Mass for Easter Sunday will be broadcast live at 10am on RTÉ One television from the Swiss city of Fribourg. The Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Charles Morerod OP in the Church of St Peter, with commentary and translation by Michael Kelly, Editor of The Irish Catholic. The Mass will begin at x. The…
Letter from Rome Justin McLellan The people behind chatbots are asking questions of priests and ethicists rather than turning to their artificially intelligent creations. They want to know: What is consciousness? What is the nature of humanity? What is the purpose of life? According to Fr Phillip Larrey, dean of the philosophy department at the…
A synod of German bishops overwhelmingly approved Church blessings of same-sex unions and unions between divorced and remarried Catholics, but the move has faced harsh criticism from some members of the Catholic hierarchy who have accused the German bishops of abandoning the Faith. German Cardinal Gerhard Müller and American Cardinal Raymond Burke rebuked the German…
Actor Rainn Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight in the hit TV series The Office, recently took to Twitter to criticise Hollywood’s “anti-Christian bias”. Wilson’s tweet responded to a depiction of a cannibalistic Christian preacher in a new episode of HBO’s popular zombie series The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal. “I do…
There has been a sharp decline in the number of people who are married in the North of Ireland from 61% in 1971 to 46% in 2021, according to the latest statistics. The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency released the data this week. It found that 693,000 adults (aged 16 and over) are married…
A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s political thought by Michael Lamb (Princeton University Press, £35.00 / US$29.99) Frank Litton We are told that the world is divided into those who see the glass half-full and those who report it half-empty. This seems to be the case with politics. For many, perhaps the majority, all goes well. The…
Well-known in Ireland for offering recordings of Catholic speakers on a variety of topics, Eist Audio Productions has introduced the new name of ‘Hearing God’s Word’ as they launch the website globally. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Eist owner Paul Daly said that the new website will enable customers to access their recordings via…
As our Lenten journey edges towards Holy Week, Sr Anouska Robinson-Biggin FCJ identifies three invitations in the Triduum In the final days of Lent, the liturgies of Holy Week issue each of us with an invitation to ‘be with’ Jesus in a special way. This time, described by Pope Francis as “the heart of the…
The St Vincent de Paul society has warned the Antrim Town community not to be fooled by people claiming to conduct door-to-door collections on behalf of the society. The warning comes as individuals posing as volunteers called at houses in the Antrim parish area, claiming to be taking up a collection. The SVP “do not…
Letter from Holy Land Tom Tracy The priest-director of the Cultural Heritage Office for the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, or Custody of the Holy Land, in Jerusalem opened a drawer of vestments and casually dropped an unexpected historical tidbit about a clerical chasuble he was showing a group of foreign guests. The chasuble was part of a…