Bishop Tesfaselassie Medhin of Adigrat, Ethiopia, has sent out an SOS call for swift humanitarian aid in Tigray to save millions of people facing death due to a “merciless man-made famine” in the war-torn region. While condemning the war atrocities, the bishop acknowledged individuals, institutions, governments and partners working tirelessly to bring hope to the…
Vatican Children’s Hospital to treat little patients from Libya The Libyan healthcare system has been devastated by over a decade of war and instability. Libyan doctors and medical staff face major challenges every day, and the country’s hospitals and medical centres face problems ranging from frequent power cuts and insufficient medical supplies to staff shortages.…
Living Water offers spiritual ‘recharge’ with 8-week course Charismatic Catholic young adult group Living Water is hosting a weekly in-person spirit seminar to help Catholics “recharge their spiritual batteries”. The Transformer 2022 ‘Life in the Spirit Seminar series’ will be run across eight weeks every Wednesday at 7pm, starting April 27 in the Edith Stein…
Dear Editor, There is much public discussion about the place and role of Catholic schools in Ireland today; a great deal of which is anecdotal and without much evidence. To this end, researchers with the Theology and Religious Studies Department of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick are currently undertaking a study to gather data that will…
Ruadhán Jones and Chai Brady Pleas to help those suffering from addiction are falling on deaf ears as jail rather than rehab becomes the default option, a nun working with prisoners’ families has warned. Presentation Sister Imelda Wickham urged the Government to stop letting reports on justice reform “gather dust” on shelves and address the…
Brandon Scott British actress June Brown, who most notably played the role of the chain-smoking Christian Dot Cotton on the soap opera Eastenders for 31 years, wanted to be remembered for her devout commitment to her faith above any of her acting distinctions. The soap icon who died on Monday confessed in 2014 to BBC’s…
Brandon Scott Sr Mary Kevin O’Higgins, the daughter of politician Kevin O’Higgins who was assassinated by anti-Treaty members while journeying to Mass in Booterstown, Dublin, passed away last week at the age of 98. Born in Government Buildings on the June 7, 1923, Sr O’Higgins was four years of age before tragedy struck her family…
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in an interview published on last week that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is “not set in stone” and “one is also allowed to doubt what it says.” The cardinal made the comments in a seven-page spread in the March 31 edition of the weekly current affairs magazine Stern, reported CNA Deutsch. Cardinal…
A former Vatican official facing charges of extortion and abuse of office related to a controversial London property deal said he was acting under obedience in his role and made no decisions without approval from his direct superior, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra. Msgr Mauro Carlino, who served as secretary to then-Archbishop Angelo Becciu, when he…
An Arab Christian police officer was one of five killed by a Palestinian gunman in a suburb of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv March 29. The attack took place that evening in Bnei Brak, one of the country’s most populous ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas. One of those killed was Christian police officer Amir Khoury, a…