The Cistercian monks of Mount Melleray have confirmed that discussions are underway with a “like-minded community” regarding the future use of the historic abbey. In a statement, Dom Rufus Pound OCSO, Superior of the Abbey of Our Lady of Silence, said that while many groups had expressed interest since the monks’ departure was announced in…
We live in restless times filled with tensions between persons, between nations. We can hardly keep up with developments in technology, politics, society — it feels like everything is in motion. And the Church, too, is on a journey of change and renewal. For some, that change feels unsettling. For others, it is exciting. But…
At Dublin Zoo, a passenger plane soared harmlessly overhead. For most visitors, it was a passing curiosity. But for a group of Ukrainian children, the sound was unbearable. They screamed, dropped to the ground, and hid in terror. “They were seized by unspeakable fear,” recalled Fr Vasyl Kornitsky, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest now serving…
Lough Derg has closed its traditional three-day pilgrimage season with a total of 4,040 pilgrims, up 11% from last year. Fr La Flynn, Prior of the pilgrimage island, attributed the increase in part to the Jubilee Year and the Pilgrim Passport initiative linking Lough Derg with Croagh Patrick and Knock. “One in five pilgrims this…
The Vatican issued an update to its public procurement regulations to streamline steps in the Holy See’s contracting processes while maintaining integrity and transparency. The new general executive decree was signed on August 5 by the prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Maximino Caballero Ledo, and took effect on August 10. The decree contains…
In a message issued for the Festivity of St Cajetan the Bishops’ Conference affirmed on August 5 that no economic policy can be considered successful if it implies unemployment, in a direct reference to President Javier Milei’s continuous measures of austerity. Since Milei took office in December of 2023, he approved numerous policies in order…
A quick look at the Great Schism and why reunion might not be far off My student days are well over. Yet I still remember having ample opportunity to study the Reformation which, as every schoolboy knows, is short for the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. And why wouldn’t I remember? It is…
Over this whole period of concern about the war in – and occupation of – Ukraine, I have frequently thought about the Anglo-Irish situation in 1921. Vladimir Putin regards Ukraine as part of Russian culture and history – the Russian Orthodox Church’s very roots are in Kyiv. And Winston Churchill, who held the British government’s…
Maksym Ryabukha, the Greek Catholic bishop of the Exarchate of Donetsk in Ukraine, describes himself as a “bishop on wheels” because he frequently travels to visit parishes and accompany his faithful in the midst of war. “This allows me to see the depths of human life,” he said. One of the youngest bishops in the…
Longtime anti-euthanasia activists Rita and Mike Marker were honoured August 11 at the 2025 “People of Life” awards by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities during the Diocesan Pro-Life Leadership Conference in Arlington, Virginia. The awards recognise Catholics who have answered St John Paul II’s call in Evangelium Vitae…
Mary Kenny