Notre Dame University has begun work on its new education centre at Kylemore Abbey. The prestigious Catholic university, located close to Chicago, has strong links with Ireland where it has a centre in Dublin’s Merrion Square, 2000 of its students have studied since 1998, and its famous football team, the ‘Fighting Irish’, played at the…

The Chairman of the Pro-Life Campaign is to speak on ‘Repealing the Eighth Amendment: What would Blessed Titus Brandsma do?’ on Wednesday, October 7 at 6.30pm in the Central Catholic Library, Merrion Square, Dublin 2.  Dr Joe McCarroll will speak at the first of a number of talks to be held at the venue organised…

The winners of The Irish Catholic competition for tickets to hear Philip Scott sing in the National Concert Hall on October 4 are Brid Dillon from Ennis, Co. Clare, and Pamela Doyle, from Terenure, Dublin 12. Philip Scott will be singing the songs of Count John McCormack.

Pope Francis at UN has laid down challenge to world leaders to urgently respond to those living in poverty and facing injustice, writes Trócaire’s Éamonn Meehan

Lisette Carr went to the US and heard the Pope invigorate a whole generation

Coup leaders agree to restore power to deposed Burkina Faso leader Leaders of a September 16 coup in Burkina Faso are to restore to power the deposed president Michel Kafando. The army and the Régiment Sécurité Présidentielle (RSP) have agreed that the latter should withdraw from their positions in the capital city Ouagadougou, while the…

The Filipino Church will continue to stand with the country’s tribal communities who are victims of abuse, persecution, and extrajudicial killings, according to Manila’s auxiliary bishop Broderick Pabillo. Dr Pabillo had been asked to “actively intervene to end the militarisation of the areas where the tribal communities live”, and for the Church to facilitate the…

The Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo has described the exodus of Christians from the Middle East as apparently “apocalyptic and fatal”. Insisting that he remains confident because of his trust in God’s promises, Metropolitan Jean-Clément Jeanbart described the “exodus of Christians” as “a form of deportation, condemning our faithful to a humiliating exile and our 2000-year-old…

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, has been dropped from a criminal investigation. An Italian investigating judge has ruled that the Vatican’s lead organiser of Philadelphia’s World Meeting of Families had been “completely un-involved” in a scheme to buy and then profit from the sale of a 14th-century Italian castle.…

An ecumenical pilgrimage of Catholics, Anglicans, and other Christians by the border between North and South Korea has prayed for peace and reconciliation on the divided peninsula. The pilgrimage, organised by the Taizé Community, celebrated vespers at Paju’s Church of Repentance and Atonement near Panmunjeom, the village on the 38th parallel where the 1953 Korean…