Heartbroken Ukrainians living in Ireland have said they are overwhelmed by the support they are receiving from parishes all across Ireland as the brutal Russian invasion of their homeland intensifies. It comes as desperate efforts are being made to accommodate up to 100,000 mostly women and children who are fleeing the onslaught in what is…
Trócaire has seen “the compassion of the Irish people coming to the fore” which has allowed them to offer aid on the ground in Poland and Ukraine amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Trócaire is working with Caritas…
Staff reporter The Aontú representative for East Derry has criticised exclusion zone legislation which aims to ban protests or vigils outside abortion facilities as an “attack on free speech”. Aontú’s Gemma Brolly said that the legislation, introduced by Clare Bailey of the Green Party and supported by the UUP, Sinn Féin and the SDLP, also…
A Government report which made inaccurate recommendations regarding the chaplaincy and its work in the Defence Forces has been described as “bizarre”. The ‘Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces’ stated that a number of “outdated practices” should be discontinued such as “the convening of a Roman Catholic Mass associated with an induction ceremony”.…
The View At Mass on Sunday, the priest mentioned that we should be praying for Ukrainians but also for the Russian people. A young boy reacted immediately, asking his mother and grandmother in a loud whisper, “why should we pray for the Russians?” What a great question. Given the ongoing murderous assault on Ukraine, which…
A parent-baby prayer group centred around adoration, Scripture and prayer has begun in Portlaoise parish, Co. Laois, which seeks to allow couples and their children to pray in a safe, relaxed environment. Michelle Ward, one of the event’s organisers, told this paper it’s a “parent”-baby group, as it’s “very important” that the husbands are “very,…
The terrible events in Ukraine are evoking memories of the great famine of 1932-33, when up to three million Ukrainians were starved to death by Joseph Stalin’s deliberate policies. Ukrainians have a special word for that genocidal event – the Holdomor, or ‘terror famine’ – which bears some comparison to the Nazis’ Holocaust. I had…
Cardinal Bo fears ‘nightmare scenario’ of nuclear holocaust Cardinal Charles Maung Bo said on Friday that the “nightmare scenario” of a global nuclear holocaust was “becoming a possibility” following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The leader of the Catholic Church in strife-torn Burma said in a March 4 message that the world was on the brink of “self-annihilation”.…
Pope Francis said the Vatican “is ready to do everything to put itself at the service of peace” in Ukraine. “Rivers of blood and tears are flowing in Ukraine,” the Pope said March 6 as he led thousands of people in St Peter’s Square in praying for peace after reciting the Angelus. Pope Francis said…
In our current age of increasing political polarisation it is increasingly difficult to argue fruitfully, writes Dr Philip Gonzales If it is our conviction that Christianity — rooted in Christ the enfleshed Word of the Father — is true, and that this truth of love must be carried forward in service to our hazy, nebulous,…
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