The Clare Rose, Aoife Murray with Bishop Fintan Monahan on the Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes last week, where she was part of the carer team.
Clare Rose blooms in Lourdes
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Smoking out Islamic militants
Smoke is seen following a Philippine Army airstrike as government troops continue their assault against Islamic militants in Marawi. The Bishop of Marawi dismissed as “ridiculous” proposals to negotiate for the release of a priest held captive by terrorist gunmen. Photo: CNS
Neighbours advised to carpool to Mass
The Bishop of Kerry has suggested that parishioners should carpool to Sunday Mass in neighbouring parishes as one way to address the shortage of priests in the diocese. In publishing the diocesan list of changes of priests, Bishop Ray Browne acknowledged that a sixth parish, Knocknagoshel, is now without a resident priest and that means…
New parking restrictions at Raheen church
Parking restrictions have been recently enforced in the car park adjacent to Raheen Church in Limerick following multiple complaints from Mass-goers. Limerick City and County Council has erected signage in the area indicating it is now governed by parking bye-laws which require people to pay, with failure to do so resulting in a €40 fine. Cllr James…
New CDF chief brings great personal skills
Fr Bernard Healy On Saturday, Pope Francis appointed a man familiar to many Rome-educated Irish clergy, namely Jesuit Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. From 1984 until 2008 he was on the theology faculty of the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where most of the…
Follow Vatican’s lead to save Venezuela, former Latin leaders say
Time is running out to solve Venezuela’s problems, two former Latin American leaders have announced, calling for the international community to follow the Vatican’s lead in tackling the crisis. Speaking in the Vatican, Bolivia’s former president Jorge Quiroga said that President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to “put a group of his friends in what is called…
Church says protests are response to government failure
Campaigns by the ethnic Gorkha people for a separate homeland in the Darjeeling area of eastern India are based in real grievances, according to the local Church. The area has witnessed violent clashes since June 8, and although Darjeeling’s Bishop Stephen Lepcha said: “The Church is not directly involved in the protest,” he has added,…
Dignity of all is key to equal human rights
Recognising that “all people are born with inherent equal dignity and worth and have a fundamental right to life” is at the heart of human rights, the Vatican’s UN nuncio has said. Speaking to Latin American leaders at the Organisation of American States’ general assembly, Archbishop Bernardito Auza voiced concerns over how “the right to…
Cardinal condemns Islamist attack on Philippines chapel
The reported desecration of a Catholic chapel in the Philippines by terrorist gunmen has been condemned “in the strongest terms possible” by Cotabato’s Cardinal Orlando Quevedo. About 300 members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, an ISIS-affiliated group known as BIFF, attacked Pigcawayan town on June 21, displacing about 1,700 people and destroying religious images…
Fear underpins move to create new Zambian dictatorship
Zambia’s president is guilty of intimidating opponents and silencing the media, according to the head of the Zambian Catholic bishops’ conference and other religious leaders in the east African country. Describing the country as being at a crossroads as it faces “many challenges related to governance, the muzzling of people’s freedoms and human rights violations”,…