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…
Shortly after the publication of Misean Cara’s 2025 Impact Report, the organisation’s CEO sat down with The Irish Catholic to discuss the previous year’s highlights and demands, the challenges caused by reductions in global aid budgets, and what the future of Misean Cara’s international development in the global South will look like. Providing context for…
Bishop of Achonry and Elphin Kevin Doran welcomed the news that RTÉ One will broadcast a feature documentary Heart of a Servant – Father Flanagan story on July 6, citing the documentary as an “excellent production focusing on a very important personality in our recent faith history.” Born in Bishop Doran’s own diocese, Boys Town…
Pastoral development worker Frances Rowland on responding to the changing needs of her diocese In conversation with The Irish Catholic, pastoral development worker Frances Rowland shared stories of collegiality, openness, and formation from the Diocese of Kerry, highlighting the changing needs of parish life in the diocese she has worked in for over 20…
The role of the university in the fight for magnificence of humanity is “absolutely to be recovered,” said Bishop Paul Tighe of the Dicastery for Culture and Education during a June 17 panel on Pope Leo’s recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. Speaking during the panel with Dr Linda Doyle, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, and Loyola…