US woman sets bees on police A US woman is facing several charges after allegedly unleashing honeybees to attack police officers as they enforced an eviction on a home in Massachusetts. The incident happened after Rorie Susan Woods, a 55-year-old professional beekeeper from Hadley, MA arrived at the property towing a stack of manufactured beehives…
As his cause opens, Fr Willie Doyle can be an inspiration for the Church today, writes Fr John Hogan On October 27 last, Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan promulgated an eict announcing that he was opening the Cause for the Beatification and Canonisation of Jesuit priest and war hero, Fr Willie Doyle. The bishop’s decision…
Synodality text praised at Vatican event The Holy Spirit is at work in the latest document of the Synod on Synodality, presenters said October 27 at a press conference on the guiding text for the next stage of the synod’s discussions. The document, or “synthesis of the syntheses,” Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, said, “is therefore…
Dear Editor, The Government is considering plans to extend exclusion zones to any place that might putatively be providing “termination of pregnancy services” and not only those already doing so. The term itself is broad enough to cover everything from an actual abortion clinic all the way down to any local pharmacy that might be…
by Fr John Harris OP Notebook The recent tragic events in the village of Creeslough, Co. Donegal reminded me of a journey from a funeral I attended with two friends a long number of years ago in Donegal. We had attended the funeral of a nephew of a mutual friend and were returning to Dublin.…
Mother Teresa: No Greater Love, a documentary on the remarkable life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the heroic work of the religious order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, will be released in select cinemas in Ireland on Wednesday, 2 November. It was a U.S. box office hit during its two-night-only release earning over…
Staff Reporter The hierarchy of the ACP have criticised Archbishop-emeritus Diarmuid Martin for not offering a cup of tea when they visited the archbishop’s house. The retired Archbishop of Dublin was praised at first for his engagement with priests, with Fr John Murphy PE describing him as “an extraordinarily generous man”. He added later that…
Staff Reporter Statistics released to Aontú under the Freedom of Information Act show that 357 homeless people have died in Dublin since 2018, with 70 deaths recorded in the capital so far this year. Commenting on the finding, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD said that the housing minister should feel a “deep sense of shame”.…
Staff Reporter Archbishop-emeritus Patrick Coveney (88), who served as Papal Nuncio to Greece and New Zealand, has died, the diocese of Cork and Ross have announced. Perhaps Archbishop Coveney’s greatest claim to fame came when he acted as interpreter for Pope Paul VI during the visit to the Vatican of the first astronauts to land…
As France begins a national debate on euthanasia, Pope Francis urged politicians from the country’s northern region to reject the “throwaway culture” and instead focus on providing care and relief to those nearing the end of their lives. “I dare to hope that on such essential issues the debate can be conducted in truth to…