When we were growing up, there were certain things that were so taken for granted we didn’t even think about it, such as that every baby would be baptised, and that later in childhood they would make their First Holy Communion followed by Confirmation. Most of us would go on to marry, and when we…
It’s time for Europe to wake up to what is coming from Trump’s America writes Dr Massimo Faggioli There is a genuine spiritual quest trying to find its way in the secularised USA of today: the disappointments of post-modernism, of the falsely promised ‘end of history’, of a technocratic culture hiding new forms of idolatry…
It’s been ninety-five years since Bill Gribbin was baptised and he is not only living out his Christian mission, as father, grandfather and great grandfather, but as sacristan of St Michael’s The Archangel parish in Belfast. Observing him prepare the altar and the incense for a requiem mass last week, it occurred to me, he…
It’s rare to meet someone like Eddie Keher. A bona fide sporting legend, he is at once a record-breaker and a gentleman of striking humility. His list of honours is staggering: six All-Ireland titles, ten Leinster championships, nine Railway Cups, and four All-Stars. He was named on both the Team of the Century and Team…
To be a good person, you don’t need to become a priest – you can do the right thing as a layperson,” Bro. Donatus Forkan OH Provincial, Hospitaller Order of St John of God, Western European Province told The Irish Catholic. Recently, the management for the Hospitaller Services Group (HSG), which was created in Ireland…
Maria Steen was blocked from the presidential election because the political establishment feared that she would win the arguments and potentially the presidential election. Maria is a bright, intelligent and articulate woman who would have made a big impact. More importantly she has a backbone and will stand up for what she believes in. That…
Many people will know us from the Word Magazine, Christmas Cards and our Lenten and November appeals at Donamon Castle and Kairos Communications and our Language School at Maynooth. Founded by St Arnold Jannsen, in Steyl, Holland, we have been sending young Irish missionaries abroad since 1938 from our Donamon House in Co. Roscommon. Initially,…
On September 23 the Triduum in honour of St Pio culminated at St Mary of the Angels Church in Dublin 7, with 400 people attending to celebrate Mass and express their devotion to the saint on his feast day. As the church is the centre for the Brazilian Catholic community, their liturgy team served the…
Facing what he called the “real crisis” of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV stressed the importance of “an authentic and deep sensitivity and compassion” for victims, voicing frustration over delays in victim’s cases, but also warned of the risk of false allegations which, he said, can destroy a priest’s life. “Victims…
Ten years after the refugee summer of 2015, Archbishop Stefan Heße of Hamburg emphasised the successes of integration policy. “Let us not forget what we have achieved in the last ten years,” said Archbishop Heße on September 24 at the autumn plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ Conference. “For many people in our country, refugees…
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