On June 9 of 1974, Fr Martin Casey was ordained in St Peter’s Seminary in Co. Wexford. “I thought maybe it might be a way of being helpful to people in some way or another and bringing people closer to God,” Fr Casey told The Irish Catholic about his journey to priesthood. “That thought has…
Faith, spirituality and climate leadership at a critical moment When Laudato Si’ Movement participated in the recent Austrian World Summit in Vienna, it was more than another stop on the global climate calendar. It was a powerful sign of something deeper taking place: faith, spirituality and moral values are moving closer to the centre of…
An Apostolic worker in Elphin Diocese has been awarded a ‘Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award’ at the Apostolic Workers Display Day on June 7 after more than 50 years of dedicated work. This award is one of the highest honours bestowed by the papacy and is given to Catholics who have shown a long and…
Just like that, another inter-county season is over. Could anyone have predicted a more memorable ending? Where were you when it happened? The day Mayo finally returned to the promised land. A dream generations had lived and died without seeing finally unfolded on Jones’ Road, producing one of the greatest eruptions of emotion Croke Park…
In 1626, around four centuries ago, an otherwise unknown young man quietly left Ireland for the Continent, bound for an Augustinian friary to continue his formal education. Like many Irish religious during the Penal era, William Tirry departed because Ireland was not permitted to educate or sustain Catholic clergy openly. Despite the landscape of shattered…
Challenging secular anthropology on human dignity Dear Editor, The Irish Catholic (July 9) presents statements, possibly coincidental, by Bishop Doran and Archbishop Farrell, to wit “Human dignity is not given to us by the State, or by our parents. Neither the State, nor our parents, nor anybody else can take it away.” These statements challenge…
Everywhere you go in the Philippines, especially in schools and town halls, there is likely to be a statue of Dr José Rizal, the country’s national hero. He strongly opposed Spain’s oppressive colonial rule in his time. He believed that the true nature of a good government is a moral, transparent and merit-based one that…
Weeks after the release of a synod study group report on controversial pastoral issues, experts have continued to express mixed opinions about the document’s treatment of same-sex attraction. “I think my overall summary of the synodal report, particularly in relation to persons with same-sex attraction, is that it’s not very synodal,” said Fr James McTavish,…
A burial controversy involving a Dalit man in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state has brought the plight of the country’s Dalit population into sharp focus, with the local Catholic bishop involving civil authorities to resolve the dispute. Fr Devasagayaraj Zackarias, national secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India’s Office for Scheduled Castes and Backward…
A sedevacantist group of monks in Scotland hosted an illicit consecration of a “bishop” on July 25 in spite of repeated warnings that doing so would constitute a schismatic act and a break from the Catholic Church. The Transalpine Redemptorists, or the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, livestreamed the counterfeit ceremony from their monastery…