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…
Christopher Hill: The life of a radical historian, by Michael Braddick (London: Verso Press, £35.00 / €42.95) Though I occasionally met Christopher Hill (1912 -2002), he was, as the author of this thoughtful study attests, as reserved within his kindly and courteous public demeanour as to have left me with little sense of his actual…
For more than two decades, a prominent sister-led coalition has raised awareness at the United Nations on a host of pressing global issues – most recently on homelessness – and made its mark on deliberations at the world body. But now the coalition will end its ministry by the end of the year. UNANIMA International is a…
A thousand kilometres from the town of Dundalk lies the final resting place of a remarkable young Irish priest who gave his life in the service of others during the Second World War. Buried in the churchyard of the Église Saint-Martin in the village of Ussy, Normandy, his grave is marked by a simple headstone:…
Dear Editor, I wish to commend Fr Martin Delaney for his powerful and courageous article addressing the annual transfer of priests. In highlighting the personal and communal impact of these transitions, Fr Delaney invites us all to reflect more compassionately and thoughtfully on how we support our priests and our parish communities through such changes.…
It is difficult to fathom how a government so eager to speak of “inclusion,” “equity,” and “reconciliation” continues to pursue a €26.2 million financial demand from the Legion of Mary — an organisation that, by every available measure, did more for Ireland’s most vulnerable women than the State itself ever dared to do. The Regina…
The anti-Catholic dialogue and its inaccuracies Dear Editor, it was good to see letters and articles in recent issues of The Irish Catholic in defence of the catholic authorities, including those nuns who ran the Mother and Baby Homes. I feel a strong sense of gratitude to all those people who still come out in…