The Mercy Global Action (MGA), the justice arm of Mercy International Association (MIA) celebrated this month the graduation of the Cohort Four and the start of the Cohort Five’s journey of the Mercy Emerging Leaders Fellowship (MELF) Programme. The graduation ceremony took place in the in Mercy International Centre, Baggot Street on September 3, while…
To celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is to remember and renew an epochal event that profoundly shaped the history of Christianity. The anticipated announcement of Pope Leo XIV’s visit, soon to be made official by the Holy See, strengthens our faith and invites us to rediscover the treasure handed down to…
In towns, villages, and parishes all across Ireland, the beating pulse of the community is the local GAA club. Whether in the barren rural landscapes of northwest Donegal or the bustling, multicultural centres of Dublin, Cork, and Belfast, the GAA sits at the heart of it all. But in a time of great change across…
Sunday, September 14 marked the release of the initial set of excerpts from Pope Leo XIV’s first sit-down interview with a journalist, which comes in the form of the landmark new book León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the 21st Century”. The book…
The call for reform in the Catholic Church is as old as the Church itself. Across the centuries, theologians and popes have emphasised that while the deposit of faith remains unchanged, the way it is lived and expressed must be renewed in every age. The French Dominican theologian Yves Congar, writing in 1950 in his…
Just a few months before he was assassinated on September 10, Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk — a conservative campus activist and an outspoken evangelical Christian — said that upon his death, he would want to be remembered for his Christian faith. “If everything completely goes away, how do you want to be remembered?”…
A group of Peruvian expats in Italy celebrated Pope Leo XIV’s 70th birthday on September 14 in true local fashion, bringing a beloved popular devotion in Chiclayo to the Pope’s front door. Every year during his time as Bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023, Pope Leo would visit the shrine of Jesús Nazareno Cautivo,…
When Matthew Sanders launched Longbeard, the name was a nod to two images. One was slightly more reverent though, tongue and cheek: an homage to the “big man with the white beard” – God. The other was considerably less reverent, more rebellious, a tip of the hat to pirates. That desire to go out on…
In response to the September 9 airstrike by the Israeli air force against the Hamas leadership in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchal Diocese of Jerusalem of the Latins for Jordan, Bishop Iyad Twal, advocated for a two-state solution to achieve peace in the Middle East. Bishop Twal’s proposal aligns…
As September 5-7 pilgrimage of roughly 2,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics to Rome as part of the ongoing Jubilee Year, which is not formally part of the calendar of official celebrations but which nevertheless has been welcomed by some church officials, culminated with a procession of participants into St Peter’s Square for the Pope’s traditional noontime Angelus…
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