BRITAIN: A man unveils Mother Joanna Jamieson’s mural of Venerable Magdalen Taylor at the Kairos Centre in London.
Month: October 2017
Archbishop Paul Gallagher speaks at the Cardinal Cahal Daly Memorial Lecture in Belfast
Archbishop Paul Gallagher – Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See (Vatican foreign minister) – speaks at the Cardinal Cahal Daly Memorial Lecture in Belfast on the practice of dialogue.
Pope chose Ireland to kick-start his pro-marriage ‘revolution’
Greg Daly
Missionary legacy inspired WMOF Pope Francis chose Ireland to host next year’s World Meeting of Families to make sure Irish Catholics would take part in a ‘revolution’ promoting marriage and family life, one of the Pope’s key advisors has said. Dublin-born Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, said…
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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis poses with a group of dancers from Mexico during his general audience in St Peter’s Square.
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BANGLADESH: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar wait to receive aid at a camp in Cox’s Bazar. Immigrants and refugees need to be respected and assisted, not treated like an enemy, a panel said during a news conference at the Vatican launching the Caritas ‘Share the Journey’ campaign.
Arts and leisure thrive without alcohol industry says bishop
Chai Brady
A Catholic Bishop has railed against alcohol lobbyist tactics which threaten the arts and leisure industry in reaction to a new alcohol bill that is now priority legislation in the Dáil, saying sports thrive regardless of their sponsorship. Bishop Eamonn Walsh, vice chair of the Irish Bishops’ Drugs Initiative, said he had to admire the…
The vocations crisis is rooted in a crisis of faith
Michael Kelly
Editor’s Comment The number of people coming forward to discern a vocation to the priesthood and religious life in Ireland is stubbornly low. There is some evidence that when vocation-promotion is prioritised, interest increases. A few years ago, after the Church hosted a ‘Year of Vocations’, Irish dioceses saw the largest number of ordinations in…
‘Chilling effect’ is the aim of pro-choice bullies, TD warns
Efforts to deny rape survivors who had refused abortions speaking venues in Dublin are part of a concerted effort to shut down pro-life voices, Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín has said. Mr Tóibín was one of 11 members of the Oireachtas who last week signed a statement expressing concern about the increasing inability of businesses…
New show shines light on vital role of chaplains
The work of hospital, prison, and university chaplains are the focus of ‘Ministry of Hope’, the second episode of which is screened on RTÉ One this Thursday. The series concentrates on Margaret Sleator, one of the first ever lay chaplain in Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Catherine Black chaplain to Arklow, Co Wicklow’s Shelton Abbey…
Government proposed tax cuts favour higher earners
A social justice think tank has urged tax proposals being considered by Government to be rejected as they would favour “only those with higher incomes”. Social Justice Ireland (SJI) makes the warning ahead of Budget 2018. A study conducted by the think tank focused on three proposals, which they say will cost the State roughly…