Church leaders have called on paramilitaries in the North to stop their violence for the sake of young people in the region. In a statement to coincide with the United Nations’ Universal Children’s Day, the clergy warned that the vision of the Peace Process was being lost in the face of continued violence and intimidation.…
Pope Francis is misunderstood by people both within the Church as well as by some outside it, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has said. Speaking in St Mary’s Church on Dublin’s Haddington Road as part of the Patrick Finn lecture series, Archbishop Martin said the Pope’s example “inspires some and…upsets others and leaves them insecure”. “Curiously, the…
Kenya: Bishops Fintan Monahan, William Crean, Denis Brennan and Canon Michael McLoughlin meet the Irish Ambassador to Nairobi, Mr Vincent O’Neil, and Trócaire’s Director Éamonn Meehan, the Regional Director Paul Healy and Director of the International Division Seán Farrell during the bishops’ annual Trócaire trip.
The View Martin Mansergh November is the month of remembrance, with All Saints’ Day on the 1st, followed by All Souls’ Day on the 2nd, in the Christian calendar. It is also the month when on 11 November 1918 an Armistice was called which brought the main fighting in the First World War to…
A great crafter of the spoken and written word has gone to God, writes Fr Michael Mullaney Ronan Drury came to Maynooth as a young man in 1942 to prepare for the priesthood and, apart from three years, he lived his priesthood in this college. He had a great devotion to this place and…
Cork: Aoife Horgan, Aoibhinn Barry, Conor Dineen and Laura O’Donovan who travelled to Kolkata, India to work with the Hope Foundation, received Endeavour Awards from Anthony Forde, Blarney Credit Union, at the Scoil Mhuire gan Smal, Awards Night. Picture: Mike English
Tributes have been paid to Maynooth professor Fr Ronan Drury who has died aged 93. A stalwart of the national seminary, Fr Drury taught countless generations of Irish priests the art of preaching homilies. He died on Thursday, November 16, in Dublin. A priest of the Meath Diocese, he was ordained in 1949 having begun…
Mayo: Children enjoy the Diocese of Achonry’s preparation launch for the World Meeting of Families.
WMOF 2018 Martin Kennedy People long for love that lasts. And such love is really possible. This is the good news at the heart of Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) which Pope Francis invites us to embrace and share. The World Meeting of Families 2018 Parish Conversations programme is a resource available to…
Limerick: Pupils from Doon CBS Primary School display their shoeboxes for the Christmas Showbox Appeal.