The MyFaith programme for sacramental preparation has gone from strength to strength despite the lockdown, Dr Dermot Ryan of Ossory Diocese told The Irish Catholic. MyFaith is a programme of sacramental preparation which aims to allow children to work towards the celebration of the sacraments alongside their parents, with the support of their parishes. It’s…
The temptation to put respectability ahead of faith is the death knell for any authentic religion, writes Ruadhán Jones As a young Irish Catholic, it’s impossible not to know of the mother and baby homes, but reading the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was still difficult. Ireland, during…
Governments in Asia and Africa have used an “epidemiological cover” to conceal “a quiet humanitarian catastrophe”, Aid to a Church in Need has said. “Regimes which are hostile to the presence of Christians within their lands have used Covid-19 as cover for attacks and for using their proxies to either eliminate or exploit Christian communities,”…
The story is complex, yet the trope of the Catholic bogeyman remains even after the report makes clear that a simple denigrating of the religious is not only misguided but false, writes Dualta Roughneen Much of the commentary around the mother and baby homes prior to the publication of the final report last week has been…
107-year-old Meath woman Nancy Stewart has made it her mission to attend online Masses in each of Ireland’s 32 counties. Attending two or three Masses a day, she’s well underway to accomplishing her goal. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, her granddaughter Louise Coghlan had only praise for the service that most churches are providing, describing…
The silence had long needed to be shattered – Archbishop-elect Farrell Archbishop-elect of Dublin, Dermot Farrell echoed the other bishops of Ireland by welcoming the report, describing it as making for “extremely disturbing reading”. “They reveal deep wounds, and bring to light the profound injustices perpetrated against the vulnerable in our society over a long…
Future historians will find a more nuanced and balanced account of the past than most members of the public have been led to believe, writes David Quinn There have now been three official reports in a row that upset the accepted media narrative about the culpability of the Church concerning their subject matters. The first,…
A Donegal priest has called on people to stop attending wakes, funerals and burials as the Covid-19 guidance is “not sinking in”. Tremendous comfort Fr John Joe Duffy CC of Dunfanaghy/Creeslough parish said that although going to wakes, funeral Masses and burials is a “tremendous comfort”, it is dangerous. “Despite public health pleas, the message…
The Church must look to its own failings in the wake of the report on the investigation into the mother and baby homes, says UCC historian Dr Gabriel Doherty. Responding to the concern that Catholicism was being used as a scapegoat for what was a wider societal failing, Dr Doherty told The Irish Catholic that…
Australia’s financial crime watchdog agency said it over-estimated by the equivalent of more than €1.24 billion the amount of money transferred from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020. According to The Australian, a daily newspaper, “A computer coding error is believed to be the source of the miscalculation”, with financial transfers involving Italy…
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