Hospital chaplains in the North have described the conferring of the George Cross to the NHS from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as “a great honour”. The George Cross was awarded to the NHS to mark decades of public service, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday. It is the highest award for gallantry and heroism in the…
Several young people were chased away from Clonard Monastery in Belfast by locals after they were said to be interfering with a statue and trying to dislodge a stone cross. Fr Peter Burns CSsR, Rector of Clonard Monastery, told The Irish Catholic that on Monday evening young people were “trying to interfere with” a statue…
Digital catechesis: teaching old practices using modern technology, Chai Brady writes All Christians are called to proclaim the Gospel but in order to do so they must have a solid faith formation. Seeing the need to make learning about the faith more convenient as many parishioners are often very busy during the week, Fr Dermot…
As parishes transfer more schools to non-religious patrons, the law must be changed to allow remaining schools to be unapologetically Catholic. Bishop Tom Deenihan told The Irish Catholic there is a need for the Government to remove a controversial law on school admissions that risks preventing Catholic schools from catering for the needs of those…
Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell has tapped Fr Gareth Byrne to take over the key position overseeing the day-to-day running of diocesan administration. As Moderator of the Curia, Fr Byrne will be a key adviser to Dr Farrell and supervise diocesan offices and agencies on behalf of the archbishop. He replaced Msgr Paul Callan, a…
A Spanish social media ‘influencer’ who has millions of followers has expressed his pro-life position in several videos, saying “abortion is interrupting a life”. Naim Darrechi (19), who has 26 million followers on TikTok, said that “When a woman is pregnant, if she doesn’t take anything, if she doesn’t abort, the natural cycle is going…
Pilgrims have been welcomed back to Croagh Patrick this year with an “ambitious project” which aims to extend access to the sacraments for the pilgrimage from Wednesday to Saturday this month, July 1-31. The annual Reek Sunday pilgrimage was cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to this, the administrator of Westport Fr Charlie…
A vocation to priesthood is a call to be more, bring more and give more, Fr Séamus McEntee of Dublin Diocese tells Chai Brady “There’s change in the air,” according to the new director of vocations in the archdiocese of Dublin, and coming out of a pandemic, which has been a time to reassess life’s…
Conversations hinge on local discussions and agreement if Catholic schools are to divest patronage, Bishop Tom Deenihan tells Chai Brady School divestment has come to the fore of discussions in Ireland once again, as it does every few years, but perhaps one of the differences this time is that the bishops in a statement after…
Attacks on a Carlow Catholic school by politicians, journalists and commentators were “entirely unfair” based on “fake news” and caused teachers “enormous stress” The Irish Catholic has been told. The Press Ombudsman found this week that a report about alleged ‘body shaming’ in Presentation College Carlow by a local newspaper had been entirely false. Local…