Pope Francis will celebrate the Catholic Church’s first World Day of the Poor this Sunday by celebrating a morning Mass with people in need and those who assist them. After Mass, he will offer lunch to 500 people in the Vatican audience hall. As the Year of Mercy was ending in November 2016, Pope Francis…
In Brief Last month thieves in France robbed and desecrated ten churches in the Diocese of Annecy, in the France’s Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region. The perpetrators are believed to be two men who gained access by forcing open the church doors with a crow bar. In Sainte Marie Madeleine de Morzine parish, the criminals broke open and desecrated…
Youth Space Mairead Duffy reports on a trip to Medjugorje by Holy Trinity College, Cookstown and St Patrick’s Academy, Dungannon It has been said that when our Lady wants you to go to Medjugorje she will call you. She most certainly called each and every member of our group. It has also been…
Vatican: Pope Francis pats the head of a young relative of Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes during a private audience with the president at the Vatican.
Sligo: Shauna Greene, from Roscommon, receives the St Asicus Award for excellence in Religious Education, from Bishop Kevin Doran, on her graduation from St Angela’s College NUIG.
Dublin: Pat Doyle, Eoghan Murphy and Peter McVerry from the Peter McVerry Trust at the charity’s Annual Report 2016 Launch last week.
Poland: Nationalists light flares and carry flags to mark Poland’s 99th anniversary of independence in Warsaw, November 11.
Wexford: Mr Simon Tu, representative of Taiwan to Ireland, visits Enniscorthy with Bishop Denis Brennan and TD James Browne. Mr Tu’s visit aims to strengthen economic, social and cultural links between his country and Wexford.
Mexico: A truck commutes through the Anapra neighbourhood in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city that borders the US city of El Paso in Texas. Border controls have steadily increased since the 1990s.
Cork: Bishop John Buckley presents Mairin Ni Shuilleabhain with the insignia of Dame of Saint Gregory the Great, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Carraig na bhFear.