. The government “has lost its moral legitimacy” and new polls are needed, the South African Council of Churches said in a statement. The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference is a…
Civilians in Myanmar (Burma) are seeking shelter in churches following an ultimatum made by the country’s army. The military dropped letters warning residents to leave an area called Tanai, by June 15, or else they would be considered to have links with a rebel army it has been reported. Church social workers have said that…
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