In a very close result ‘Amazing Grace’ was pipped at the post by ‘Lady of Knock’ in the search for Ireland’s favourite hymn. The competition was run by the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin and Bishop Denis Nulty at the National Ploughing Championships last week. Speaking to The Irish Catholic after the results were announced,…
Young people in schools, colleges and universities undertake their studies at a time of much “uncertainty, anxiety and hardship”, the Archbishop of Dublin has said. In a homily given at the opening of the academic year Mass at DCU’s St Patrick’s Campus, Archbishop Dermot Farrell said a good leader, who has a heart open to…
The Northern bishops have warned that an absence of an Executive at Stormont is impeding efforts to respond to the cost of living “emergency” and called on parishes and politicians to do what they can to help. In a statement this week the bishops warned that cost increases are creating “life threatening levels of deprivation”.…
Children’s Corner If you don’t know what invisible ink is, or how to make it, you are missing out. It can be a great way to send secret messages to your friends that won’t be intercepted by anyone else. It’s a method that can be tracked back for thousands of years and has been used…
Comments made by Irish MEP Mick Wallace about a bishop detained by the Nicaraguan regime have been dubbed “inexcusable” and “reckless” by an Irish missionary. The European Parliament motion on Nicaragua, which decried the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez and the “repression” of the Church in the country under authoritarian leader Daniel Ortega, passed by…
The Primate of All-Ireland has said he hopes that following Queen Elizabeth II’s death the risks she took to build peace will not be forgotten. Archbishop Eamon Martin of the Archdiocese of Armagh attended the queen’s funeral on Monday. He said: “Since the queen’s death there has been an outpouring of affection and genuine respect…
Thousands attended the March for Life in Dublin on Saturday with attendees walking from St Stephen’s Green to Leinster House to call on the Government to address the large increase in abortions in Ireland as well as to push for positive alternatives to abortion. Eilís Mulroy of the Pro Life Campaign, organisers of the march,…
A selection of 21 penal crosses have been taken out of storage and put on display until the end of October at the Mayo branch of the National Museum of Ireland. The crosses, dating back to the early 18th to the middle of the 19th Century, can be seen at ‘Country Life’ in Turlough Park,…
The country’s largest diocese is to push ahead with “crucial” plans to make First Holy Communion ceremonies simpler and more parish-based, despite fewer priests and parish pastoral workers. Dublin Diocese is reacting after many priests and parishioners reported that smaller ceremonies – necessitated by Covid-19 postponements – were better because they focused on the importance…
Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral Mass of three siblings killed in Tallaght, September 9. The Mass for eight-year-old twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley and their older sister Lisa Cash (18) was celebrated by Fr Paul O’Driscoll, chaplain to the Parish of the Travelling People. Fr O’Driscoll paid tribute to the siblings’ 14-year-old brother,…