About 70,000 pilgrims from around the world swarmed down Via della Conciliazione towards Vatican city, filling St Peter’s Square in a flurry of colour, waving caps and flags associated mainly with one of the seven people about to be recognised as saints. Safe to say, with a huge turn-out from El Salvador, St Oscar Romero…
To see somebody give their life out of love for their people is inspiring not just for Christians, but for people of all Faiths, one Dubliner who attended the canonisations on Sunday said of St Oscar Romero. An eclectic mix of energised people streamed out of St Peter’s Square after the canonisations of seven new…
Francesco Spinelli St Francesco Spinelli was born in Milan on April 14, 1853. After completing his priestly formation, he was ordained a priest in 1875. He started a community of young women in Rome who consecrated their lives to Eucharistic adoration. After meeting St Catherine Comensoli, he founded the Institute of the Adorers of the…
An Irish chaplain to the British army during World War I has been described as “imitating Christ” when he was bravely killed while administering Last Rites to a soldier. Speaking ahead of the screening of a film last week in the Vatican detailing Fr Willie Doyle SJ’s life, directed by Campbell Miller from Newcastle in…
Church charity Trócaire are concerned for the “poor and vulnerable” in Pakistan after getting a letter from their government requesting they cease operations in the country. The letter, which they received earlier this month, asked that Trócaire stop operating in Pakistan within 60 days. It provides an opportunity to re-apply for registration, but only after…
Vatican: Archbishop Eamon Martin says the Synod on Youth has just completed its second stage in which there was focus on trying to help young people find the Lord, “but also really weigh up what it is that God might be calling them to do in their lives”, thus the need for accompaniment. The…
Youth contributor to the Synod on Youth, Percival Holt from India, said it would be “wrong to judge the Church by the actions of certain people” because the Church does not belong to people, but Christ. Speaking at a Synod news briefing this afternoon he asked young people to know the Church cares for them…
Over 1,000 young people, who are currently participating or have received the Pope John Paul II Award, gathered on pilgrimage to Knock Shrine at the end of September. Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown celebrated Mass, and was joined by Bishop of Waterford and Lismore Alphonsus Cullinan and priests from participating dioceses. The pilgrimage to Knock…
Priests tell Chai Brady we deny the devil’s existence at our peril The Pope’s call to pray to Archangel Michael to protect the Church from the devil this month is a sign that the “evil one is strong at work” according to Irish priests. In a communiqué released by the Vatican at the end…
Speaking at a press conference beside Vatican City, Briana Santiago from Texas, one of the 36 young people chosen to attend the Synod on Youth at the Vatican, said every young person she’s spoken to has not had a negative experience at the Synod adding that inter generational dialogue is very important. Briana said it…