Catholic third-level institution Carlow College, St Patrick’s must address its “overall sustainability”, as engagement on integration continues, Minister Simon Harris has said. The college is engaging in talks with South East Technological University (SETU) on potential incorporation, after the Department for Higher Education increased funding to help “stabilising the cash flow position while the college…
The President of the Legion of Mary, Mary Murphy, has become the first Irish person appointed to the Pontifical Marian Academy International (PAMI). Ms Murphy said it was a “privilege and an honour” to accept the role, announced to her by theologian William Thomas on behalf of PAMI. “I hope I can do it justice,”…
Pope Francis has prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped”. “In Jesus the decisive passage of humanity has been made: the passage from death to life, from sin…
Armed bandits killed one person and kidnapped more than 100 others in a March 14 raid on a predominantly Catholic town in north-central Nigeria, according to a Catholic priest and other local sources. Fr Dauda Musa Bahago, a coordinator for the Justice, Development, and Peace Commission, a Catholic aid organisation, told CNA the attack took place…
Good Friday at 25 As we mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, we face new challenges but ones to which solutions can and should be found, writes Bishop Donal McKeown Like many people, I remember very well where I was when I heard about the Good Friday Agreement. Unlike most of my colleagues…
Good Friday at 25 As the deadline loomed, the sky wept thousands of raindrops, which fell like tears for thousands of victims writes, former BBC Political Correspondent Martina Purdy David Trimble did not live long enough to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. But shortly before he died, the former Ulster Unionist…
A Maltese Catholic priest who served as a chaplain in a London hospital received £10,000 (€11,396) in a settlement with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service after he alleged he was fired for expressing the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Fr Patrick Pullicino, who is also a medical doctor, sued the London NHS Trust for harassment,…
Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell has insisted that the Government must give assurance to Catholic parents that their right to choose a Catholic school for their children will be fully respected. He warned that parents’ right to choose a school with a Catholic ethos must be an integral part of the discussion around diversity of…
A group of more than 200 Protestant pastors have written to the Government urging it to stop plans to expose Junior Certificate students to pornographic content and to teach what they describe as “transgender ideology” in primary schools. The pastors warn that the proposals would increase “the numbers of broken and damaged individuals we already…
Sean O Domhnaill With his side in a division two final against Dublin in Croke Park last weekend, a great achievement for Louth at this time, it’s clear Mickey Harte and his management team have given the squad hope and confidence. In a sense, he did much the same to the very large crowd that…