Fr Willie Doyle SJ offers young men a model of “healthy forms of masculinity”, Bishop Tom Deenihan has said, as the World War I chaplain’s cause for canonisation heads to Rome. Speaking to The Irish Catholic after the closing of the diocesan inquiry in The Cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar on Sunday, the…
The Church in Ireland has become “much more open to accepting that we’re not a perfect Church”, the Primate of All Ireland has said, crediting Amoris Laetitia with helping the Church to accept the brokenness and fragility of marriage. Speaking to The Irish Catholic at the close of a week-long Vatican summit marking ten years since the exhortation, Archbishop…
More than 3,000 relics of saints and martyrs will go on public display at a Kilkenny church on All Saints’ Day, in an event inviting visitors to reflect on the lives of those who have gone before them in faith. St Canice’s Parish will make the collection available for veneration during and after its 11:30am…
Hundreds of pro-life advocates gathered at the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, for the Pro Life Campaign National Conference 2026 on Saturday, October 17. The event offered a space for discussions, workshops and talks. Addressing the present, Pro Life Campaign’s Eilís Mulroy said the Oireachtas Health Committee, “tasked with scrutinising Sinn Féin’s bill to abolish the three-day…
Over 300 delegates took part in the National Synod Assembly at the City North Hotel, Gormanston, Co. Meath, on Saturday, October 17. Throughout the day, the many nominated lay, clerical and religious delegates from dioceses, parishes, religious congregations, ecclesial movements and other communities from across the Church in Ireland considered and voted on 35 proposals,…
A new training course on synodality will open on October 26, organised by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre of the Sophia University Institute, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod. The 2026-2027 course will begin with a free online webinar entitled ‘Toward a New Humanism: A Synodal Way of Life’. The webinar is open…
Cause advances to Rome after historic ceremony at Mullingar Cathedral The Cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar was packed on Sunday afternoon, October 18, for the closing of the diocesan inquiry into the cause for canonisation of Fr Willie Doyle SJ. The choirs sang, standard-bearers of the Royal British Legion stood with their…
A story broke last week which ought to have received widespread coverage in the Irish media but instead got very little. The details are covered elsewhere in this paper, so I’ll just give you the bare bones of it here. Ireland currently holds the presidency of the European Union and therefore an international conference aimed…
Deacon Fergal O’Neill The Church of Our Lady and St Joseph in Caragh, Co. Kildare, will host a special celebration at 6.30pm on Thursday, November 19 2026, for the enshrinement of the first-class relics of St Carlo Acutis. The chief celebrant will be Bishop Denis Nulty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. The occasion follows a…
Irish Archbishop Paul Tighe has warned against treating artificial intelligence as inevitable, saying people must be actively involved in shaping how the technology develops. Speaking at a European discussion on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, Archbishop Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, said “there is nothing inevitable about AI”. He said the…
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