Staff reporter Aid to the Church in Need’s recent call for prayer for Myanmar was in recognition of the “extraordinarily dangerous” situation the Faithful find themselves in there, Director of ACN Ireland, Michael Kinsella told The Irish Catholic. The pontifical foundation invited Catholics on January 27 to observe a day of prayer on February 1 the…
Catholic bishops in the Holy Land invited their Orthodox counterparts to contribute to the consultation process leading to the 2023 Synod on Synodality. In a letter dated January 24, the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) explained that Catholics in the region were taking part in the local stage of a two-year synodal path launched by…
Cardinal Reinhard Marx offered a personal apology to abuse survivors on Thursday, in the wake of a report criticising the handling of cases in his archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Speaking at a live-streamed press conference in Munich, southern Germany, the 68-year-old cardinal said that the treatment of victims was “inexcusable,” reported CNA Deutsch. “I am attributed responsibility in…
Staff reporter The North’s Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) this week announced the timeframe for a phased release of data from the census held across the region last year. The agency said that the first results on raw population statistics will be published by June, with further Census 2021 results published in stages until summer 2023. The…
Peter’s Pence donations fall by 15% in 2021 Donations to Peter’s Pence fell by around 15% in 2021, the Vatican announced on Friday. In an interview with Vatican News published on January 28, Father Juan A. Guerrero, S.J., prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, said that, while donations were still arriving from some countries, there was…
Dear Editor,The name of Ashling Murphy, R.I.P. will never be forgotten, nor should it be. As the eyes and ears of the world looked at and listened to reports of her brutal murder, there seems to be a renewed and steely determination that this indeed will be a watershed moment in the struggle to bring…
Marta Osborne Both myself and my wife were very concerned about the virus and reduced our social contacts to the minimum since the beginning of the pandemic. Now with restrictions lifted, we’d like to make a renewed effort with our friends and family. Any advice? Most of us breathed a sigh of relief after hearing…
Anthony Redmond My Theology: Personal Idealism by Keith Ward (Darton, Longmann & Todd, (£8.99 / €12.59) Keith Ward was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. He is an ordained priest in the Church of England. He has written over 20 books on various aspects of philosophy and theology and is regarded as an important…
Staff reporter Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin has used the 50th anniversary of the unlawful killing of 14 unarmed Catholics by the British army to criticise the fact that no one has ever been prosecuted. “Very painfully, the Bloody Sunday families were denied for too long the truth about what happened to their loved…
Chai Brady, Ruadán Jones and Jason Osborne Four bishops have called for all the faithful to be welcomed back to parishes as excitement grows after restrictions were lifted north and south of the border. Bishop of Achonry Paul Dempsey said the lifting of restrictions is a “great opportunity” to welcome people back “to experience what…