Youth Space Seeing the joy created from volunteering makes it all worth it, writes Emma Meehan On August 25, as part of a CEIST school initiative, 12 fifth year students, accompanied by their teachers, Mr Jason Cotter and Mrs Tina Johnston, had the privilege of travelling to Dublin to volunteer at the Papal Mass…
The Family is Good News: Selections from Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) by Pope Francis, prepared for the Council for Marriage and the Family of the Irish Episcopal Conference (Veritas, €9.99) The Beatitudes of Pope Francis: A Manifesto for the Modern Christian by Aidan Donaldson (Veritas, €7.99) These two books inspired by Pope Francis provide the ordinary reader with…
Collaborate with teachers, Pope tells parents Without respectfully collaborating with teachers and schools, parents will risk being on their own when it comes to educating their children and be at a greater disadvantage facing the challenges emerging from today’s culture, mass media and technology, Pope Francis has said. Speaking to hundreds of parents, the Pope told them that “teachers are…
The eye of The Irish Catholic was firmly on international affairs 100 years ago, writes Gabriel Doherty The week ending Saturday September 7, 1918, was lacking somewhat in significant domestic events for The Irish Catholic to discuss, but on the international stage truly portentous developments were occurring on a daily basis. The most important…
“Woe to chastity that is not practiced out of love, but woe to love that excludes chastity.” These are the words of Benoit Standaert, a Benedictine monk, and they can, I believe, be profitably read in our culture today where to the detriment of everyone, the sexually active and vowed celibates alike, sexuality and chastity…
In a record-breaking feat, hundreds of people named Cillian have travelled to a small town in Cavan where St Kilian is from. Mullagh was swarmed by 327 Cillians in honour of the saint, who is the patron of those suffering with rheumatism. The Cillians marched through Mullagh Fair led by the Corduff Pipe Band before…
We’re not great in the Church at telling people our good news stories. It’s a bit odd given that the Church exists for no other purpose than to proclaim the Good News of Christ. Whether it’s out of a sense of humility, or trepidation that past wrongs could come back to haunt us, Irish Catholics…
A Cork priest who died early last year left estate worth over €1m in his will. Fr John Cotter, the former parish priest of St Patrick’s Church on Cork’s Lower Glanmire Road, died on February 2, 2017, leaving a total estate of €1,160,008. One of nine children, Fr Cotter was born in Rossmore, Co. Cork,…
Due to a lack of priests the Diocese of Clogher is reducing the number of Masses by 15%. Effective from the first weekend of October, the changes come on foot of a recent pastoral letter by diocesan administrator Msgr Joseph McGuinness which highlighted the fact there are just 58 priests in active ministry in the…
Chai Brady discusses a new film about Pope John Paul II’s call for peace in Drogheda The road to reconciliation in the North of Ireland was always going to be a long one, but St John Paul II’s visit to Ireland was a catalyst for peace according to a new documentary. Admitting there was…
Peter Costello
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Chai Brady
Michael Kelly