A conference later this month addressed by a former Vatican ambassador and an acclaimed biographer of Pope Francis will hear calls for Irish Catholics to stand up for their Faith. Entitled ‘How to Defend the Faith Without Raising Your Voice’, the conference which will be held in the Red Cow Hotel on Saturday, April 28,…
It is vital to support the farming community if Ireland wants to keep people on the land, Bishop John Buckley of Cork and Ross has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic after an appeal for all Masses in the diocese to include prayers for the farming community, Bishop Buckley said parishes had responded well to…
Religious representatives of the Irish Catholic and Anglican communities have thanked God for the political peace that has been achieved in Ireland in the last 20 years and have urged people to continue to be “ambassadors of reconciliation”. Archbishop Eamon Martin and the Church of Ireland’s Archbishop Richard Clarke released the joint statement on April…
It’s six months now since I was obliged to leave the lovely old flat in central Dublin which I had rented for 21 years. It was on the second floor of an old Georgian building and I loved it. It was full of books and old things, nooks and crannies, memorabilia and memories and I…
Concerns have been raised after a social media post critical of a pro-life statement from a bishop emerged apparently from a senior executive at the ad agency running the information campaign on behalf of the Referendum Commission. The Referendum Commission has charged BBDO Dublin with promoting voter turnout and to explain the referendum proposal in…
Martin Mansergh The View The political history of 20th-Century Ireland is book-ended between the 1916 Easter Rising and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. These descriptions are very evidently linked symbolically to key events in the Christian calendar. Pearse’s writings leading up to the Rising are suffused with religious metaphor, for which he was notably…
The Redmonds and Waterford: A Political Dynasty, 1891 – 1952 by Pat McCarthy (Four Courts Press 2018, €29.95 pb) John Redmond inaugurated the Redmond political dynasty when he was returned to the House of Commons for New Ross in December 1881. It would remain in place until 1952. A native of Wexford, he was…
Lots of small, kind gestures make saints, writes David Quinn A few weeks ago during a chat with a renowned Italian journalist, the Pope seemed to call the existence of Hell into doubt, or so it was reported. The journalist, Eugenio Scalfari (94), is founder of the traditionally anti-clerical newspaper, La Repubblica. Pope Francis…
The contribution of Fr Alec Reid and others to the Peace Process needs to be recognised, Mattie McGrath TD has said. Speaking at the General Liam Lynch Memorial in Newcastle, Co. Tipperary, the independent TD urged the Government and Fianna Fáil to highlight those who seem excluded from current political debates around the Good Friday…
The Mexican bishops’ conference criticised US President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border and issued a strong defence of migrants, saying the Catholic Church could not stand by “in the face of suffering by our brother migrants as they seek better conditions”. The letter, addressed to people in Mexico,…
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