Dozens of abductees are still being held in captivity following the Christmas Day attack on Angwan Aku Village in Kaduna, a state located in the north of Nigeria, a Catholic priest in the West African country has told ACI Africa in an interview. On Christmas Day 2022, militant Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists attacked Angwan Aku village,…
The “prophetic” words of the late Pope Benedict XVI and the lives of Ss Ita and Brigid 1,500 years ago are examples for the Church in Ireland, which will become smaller, according to Bishop Brendan Leahy. The bishop was speaking on the Feast Day of St Ita on January 15 at Mass in Raheenagh church,…
Charlie Chaplin is one of the few silent film stars likely to be known well even by people who have never seen a silent film. The American comic, whose character ‘The Tramp’ was iconic in the silent era, unsurprisingly makes the Vatican list of 45 significant films. The film they chose is the last film…
In 360AD Athanasius of Alexandria – one of the great Doctors of the Church – published a biography simply titled Life of Anthony. In it, he told the story of an illiterate and holy man who out of devotion to God went out into the desert to put into practice Christ’s words to the rich…
Corr Na Madadh National School in Athlone will become the first school to transfer from Catholic patronage as part of a new pilot scheme. Minister for Education Norma Foley announced January 12 that the Co. Westmeath school will transfer from Catholic patronage to the local education and training board (ETB) and become a multi-denominational community…
Cardinal Pell’s 400 days in tough prisons in solitary can be seen as the best thing that happened to him, writes Fr Brendan Purcell When I was a philosophy lecturer at University College Dublin, our staff Newman group wanted to invite some notable figure or other to give a talk in the millennium year. We…
A Catholic priest burned to death on Sunday after bandits set fire to his parish rectory in northern Nigeria. The body of Fr Isaac Achi was found among the charred parish building of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church on January 15, according to the Catholic Diocese of Minna, Nigeria. He died after armed bandits…
Hospital staff under “huge pressure” are in “crisis management”, the Director of Pastoral Care at Tallaght University Hospital Fr John Kelly has said. This comes as the HSE revealed that attendances at emergency departments across the country have been higher this year than ever before. “Staff are very much under pressure, I mean, it’s the…
Building open and welcoming faith communities is seen as key to a vibrant future, writes Michael Kelly Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown has asked people across the 51 parishes to put their shoulder to the wheel and embrace the mission of renewal of the local Church. At the weekend, Bishop McKeown published a pastoral letter…
Maria Morrow The word “fear” has such a negative connotation to us. We fear our kids getting hurt. We fear spiders. We fear failure. We fear a tragic and untimely death. In other words, we fear the things that we don’t like or want. And sometimes our fears stand in the way of our goals…
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