A youth conference in Maynooth was attended by 270 Catholics of Indian background over the weekend of August 18-21. The iConnect conference was organised by Jesus Youth, an international Catholic lay movement with a special focus on a life centered on Jesus. Initiated in Ireland almost 10 years ago, the movement has a presence throughout…
The National Novena at Knock opened on Sunday August 14 with a warm summer breeze, bright blue skies and a joyous atmosphere as pilgrims, young families, tourists and passers-by gathered for beginning of the nine-day devotion to Our Lady of Knock. With the Diocese of Meath making its annual pilgrimage to the shrine, Meath’s Bishop…
Fr Conor McDonough OP Brothers and sisters, just a few weeks ago, I had the joy of being ordained a priest along with seven other men, all of us members of the Dominican Order – eight new priests for the eighth centenary of the order, since it was in 1216 that the Church gave official approval to St…
Music Ministry Together, held at Cistercian College Roscrea from August 16-21, is a summer school for youth and adult leaders with a passion for liturgical music and the desire to serve as ministers in their parishes, schools and communities. During the five-day summer school the participants gathered together as music ministers, and took part in…
Over 250 young people gathered at All Hallows College in Drumcondra, Dublin, over the weekend of August 20-21 for a conference organised by the Legion of Mary on the theme of how Mary fires up the spirit in our souls. Among the speakers at the conference was Roger Buck, an American-born convert to Catholicism from…
Katarzyna Gmerek reflects on differences between liturgy in Ireland and Poland
Dear Editor, Thank you so much for your coverage of the Olympics in recent weeks, and especially in the issue of August 18. The Irish Catholic should be commended especially for its focus on the faith dimension of the games, something too often overlooked. In other years this might be understandable, but it is hard…
Dear Editor, Fr Rolheiser in a convoluted article (IC 4/8/16), has given us his version of Hell, and on reading it I am wondering are we both in the same Church. Much of what he has written is contrary to what I had always believed. For clarification I turned to the Catechism of the Catholic…
Dear Editor, The photo of the four young women accompanying Greg Daly’s article (‘Keeping your range of university options open’, IC 18/08/2016) is a probably unintentional but appropriate illustration of a modern phenomenon in higher education – the vanishing male university student. Yours etc., Hugh Gibney, Athboy, Co Meath.
Dear Editor, Hard working Irish families pay huge taxes many of them used to pay for the problems caused by our government, a lot of them to pay for benefits for people claiming to be refugees and asylum seekers, but not all are genuine. When they are refused this status there is a long legal…