On a sunny day in September, the town of Kells, Co. Meath welcomed a new health clinic, providing life-affirming fertility care and female health education for young women. Present at the official opening were local priests, representatives from Catholic Mothers Ireland, Health Professionals for Life, local GPs and pharmacists, and family and friends. Co-owner of…
Legion of Mary founder Frank Duff and St Thérèse of Lisieux both carried God to “the less obvious people” and shared a “real love for souls”, according to the organiser of this week’s visit of the saint’s relics to the Legion’s Dublin headquarters. The relics will be at Morning Star Avenue this Friday and Saturday,…
Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin and other Church leaders are offering prayers to communities closely affected by the Lough Neagh pollution and ecological crisis, “including farming and fishing communities, local businesses and families.” In a statement published after the Church leaders’ visit to Cranfield, on the shore of Lough Neagh in Co. Down, the Church…
Archbishop Eamon Martin has issued a joint statement with Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh John McDowell on the situation in Drumcree, calling on Christians in Northern Ireland to think about how they can be good neighbours to each other. “We cannot think of any time in the last thirty years when this simple message…
Bishop of Down and Connor Alan McGuckian has appealed to Belfast City Hall to remain a civic space that should “unite rather than divide” in a letter to all 60 members of Belfast City Council. The letter, written personally by Bishop McGuckian, comes ahead of the decision by the City Council to illuminate City Hall…
A senior Vatican figure has said there needs to be global cooperation on artificial intelligence and expressed concern that some states want to “go it alone” with the technology. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State, was speaking on September 16 after an event in the Italian parliament called ‘Faith and Reason in…
Cameroon is experiencing a surge in frequently deadly violence against women, with eight women reported killed over a ten-day span last month and no fewer than 72 women slain in the country between January 1 and April 4 this year in the central African country of 31 million. The outspoken Bishop John Berinyuy Tatah, auxiliary…
Pakistani security forces ended a standoff with militants holed up inside a police compound in the northwestern part of the country on Saturday. The standoff began Friday after a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into the complex in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the country’s border with Afghanistan. Gunmen followed the vehicle,…
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori this week praised an assembly of women religious major superiors for their witness of “evangelical poverty,” with the prelate noting the outsized influence that women religious have had on American society over the past 250 years. “You and those who came before you have taught our children, tended to the sick,…
Pope Leo XIV called for international solidarity with Somalia, where ongoing violence and extreme weather are making an already severe humanitarian crisis even worse. “With great concern,” the pontiff said Sunday, “I am following the humanitarian crisis unfolding in certain areas of Somalia.” “[A]cts of violence and extreme weather events are exacerbating the already precarious…