Dear Editor, I would like to point out to Hilda Nelson (Letters IC 19/12/13) that I have always accepted priests who have “paid the price” for their child sexual abuse crimes should be allowed to move on with their lives. Also that any wrongful accusation of priest or lay person is devastating to that individual…
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Thomas Merton Talk
The Irish Catholic to host talk by US-based Prof. Michael W. Higgins
Review of the Year 2013
Paul Keenan offers a round up of stories covered by The Irish Catholic in 2013
A pastoral Pope
The Pope’s interview with Fr Antonio Spadaro SJ in quotes
Francis on faith
The Pope’s encyclical in quotations
The Pope’s reform agenda
The Pope’s exhortation in quotations
‘Go, don’t fear, serve’
A look at Pope Francis’ trip to Brazil for World Youth Day
Local visits, universal messages
A round up of some of Pope Francis’ most significant visits of 2013
Troops celebrating Christmas overseas
Cpl Diarmuid Flahavan (1 Brigade Engineer Coy) from Enniskeane, Co. Cork pictured presenting Fr Robert McCabe CF with a crib (including a fence to keep the ox and donkey from straying!) at Camp Faouar, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) headquarters in Syria, where Fr McCabe he is leading the Christmas celebrations for the 43…
Pope dismisses notion of ‘clericalised’ women
Pope Francis has accused those considering women as cardinals within the Catholic Church as suffering from “clericalism”.