About 70,000 pilgrims from around the world swarmed down Via della Conciliazione towards Vatican city, filling St Peter’s Square in a flurry of colour, waving caps and flags associated mainly with one of the seven people about to be recognised as saints. Safe to say, with a huge turn-out from El Salvador, St Oscar Romero…
To see somebody give their life out of love for their people is inspiring not just for Christians, but for people of all Faiths, one Dubliner who attended the canonisations on Sunday said of St Oscar Romero. An eclectic mix of energised people streamed out of St Peter’s Square after the canonisations of seven new…
If present trends continue, the name “Mary” could soon become almost extinct. We’re told that Ethel, Sheila, Garrett and Herbert are already “extinct” Christian names because they are no longer recorded in the top 100 names given to babies. Just over 100 ago, according to Ancestry.ie, more than 11,000 girls in Ireland were baptised or…
Most Irish people believe Pope Francis did not do enough to address clerical abuse during his recent papal visit to Ireland, according to new research. Only 30% of people believe the Pope did enough on the issue during the visit, according to a survey of 840 people by Queen’s University in Belfast, which also found…
A congregation of over 2,000 people attended the 33rd Irish Kidney Association’s Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving at Corpus Christi Church, Homefarm Road, Dublin 9 on Saturday, October 6 to honour organ donors and their families. Present at the ecumenical service were families of deceased organ donors and living donors as well as transplant recipients…
100 Years On… The First World War induced a kind of intellectual schizophrenia in Irish Catholic thinking, writes Gabriel Doherty The pages of The Irish Catholic for the week ended Saturday, October 19 1918, continued to make reference to, indeed were dominated by, the sinking nine days earlier of the MV Leinster by a German…
Bishop Noel Treanor told nine new deacons “we rejoice and give thanks to you” at their ordination over the weekend. The ordinations, the first for the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Down and Connor, took place on Sunday, October 14. Each deacon will be attached to a parish and will assist with Mass, occasionally…
Francesco Spinelli St Francesco Spinelli was born in Milan on April 14, 1853. After completing his priestly formation, he was ordained a priest in 1875. He started a community of young women in Rome who consecrated their lives to Eucharistic adoration. After meeting St Catherine Comensoli, he founded the Institute of the Adorers of the…
An Irish chaplain to the British army during World War I has been described as “imitating Christ” when he was bravely killed while administering Last Rites to a soldier. Speaking ahead of the screening of a film last week in the Vatican detailing Fr Willie Doyle SJ’s life, directed by Campbell Miller from Newcastle in…
Fr Patrick Flynn may not have known what a Capuchin even was when, aged 12, he and his classmates were asked in 1955 if they’d like to sing in the choir at St Mary of the Angels Church on Dublin’s Church Street, but nowadays his knowledge of the order and of the Irish province’s missionary…
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