Helen Vyotska My boyfriend has a lot of problems. I am worried about our relationship and I am not sure where it is going. We do love each other though and always make up. What should I do? The purpose of dating anyone is to find a worthy spouse, not to rehabilitate a troubled guy.…
Sometimes you hear online about what seems to be a big story, but can’t find much if any coverage in the mainstream media. Sometimes they catch up, sometimes it never surfaces. I find the story of the oppression of the Church and other opposing voices in Nicaragua to be largely under the radar. So, it…
The Sunday Gospel Luke, more than the other evangelists, portrays Jesus as being on the side of the poor. In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus referred to money as tainted with temptation. Today’s Gospel (Luke 16:19-23) is the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Although he is commonly called Dives, the rich man is not actually named in…
This now essential event is marked tomorrow with events of all kinds all over the cities, towns and counties of Ireland. For all the data about culture night, go to info@culturenight.ie. Wherever you live, whatever you care for, there will things for you in the programme. In my immediate location I am taken by the…
The country’s largest diocese is to push ahead with “crucial” plans to make First Holy Communion ceremonies simpler and more parish-based, despite fewer priests and parish pastoral workers. Dublin Diocese is reacting after many priests and parishioners reported that smaller ceremonies – necessitated by Covid-19 postponements – were better because they focused on the importance…
Refugees from the war in Ukraine have benefitted from Ireland’s “world-famous hospitality”, Ukrainian Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski has said in a message. He warned however that the struggle for freedom isn’t over yet, while the cost of rebuilding will be “unimaginable”. The message from Bishop Nowakowski, Apostolic visitor for Ukrainians Resident in Ireland and Northern Ireland,…
Training of lay people to prepare them to lead liturgies in the absence of priests will begin in autumn, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Denis Nulty has said. Bishop Nulty envisages that the “lay leader” would, as part of a local team, “stand in on the priest’s day off or during the weekdays of his…
Kimmage Manor open to all for Culture Night A public exhibition is due to take place in Kimmage Manor, home to the Irish Province of the Spiritans, as part of Culture Night 2022. The exhibition will tell the story of the Holy Ghost Fathers in countries they’ve served in, such as Angola, Ethiopia and Kenya.…
As the energy crisis deepens rural priests have hit out at Environment Minister Eamon Ryan’s proposed retail ban on turf, saying that it’d be “very hard” to ask people to switch due to the soaring cost of heating alternatives. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Limerick-based Fr Joe Tynan said that rural communities traditionally depended…
Increased Government investment in primary schools is “essential” or else schools will be forced to rely on the “bank of mum and dad”, a Catholic management body has warned. Capitation rates need an “immediate” increase of 50% to €275 per pupil and an increase of 10% across other capitation rates, the Catholic Primary Schools Management…
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