Knock Shrine is to be recognised as an International Marian and Eucharistic Shrine March 19, the Feast of St Joseph. The Pope is to deliver a special message via video link recognising Knock Shrine’s special status during Mass at 7:30pm on Friday, March 19. The announcement comes during the year of St Joseph, as declared…
EXCLUSIVE An Iraqi prelate who trained for the priesthood in Ireland has said that the historic visit of Pope Francis is a reminder to the world that the tiny Church there is still a beacon of hope despite the challenges. Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda told The Irish Catholic that he hopes the visit will inspire a…
TD Michael Healy-Rae has said there is “blatantly obvious” anti-Catholic bias in Government. The Kerry TD told The Irish Catholic that “governments present and past seem to be engaged in a continual downgrading of the Catholic religion”. Faithful unfairly “Of course there is anti-Catholic bias in Government – is that not blatantly obvious,” Mr Healy-Rae…
A Dublin priest was not in breach of any laws when he was distributing Communion after his online Masses, according to a law professor. Fr Binoy Matthew co-PP of Mountview and Blakestown had been allowing people to come to the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Hunstown during a two-hour window to receive…
A TD has criticised Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly for “dodging” a question about risks associated with public religious services as “very hurtful” to her constituents who have been vocal about the issue. Sinn Féin’s Sorca Clarke of Longford-Westmeath constituency submitted a question to Minister Stephen Donnelly about risk assessments related to the restrictions on…
11,000 families have been resettled and “several hundred churches reconstructed” in Iraq by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), according to ACN Ireland’s Director, Dr Michael Kinsella. He described the organisation as “emboldened” and “encouraged” by the Pope’s trip to Iraq last weekend, which saw the Pope visit many of the sites decimated by…
According to some royal sources, the root of Prince Harry’s bitter feelings towards his family lie in a very old, even biblical, scenario: that is, when brothers fall out because one feels the other is favoured over the other. That was the basis of the Hebrew Bible’s first account of homicide: when Cain slew Abel,…
The View Pope Francis is sometimes controversial but never boring. As John L. Allen of Crux Now put it, the pontiff’s current trip to Iraq is perhaps his most emblematic trip – if only because his stubborn streak ensured that it happened. He ignored worries about super spreader Covid-19 events and security issues in order…
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney did not address the issue of Christian persecution during his meeting with Iran’s president despite serious concerns about religious freedom for the minority group in the country. Minister Coveney met with President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Tehran, Iran over the weekend. The Department of Foreign Affairs…
Catholic clergy in France perpetrated more than three times as many sexual abuse offenses than previously thought, said the head of a bishops’ commission whose report is due out in September. Jean-Marc Sauvé, 71, a lay Catholic and head of the French Institute of Administrative Sciences, presented new data from the Independent Commission of Sexual…
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