Archbishop Michael Neary has urged parishioners to challenge priests to ensure that they are living up to their vocation. He was speaking in Knock Shrine on Sunday as he presided at the ordination of Fr Shane Costello. Pointing out that seven priests of the Tuam Archdiocese have died in the last year, Dr Neary said…
Archbishop Antonio Filipazzi, Papal ambassador to Nigeria, has said the government was not doing enough to protect its citizens from violence, insurgents and other social vices. He also said the people being killed were not just Christians, but also Muslims. Speaking at a news conference as part of the finale of year-long celebrations of the…
The archbishop of Minsk prayed outside of a prison in Belarus where detained protesters were reported to have been tortured. With a rosary in his hands, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz [pictured] walked the streets in front of the Akrestsin Street pre-trial detention centre at 3pm on August 19, reported the website of the Catholic Church in…
Tributes have been paid to a late priest-philosopher who helped form generations of both priests and lay students at Maynoooth. Fr Donal Daly SVD – who was 84 – died “peacefully and patiently” after what confrères described as a long illness. Born in Fermoy in Co. Cork in 1936, he entered the noviciate of the…
The Colombian Bishops’ Conference appealed for peace following two brutal massacres of young people last week in the country. In a statement, the bishops expressed their “deep grief and concern” over the killings. “We pray to God for the victims and we express our closeness and solidarity with their families, the inhabitants of the cities…
A restoration project at a country house in Norfolk, England has uncovered items that shed new light on the steadfast faith of a Catholic family in the wake of the English Reformation. The discoveries include a fragment of a 15th-Century illuminated manuscript found by a builder in the eaves of Oxburgh Hall, a moated manor…
The body of a Belfast priest was recovered from Detroit river five days after a freak accident capsized the boat he was travelling on. Fr Stephen Rooney, PP of St Joseph’s, Trenton, Illinois, and one other passenger went missing on Sunday, August 16. Their fishing charter overturned when it hit a submerged rock in the Detroit river’s channel,…
Living Laudato Si’ September 1st marks the World Day of Prayer for Creation and the beginning of the Season of Creation. This season, which is now part of the Church’s liturgical calendar, runs until October 4th, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron Saint of ecology. The Season of Creation in an ecumenical season…
Letter from America Christopher White In a moving essay published earlier this month in America magazine, the writer Mike Lewis chronicles how the division in the Church over Pope Francis has divided his own family, with his elderly (now deceased) mother spending her final years on earth saying that Francis has confused the Church. “My…
Watching Mass at home is a poor substitute for full participation in the liturgy, Bishop Donal McKeown has warned. He also said that the Church is held together “not by human strength but by God’s providence and plan”. In a homily at the weekend, the Bishop of Derry expressed the “hope that we will soon…