I write these words in Rome on the first day of my new appointment as an official of the Dicastery for the Clergy at the Holy See. It is a privilege to be here in this city that has so much history, culture and global significance, attracting millions of pilgrims and tourists from all over…
Few families in Derry football carry a legacy as enduring as the Bradleys. Born in Glenullin and raised just eight miles away in Kilrea, brothers Paddy and Eoin grew into two of the most recognisable Gaelic footballers of their generation, their journeys shaped long before they ever pulled on a county jersey. Paddy, the elder…
Julieann Moran shares how 2026 will be a year of practical engagement and initiatives to help communities share the Good News as synodal practices are embedded across parishes and dioceses Following on from the Assembly in Kilkenny on 18th October, and listening closely to the feedback from all involved, we are now moving into the…
Community Connect, Ireland’s national Baby Bank Charity, invites everyone to embrace the true spirit of Advent this season by supporting its Christmas campaign, ‘A Bundle of Love this Christmas’. dvent is a sacred time—four weeks of hope, preparation and quiet anticipation as we await the coming of the Christ-child at Christmas. It is a season…
Danielle Magennis is a Belfast-born actress and writer, known for roles in The Secret (2016) and Say Nothing (2024), and more recently as co-host of the Reclaiming the Faith podcast with her fiancé, actor John Connors (Love/Hate, Cardboard Gangsters). The pair explore faith, identity, and healing through honest conversations with priests, theologians, and people whose…
The latest “no” from Rome on women deacons has landed with a familiar thud. For many, it is disappointing. For some, especially women who love the Church yet feel blocked by it, it is deeply painful. But if we’re honest, it is not surprising. The Vatican commission’s refusal to recommend the ordination of female deacons,…
The Vatican has received explosive mail from the Goldenstein convent: the rebellious nuns are demanding the dismissal of their superior and are making serious accusations against the provost. In the dispute over the Goldenstein monastery near Salzburg, the three nuns who live there have now turned to the Vatican. In a letter dated Tuesday, obtained…
Why do people leave religion? What happens to them afterwards? Why do people switch from one religion to another, and what happens after that? These are the main questions posed by a major new survey in Britain that polled almost 3,000 people who have either left religion or joined a new one in their lifetime.…
60 years ago, the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the Catholic Church initiated a comprehensive renewal. These are the most important contents of the 16 Council texts: Understanding of the Church: the constitution Lumen gentium (1964) sets out the new self-understanding of the Roman Catholic Church. It defines the Church as a community of believers, as…
God’s love, always moving outward toward the most vulnerable, forms the backdrop to my own experience of encountering the poor says Fr Barry White Pope Francis’s call for “a Church which is poor and for the poor,” along with St Vincent de Paul’s reminder that “the poor have much to teach you,” inspired me to…
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