The Israeli government has announced people travelling to the Holy Land will no longer have to take a PCR test on arrival from Saturday, May 21. It will also no longer be required to present a negative Covid test result before boarding a flight to Israel and the requirement to isolate for 24 hours after…
There is an “urgent need to find new ways for priests and people to work together” the archbishop of Dublin said during the archdiocese’s ‘Lay Ministry Collection’. Taking place from May 14-15, the collection supports lay people develop their talents and skills to be used in the faith community. Archbishop Dermot Farrell said the collection…
Irish charity GOAL is working towards long term solutions as the damage done to Ukraine will echo far into the future, writes Chai Brady Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has continued far longer than many analysts expected, the war is in its third month and currently there is no end in sight. Irish charity GOAL has…
Children’s Corner If a person was to say that you couldn’t get wet despite an upside-down bucket of water being above your head, you might think they have lost their mind. But what happens when the bucket is spinning quickly in a circular motion? This experiment examines something people may have already experienced in their…
There has been an increase in the number of women expressing an interest in becoming nuns and joining contemplative orders, according to the director of Vocations Ireland. Despite a downward trend in vocations to religious life in Ireland over the past few decades, Margaret Cartwright told The Irish Catholic recently in Ireland “there is an…
The Archdiocese of Dublin will be auctioning hundreds of items from its former seminary in order to make space to house Ukrainian refugees. Taking place on May 10, there will be more than 600 lots from Clonliffe College in Drumcondra auctioned. Viewing on site is currently taking place and will continue until Monday, May 9.…
Vocational Supplement Ireland’s hostile media landscape can make promoting religious vocations difficult, Chai Brady hears The Church’s long history across the world has been punctuated with tremendous growth and decline, despite these swings and roundabouts there has always been those who felt a calling to enter religious life – even though the numbers sometimes dwindle.…
A professor of human rights in the North has warned rhetoric in the run up to the election and at protests against the Northern Ireland Protocol are “very concerning”. Catholic academic Prof. Colin Harvey of Queen’s University Belfast, who suffered severe online abuse after he was targeted in a speech at an anti-protocol rally earlier…
The founder of Poetry Ireland has encouraged artists “examining their faith” to apply for a Government scheme aimed to support the arts through a weekly €325 payment. Poet and novelist John F. Deane, whose works often focus on Christ and faith, has said it would be very helpful for artists’ development and urged people involved…
Sr André of the Daughters of Charity, born Lucile Randon, has become the oldest person on Earth, aged 118. The blind sister lives at a nursing home in Toulon along the Mediterranean coast. She begins each day with breakfast, a morning Mass, and has a glass of wine every day. Sr André was born into…