Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has given a strong indication that he may well step down before he is due to retire in April 2020. Dr Martin – who first came back to Dublin as coadjutor archbishop in 2003 and succeeded Cardinal Desmond Connell the following year – has presided over one of the…
A New York-based Irish seminarian who has dedicated his ministry to working with disadvantaged people in the city will feature as part of a forthcoming item on RTÉ television. Nationwide presenter Colm Flynn spent the day with Niall McDonagh, originally from Galway but studying for the Archdiocese of New York. Mr Flynn – a regular…
A leading expert on Pope Francis will address the Pontiff’s reform agenda and its relevance for the Church here just ahead of the Pope’s historic trip to Ireland. John L. Allen – a journalist who has covered the papacies of St John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis – will speak about the revolution that…
A former English footballer has praised hundreds of young pilgrims for travelling from England to Lourdes to help the sick. Commenting in response to a message on Twitter, Stan Collymore, a former Liverpool football player, said that the 400 young people making the trip to the Marian Shrine will have an obvious impact on those…
Matthew Carlson Councillors in South Dublin have rejected a call to fly the traditional Papal flag during the Pope’s historic trip here next month. Renua Councillor Ronan McMahon had proposed that the flag – the official flag of the Holy See – would fly above South Dublin County Hall in Tallagh during the visit. However,…
Davis Clark Pilgrims across Ireland will be trekking through the country in order to reflect and pray at some well-known ancient sites. After a successful inauguration last year, Ireland’s second pilgrim journey was launched on Wednesday, July 18 to great excitement. The journey will take place from August 18 until August 25, taking pilgrims through…
Editorials in national Catholic publications have taken the US Catholic Church to task for its failure to root out all forms of clergy sexual abuse in the light of allegations made by former seminarians against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington. “The Catholic Church cannot pretend to be shocked about the pattern of…
Pilgrimage is a time for young people to encounter God, writes Fr Brendan Quinlivan One of the great films that explores the theme of Pilgrimage is The Way, directed by Emilio Estevez and starring his father Martin Sheen. At the heart of the film is the famous pilgrimage, or Camino, to Santiago di Compostela.…
Pope Francis will canonise a teenage boy during the Synod of bishops on young people in October. Nunzio Sulprizio will be declared a saint alongside Oscar Romero and Paul VI and four others in a ceremony on October 14. Sulprizio was born on April 13, 1817, in the Abruzzo region near Pescara. Both of his…
Inés San Martín An already noticeable edge to Argentina’s mounting abortion debate turned even nastier in mid-July with the release of a ‘Doom’-inspired video game called ‘Doom Fetito’ in which players scramble to procure an abortion-inducing drug by battling Catholic priests, Nazi-like police and pro-life women, and then ultimately kill ‘the boss’, meaning an…