Fermanagh parish opens post box to Heaven The team at Aghalurcher Parish in Co. Fermanagh have erected white post boxes at their graveyards at both St Mary’s Maguiresbridge and Holy Cross Lisnaskea to enable parishioners to write letters to deceased friends and family. The white ‘Letters to Heaven’ post box enables parishioners to write letters,…
If Russian President Vladimir Putin prevails in his invasion of Ukraine, religious freedom in the country would be curtailed, Ukrainian faith leaders said at a recent event at the United States Institute of Peace. Ivan Rusyn, deputy senior bishop of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church, said that “this war is not about our land, this war…
Peace is possible but it requires dialogue, forgiveness and prayer, writes Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan On October 23, an Israeli woman Yocheved Lifshitz, who was being freed by Hamas militants turned and shaking his hand said twice to one of her captors, Shalom (peace). A search on YouTube will show footage of the hurried but profound…
I must admit, I was a very infrequent Mass-goer (if that is the word) for a couple of years. When the Covid-19 pandemic started and Mass ‘went online’, I tried for a week or two, but I soon discovered that sitting at my kitchen table in front of a laptop ‘virtually’ attending Mass and ‘virtually’…
Newer Catholic communities who have made their homes in Ireland in recent years can help Irish Catholics rediscover their own faith, chaplains to these communities have said.
The reinstatement of a priest found to be credibly accused of abuse undermines the work of thousands of volunteers dedicated to stringent safeguarding in Ireland, according to an Irish abuse survivor and expert.
A Carmelite convent in Dublin has become the second enclosed order to be targeted by a new Government tax, after their appeal to An Bord Pleanala (ABP) was slapped down.
A key adviser to the worldwide synod has said that the Church in Ireland must seize the energy of the event to put parishes on a “genuinely missionary footing”.
Lay-led liturgies, including “Eucharistic para-liturgies”, church closures and centralised administration for parish clusters are on the cards as dioceses face “significant change” if they are to thrive.
Health minister Stephen Donnelly has been accused of “breaking a promise” made by the Government that abortion would never be conducted by telemedicine.
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