Liam Fitzpatrick Personal Profile Fr Yanbo Chen felt lost. Working in a job he didn’t enjoy, he turned to his faith and a few Catholic monks to provide him with guidance. The monks presented Fr Chen with a piece of paper that changed his life. “I kneeled down to prayer, and I pulled a little…
The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman said it is “deeply disturbing and tragic” that President Joe Biden has chosen to use his power as the nation’s chief executive “to promote and facilitate abortion in our country” than support resources for pregnant women in need. Mr Biden is “seeking every possible avenue to deny unborn children their most basic human and…
Staff reporter The Jesuits at the Vatican Observatory were wowed like most people by the beauty of the photos from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but the director said they also are excited by the scientific information the telescope will reveal. Human spirit “Such images are a necessary food for the human spirit – we…
The Capuchin Day Centre has seen a rise in working families accessing the service, Liam Fitzpatrick learns A man stands at the door to the Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin, welcoming visitors, holding a surgical mask and asking no questions. Inside the Centre, Bro. Kevin Crowley offers smiles and handshakes – and still no questions.…
Pope Francis names three women to office that helps him choose bishops Ten days after saying he would name two women to the group that helps him choose bishops, Pope Francis appointed three women to the office. The Vatican announced on July 13 that the Pope had named 14 new members of the Dicastery for Bishops. For the first…
Dear Editor, The article about TheJournal.ie’s coverage of the pro-life rally was very humorous [The Irish Catholic – July 7, 2022]. Their reporting that “hundreds” of people attended was so blatantly wrong it’s a miracle it was not caught by the organisation’s editors. As miracles are few and far between, in reality it seems to…
Staff reporter The European Parliament (EP) is becoming a “focal point of pro-abortion activism” after parliamentarians passed a resolution decrying the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs Wade according to an Irish legal counsel based in Strasbourg. The resolution adopted July 7 saw the EP criticise the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs vs…
Marilyn Rodrigues The second assembly of Australia’s plenary council closed at the weekend after two days of catching up and passing almost all of the motions in its guiding document, including a revised version of the section on the equal dignity of women and men in the Church. Members were noticeably tired after a long week,…
Christian mechanic Ashfaq Masih has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan after allegedly saying that Jesus Christ is the only true prophet. Reading out the 12-page judgment July 4, Khalid Wazir, additional session judge of the Lahore High Court, sentenced Mr Masih to death and fined him 100,000 rupees (€1,246). Mr Masih, 34,…
The second assembly of Australia’s plenary council ran from July 3-9. A plenary council has wide-ranging power, and Australia has gone through an extensive process to get to this point. Here are some key questions and answers. Q. What was the plenary council? A plenary council is a gathering of the local Church; it has…