The Vatican Press Office has announced the dates for the upcoming canonisations by Pope Leo XIV. The ceremony will take place on October 19 in St Peter’s Square. A total of seven people will be added to the list of Catholic saints. The new saints include the Armenian-Catholic Archbishop of Mardin, Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan, who…
“Everyone here is pleading for mercy: to take pity, for mercy, for compassion, for them to stop this war, for them to stop shooting… for them to stop killing people, for them to stop bombing,” the only parish priest in Gaza, Fr Gabriel Romanelli, said in a video he posted on September 23. “There are…
Dear Editor, For the life of me, I cannot understand the stance of Independent members of the Oireachtas and local county councils. As Shane Ross remarked in last week’s Sunday Independent, the three-horse line-up to date for the presidential race lacks lustre and is second rate. Maybe Sinn Féin will pull a rabbit…
The preparatory document for the Pre-Synodal Assembly, Baptised and Sent, was published on Thursday, September 18, a month before the October Assembly in Kilkenny. I will offer a brief summary of the document, some reflections that arise, and two suggestions concerning the next steps. The document is authored by the National Synodal Team as part…
St Paul reminds us: “We are sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet enriching many; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.” (2 Corinthians 6:10). The Christian life is paradoxical. We can name sorrow honestly, yet still hold fast to hope. We rejoice not because all is well, for it is not, but because Christ is present,…
True faith grows not through wonders but through steadfast trust that God acts, even when He seems silent, writes Fr Dominik Domagala It is easy to say: “I promise you love.” Yet we know that daily life demands that such a promise be lived out in many different ways and circumstances. The same is true…
Walking with St John Henry Newman on the path of the ‘kindly light’ One Friday evening, running out of Mullingar along the Greenway towards Athlone, I turned at the 18km mark and began my journey back. The sun was just setting in a glorious blaze, leaving a red glow on the horizon before dusk fell…
Growing up in a Roman Catholic home, devotions were always a vital part of our religious diet. While our family saw the Eucharist as more important than devotions, we nourished our spiritual lives a lot on devotions, as did many Roman Catholics back then. Among other things, we prayed the Rosary every day, prayed the…
Q: I’m one of the parents on a new ‘safety committee’ for our local parish school. One of the parents’ main suggestions is that, for our school Masses, we lock the church doors and keep the Mass private. To us, this seems like basic common sense. However, our pastor says we can’t do that. Is…
Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4; Psalm 94 (95); 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14; Luke 17:5-10 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” Luke 17:1 Jesus said to his disciples, “Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to anyone by whom they come! Luke 17:2 It would be better for you if a millstone…
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