A Dublin priest has said the decision to stop bus services to large areas of West Tallaght after 6pm is causing a “big problem” for parishioners. Diversions are permanently in place, until further notice, on Dublin Bus routes south of the Square shopping centre due to numerous incidents of antisocial behaviour. Fr William O’Shaughnessy, moderator…
The Church in Ireland can learn from the painful experiences of other Christian traditions when it comes to synodality, the Irish monk heading up Vatican relations with Protestant denominations has told The Irish Catholic. Fr Martin Browne OSB was recently appointed to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity with responsibility for the Church’s relationship with…
After two years of Covid-19 restrictions the Divine Mercy Conference will return in person again from February 17-19. It will take place in the Main Hall of the RDS as it did in previous years, with this year’s theme being ‘Act justly, Love tenderly, Walk humbly with your God’ – Micah 6:8. Explaining the theme,…
An Taoiseach has warned that an attack on a church is an attack on all Ireland and those who carry them out must be held to account. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s comments come after the altar of a church in Kerry was burned and a Mass in Cork City was violently disrupted last week. In a…
Discernment, listening attentively for the voice of God, is not a new concept in our tradition. But it has come in to sharp focus given the synodal journey that Pope Francis has called Catholics to embark upon. It’s no easy task, and part of the challenge is discerning spirits. That is to say, whether what…
Parishioners in Newry have received a “blow” following the destruction of six stained-glass windows at the Church of the Sacred Heart just outside Newry in Co. Armagh. The Church of the Sacred Heart on Dublin Road in Cloughoge was vandalised overnight between Thursday and Friday, with six windows on the church building smashed and a…
America celebrated Martin Luther King Day this past week – and unveiled a new sculptural tribute to the African-American civil rights leader and his wife Coretta, named Embrace. Reactions were mixed to the bronze itself, created by Hank Willis Thomas, which depicted hugs without depicting human faces. But sometimes art has to be controversial or…
On the five-year anniversary of the late Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan, her family said that she was really excited to return to her native Co. Limerick and be close to the Benedictine monastery Glenstal Abbey. In a statement on January 14, the family said: “She loved to take long walks in the abbey’s surrounding parklands…
If people of faith are going to sustain Christian commitment in a world swirling with endless possibilities for re-invention they need to have had an authentic experience of God, writes Fr Michael Kirwan SJ The prominent Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner made an astonishing claim about how he saw the future of the Church and of…
We’re no better than the Irish of the past who also preferred to turn away from inconvenient and uncomfortable facts, writes David Quinn Over the Christmas period, the master of the Rotunda Hospital revealed that 95% of parents in Down Syndrome cases choose abortion. The figure is horrific, the revelation stunning, but it caused almost…
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