Almost 400 young people from Derry diocese received the Pope John Paul II Award at a ceremony in St Eugene’s Cathedral on February 7. The guest speaker, Alexander McLean alongside Bishop Donal McKeown, patron of the Award, presented the Award to 381 young people from all over the diocese of Derry and beyond. Three people…
As local and European elections loom, pro-life supporters can play a part in influencing the outcome writes Eilís Mulroy A recent Sunday Independent poll asked members of the public what were the issues of most concern to them and which will influence how they vote at election time. Issues like immigration, health and housing were top…
Carl Olson Pop quiz: How many commandments did Jesus give? It’s a tricky question, since we know Jesus made clear he came to fulfil the law and that his teaching and actions were aimed at the completion – not the abolition – of the commandments (cf. Mt 5:17-20). But what commandments did he give? What…
New data from Accord, the agency of the Irish bishops’ conference concerned with supporting the sacrament of marriage, shows that 7,262 couples were prepared for the Sacrament of marriage across the island of Ireland in 2023, and the figure for 2022 was 7,470 couples.
Recently elected Bishop of Down and Connor, Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ spoke with Sr Denise Boyle, an Irish Franciscan sister who is the Director of the Global Action Programme of Mercy International Association about the impact of synodality on the Church’s mission, the role he played at the Synod in Rome as an elected member…
Speculation has been stirred about pop-superstar Taylor Swift’s Catholic future after she was pictured celebrating at the recent Super Bowl with two celebrity Catholics.
Sr Alicia Torres Who am I? This question lurks at the core of every human heart. So often the real answer is blurred by responses we so readily grasp after, and yet time and again fail to satisfy. One response in particular, I think, gnaws at so many of us today: “I am important.” Of…
Pastoral care for Loneliness: A New Apostolate, by Matthew Fforde (Gracewing, £9.99) Sometimes a reviewer has to ask themselves, following the changing events of the days, whether some books deserve to be noticed again, to prevent them getting lost in the flood tide of new books which seem so often to carry away good books,…
The leader of the Green Party and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan, referenced the Church’s synodal process as he paid tribute to late former Taoiseach John Bruton. Speaking in the Dáil last Wednesday, the TD reminisced about Mr Bruton’s life and political legacy, describing him as “a Christian democrat”. “He was a Christian democrat. I…
Concern for a baby’s development at the heart of ‘woman in the home’ clause, writes Fr Brian Kavanagh Paragraph 1 of article 41.2.1 of Bunreacht na hÉireann states a truth that needs to be acknowledged, re-iterated and emphasised. In 1937 when the Irish Constitution was ratified, it was the woman who stayed at home to…
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