During a hot and sunny week in June, Clongowes Wood College in Co. Kildare was packed with energy, friendship and prayer for Camp Veritas’ week-long Irish summer camp experience. Accompanied by founders Ryan and Elizabeth Young and 100 volunteers, the 150 campers enjoyed sports, crafts, and activities along with robust catechetical sessions and daily Adoration.…
The Archbishop of Rabat, a Spanish cardinal, said on July 7 that he would be stepping back from public ministry while a Church investigation takes place into allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards adult women. Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, 74, and a member of the Salesian order, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Tuesday that he would…
A series of attacks against persons, acts of vandalism, and intimidation targeting the Christian minority across the eastern Indian state of West Bengal in the past week has sparked widespread concern. Church leaders and community representatives are urging state authorities to ensure protection for vulnerable communities and guarantee impartial investigations into the incidents. The incidents…
A coalition of over 170 Christian organisations across the EU have outlined four asks for the Irish and European governments, urging them to demonstrate climate leadership and value care for creation over competitiveness. Speaking shortly after the recent meeting of the Taoiseach with the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) and…
Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor has resigned, as announced by Pope Leo XIV on July 11, and bishops around the country have expressed their gratitude for the nuncio’s involvement and support since his appointment in February 2023. The Bishops of the Tuam Ecclesiastical province, including Archbishop Francis Duffy, Bishop Kevin Doran, and…
“From a vocations perspective, I was heartened by the desire that is in the hearts of young people”, said keynote speaker and Down and Connor vocations director Fr Conor McGrath about the ‘Made for More’ youth conference which took place at Whitefriar Street Church on July 12. In his talk during the conference, Fr McGrath…
Laypeople in ministry groups and parish offices can help combat uncertainty amid summer clerical changes, said Fr Padraig Walsh to The Irish Catholic shortly after the Diocese of Kerry announced diocesan appointments to take effect on July 15. Fr Walsh, who will leave the Parish of Our Lady and St Brendan’s Tralee to become Parish…
Speaking ahead of Belfast’s Rally for Life on July 4, Bishop Kevin Doran urged his audience to think of pregnancy as a gift and privilege rather than a burden, and called for communities to work together to support mothers. “We need to be promoting new ways of thinking and speaking about pregnancy, not as a…
Sunday, July 12 will mark the last Mass at St Augustine’s Church in Cork and the withdrawal of the Augustian Order from the city. The decision to withdraw comes as the order sees declining vocations, with a lack of ordinations to fill the ministry needs of the order amid the aging profile of the current…
150 teens and 100 volunteers from Ireland and beyond gathered for a week of catechesis and prayer at Clongowes Wood College SJ in Co. Kildare last week to take part in Camp Veritas, a Catholic summer camp experience founded by Ryan and Elizabeth Young. The American couple runs five summer camps each year, four in…