Staff Reporter Research by price comparison website confused.com has revealed that Ireland is the worst of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) states when it comes to “public family policies”. The State scored just 1.05 out of 10 when it came to spending on family, education and more. Ireland also came in second…
Pope Francis has selected a French Jesuit theologian and a Jewish law professor as winners of the Ratzinger Prize. The winners for 2022, announced by the Vatican October 7, are: Jesuit Fr Michel Fédou, professor of dogmatic theology and patristics at the Centre Sèvres of Paris and dean of the faculty of theology. He is…
On the date marking 700 days of war in Ethiopia’s region of Tigray, Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin of Adigrat restated his call to the local and international community to act to save millions of people. People must “exercise their moral duty (to) be a voice of the voiceless and enforce international treaties to save more than…
Mercy sisters dip into podcasting Three Mercy Sisters from the Western Province have ventured into the world of podcasting in order to share their stories. Sr Angela Bracken tells of the two choices she faced at the age of eighteen: the convent or the stage, while Srs Noreen Lyons and Anne Mills reveal how their…
Pope Francis said he was “deeply saddened” after hearing the news of one of the world’s worst mass shootings at a day care centre in northeast Thailand. In a message sent October 7 by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, the Pope offered prayers for the victims “of the horrific attack” that claimed the lives of…
Four women chosen to run world’s most remote post office in Antarctica Four women are to travel to a distant part of Antarctica to take up jobs including running the world’s most remote post office and counting the island’s penguins. Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone beat a record number of applicants…
New cardinals appointed as members of dicasteries Pope Francis appointed several recently created cardinals to be members of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia, the Vatican announced. Among the new appointments announced by the Vatican October 7 was Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego, who will serve as a member of the Dicastery for Laity,…
Staff Reporter Irish pilgrims travelled to the Holy Land from October 1-9 and visited numerous sites connected to Christ’s life including Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem. There were 46 pilgrims on the trip, with Fr Eamonn Conway as the spiritual director. The pilgrimage was organised by Marian Pilgrimages and The Irish Catholic.
by Dennis Sadowski Participants at a Catholic-led conference on peace on the Korean Peninsula said it might be time to rethink how to engage with North Korea, because economic sanctions and displays of military strength have not deterred the country from aggressively pursuing a nuclear weapons development program. Such a reset, conference speakers said, could…
Following demands for an apology and a threat he might “file an official complaint with the Holy Father,” the German Bishops’ Conference president met with a Vatican cardinal in Rome this week. Bishop Georg Bätzing sat down with Cardinal Kurt Koch October 4 to apparently clear the air over what the German Bishop Bätzing had…