Head of Social Justice and Policy for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Ireland (SVP) said to The Irish Catholic that SVP are “very concerned” about the impact of energy costs on struggling households, after SSE Airtricity’s recent decision to increase electricity and gas prices by 9.4% and 11.6%, respectively. Ms Bayliss reported that…
In a homily delivered at a RTÉ One televised Mass on September 6, Bishop of Kilmore Martin Hayes called on his audience to “be alert to the wrong of global warming caused by human activity as being among the wrongs that are anti-life and increasingly evident in our world.” Speaking at the Cathedral of Sts…
I’ve been watching a recent drama series on BBC Four, called Kabul – about the chaotic evacuation of that city when the Taliban resumed power in Afghanistan. In the opening sequence there’s a clip of a plane crashing into the Twin Towers in New York, 2001. After 25 years it hasn’t lost its impact. I’d…
In some ways, it seems like yesterday. Exactly a quarter of a century ago, I was rehearsing, organising costumes, making travel arrangements for actors and crew from three States and a ‘thousand’ boroughs!!! My Famine Trilogy, Irish Ghost Stories, did not receive any of the funds officially allocated to the commemoration of the Irish Famine,…
A horror that united the faithful worldwide in prayer Growing up in the 1990s, when other boys my age were buying Shoot! magazine and Smash Hits it was always religious magazines and books that brought me to the Carlisle Bookshop on Omagh’s High Street. The first time I ever bought Time magazine was in 1994 when St John Paul II was…
As you are reading this, President Donald Trump might well be at his golf resort in Doonbeg, Co. Clare, where is a guaranteed warm welcome from some of the locals, even if the same can’t be said for the rest of the country. The visit will make for a very uncomfortable couple of days for…
Joe Sheridan’s GAA journey and an infamous afternoon in Croke Park The 2010 Leinster football final will probably always be remembered for what happened after the final whistle rather than what happened during the 70 minutes that preceded it. For much of the afternoon, it appeared that Louth’s 53-year wait for a Leinster title was…
Following in the footsteps of Sr Clare Crockett On August 8 2026, 12 pilgrims and two Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR), representing nine countries, gathered in Quito, Ecuador, for an extraordinary journey of faith, service and evangelisation. Inspired by Servant of God Sr Clare Crockett, our ‘All or Nothing Mission and Pilgrimage’ would take…
It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal A few weeks ago I wrote an article for The Irish Catholic urging the twenty-three (of twenty-seven) EU member states currently also members of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to leave NATO, giving this the sobriquet NEXIT. My…
Dear Editor, Commenting on the vocations downturn, a wise priest once told us eager students: “Gentlemen, we have enough priests to minister comfortably to practising Catholics. What we don’t have is enough priests to minister to cultural Catholics.” Increasingly, I think he was correct. Much of the present discussion about priest shortages begins with the…
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