A new training course on synodality will open on October 26, organised by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre of the Sophia University Institute, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod. The 2026-2027 course will begin with a free online webinar entitled ‘Toward a New Humanism: A Synodal Way of Life’. The webinar is open…
“There is no single stereotype of an ideal family or indeed ideal couple,” said Bishop Denis Nulty in his homily delivered to new Accord marriage facilitators and marriage counsellors on October 10. “You will work with couples and indeed families. There is no single stereotype of an ideal family or indeed ideal couple – no…
Mission Sunday is an opportunity to “show the amazing amount of impact and work that our congregations continue to undertake in exceptionally increasingly difficult circumstances,” said Misean Cara CEO John Moffett to The Irish Catholic, speaking on behalf of the non-profit, which works with 77 member organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. The goal…
The Villaregia Missionary Community has established a new presence in Ghinnir, in Ethiopia’s East Bale, seeking to reach communities where the Catholic Church has a limited presence. According to a report on September 29 by Agenzia Fides, the Villaregia Missionary Community has been visiting communities in East Bale where they have been raising awareness about…
Pope Leo XIV sent a condolence message to Holy Family Parish in Gaza after an Israeli missile strike killed five people, including Christian mother Maysa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud and her daughter, Mary Hafez Michel Najjar, Fr Gabriel Romanelli said in an October 4 video update. Reading the pope’s note, Fr Romanelli said Pope Leo…
Ten years after Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Catholic Church with his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Pope Leo XIV is inviting church leaders to Rome next week to understand how Francis’s document has been implemented. Vatican officials last week stressed that Francis’s 2016 text Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) …
Many of the far-right’s views on Christian teaching and the place and role of Christian faith in public life are not an “authentic expression of Christianity,” Pope Leo XIV said last week. The pontiff was answering a question from Ludwig Ring-Eifel of KNA, a major German Catholic newspaper, during the in-flight press conference en route…
Scotland’s Catholic bishops are responding to a renewed political effort to decriminalise abortion in their country, condemning a Green Party push to treat abortion as “health care” and calling on legislators to invest in measures that actually protect and support mothers. Last week, the Green Party called on the current Scottish government to act on…
At the ‘Living Magnifica Humanitas’ conference in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Archbishop Eamon Martin asked the conference participants in his opening address to keep in mind the question, “Who has the power to call the current conversation about AI, and whose voice is missing from the room?” Archbishop Martin referenced Magnifica Humanitas’ emphasis on interdisciplinary…
Young people actively participating in the Church “have that zeal in them,” said young Belfast legionary Nathan Magill to The Irish Catholic. Speaking at the Legion of Mary headquarters in Dublin upon the arrival of St Thérèse’s relics to Morning Star Avenue last weekend, Mr Magill and fellow legionary Sr Jasmine Cano, both in their…