Ryan Tubridy is a polished broadcaster, and I wish him success with his new London-based job with Virgin Media, where he will present a morning radio show from 10am until lunchtime, starting in January. After leaving RTÉ, he has embraced his new role with the right attitude: pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start…
Cuts to the education budget in the North will have a “major impact” on the “Catholic family of schools”, according to submissions to a report released by the Executive. Faith based schools hit back at claims that cuts will result in “minor negative impacts” on Catholic schools, according to the Department of Education’s ‘Equality Impact…
The first report of the Synod on Synodality makes for very interesting reading. The second session of the synod will be in 2024. Of the 364 voting delegates who attended 50 were women. While one woman for every seven men was a very distinct under-representation, it was a very significant improvement on previous practice and…
A popular Catholic app has defended employing Irish actor Liam Neeson for prayer voiceovers, as it faced backlash due Mr Neeson’s pro-choice positions. In a statement, Hallow, a prayer app with millions of users, said Mr Neeson and his fellow actors have done “an incredible job” recording scripts for the Advent season. Mr Neeson joined…
Attending Mass in an Italian church shows how European Christianity has collapsed, writes Dualta Roughneen I have a travelled a lot over the last 20 years. My work has taken me to many different and varied countries, for weeks, months and years at a time. The work travel has allowed me to add holidays on…
In the battle against clutter both physical and spiritual, the path to holiness lies, writes Emily Stimpson Chapman Religious have it easy – at least in some regards. Consider, for example, their vow of poverty. Religious brothers, sisters and priests pledge a sacred oath that shields them from basements overrun by toys, cupboards overflowing…
An Irish priest based in Magdala on the shore of the Sea of Galilee has said that “providence” organised their presence there so that they could receive around 240 Israelis displaced from the north due to ongoing fighting with militant group Hezbollah. Fr Eamon Kelly LC told The Irish Catholic that after the flow of…
A Finnish case shows the dangers hate speech laws pose for Irish Christians, Ruadhán Jones hears As Ireland considers introducing controversial hate speech laws, a Finnish case against a prominent Christian politician shows the “chilling effect” these laws could have here. While former MP Päivi Räsänen was cleared on November 14 by the Helsinki Court…
Elizabeth Scalia In chapter 31 of her autobiography, the 16th Century Carmelite St Teresa of Avila – one of four female doctors of the Church, including her spiritual daughter, St Thérèse of Lisieux – urges us toward frequent use of one particular, very common and (usually) widely available sacramental. “From long experience I have…
Thirty-six men from dioceses across Ireland enrolled in this year’s weekend gathering from November 18-19, in the national seminary of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to help discern a priestly vocation. According to Fr Willie Purcell, director of the National Vocations Office of the Irish Bishops’ Conference: “The weekend offers those discerning a vocation to the…
Mary Kenny
Nuala O’Loan
Ruadhán Jones
Chai Brady