‘On Mission with Mary’, a youth conference hosted by the Legion of Mary at their headquarters in Dublin 7 on Saturday, August 30, saw Catholic youth aged 18 to 40 gather for a day of talks, workshops and socialising. The conference featured talks from Sr Mary Magdalene of Limerick and Fr Michael Kennedy PP of…
The days of comfortable Catholicism are past, The days of socially acceptable Christianity are over. The days of comfortable Catholicism are past. It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic witness to the truths of the Gospel. A price is demanded. There are costs of discipleship – heavy…
Should I offer the sacraments to a parishioner with a limited lifespan? A man who lives in one of my parishes was given six months to live last February. He is an ordinary simple man, who likes nothing more than farming his land. In fact, the thought of dying would not be as hard for…
Dear Editor, having read Fr John Harris’ article ‘the world at war and the Beatitudes’ (The Irish Catholic, August 21) I note the omission of the main cause of global violence and destruction of life – abortion. As St Mother Teresa of Calcutta stated “there can be no peace in the world while we support…
Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the natural family as the key to peace and harmony in society, writes Fr Kevin O’Reilly OP Shortly after his election to the See of Peter, Pope Leo XIV’s stated during an audience that family is “founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman.” While orthodox Catholics welcomed…
Why you, and not me?” Pope Francis once asked while visiting inmates in Rome’s Rebibbia prison. That phrase, which showed deep empathy, still resonates in the minds and hearts of the inmates, who today live their special Jubilee of Hope – welcoming visitors, sharing stories, and expressing their wishes. With his words, the Pope sought…
Two years after “the worst episode of violence against Christians” in Pakistan’s history, according to the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Indrias Rehmat of Faisalabad said the community of the faithful is outraged by the apparent failure of justice. In August 2023, Muslims in the village of Jaranwala in the…
On July 17, 1794 sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiegne were guillotined in Paris, during the height of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution. At the suggestion of their prioress, Sr Teresa of St Augustine, they had offered their lives for peace in their country and in the Church. Ten days after their execution…
Over a month on from the death of Br Kevin Crowley OFM Cap, the Capuchin Day Centre’s Manager Alan Bailey pays a personal tribute to the friar ‘who practised what he preached’ The legendary heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali is quoted as saying that “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here…
We must act now for Gaza Dear Editor, what are we to say in the future when they ask us what we did during the Gaza genocide? What will we tell the children and grandchildren when they ask? That we wrung our hands at the horrors, lamented the starvation, the brutality, the bombings, the killings…