Fr Ted writer and pro-women campaigner Graham Linehan was arrested on Monday by fiver armed police officers as he stepped of a plane at Heathrow for sending three tweets. “In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak,…
The event was regarded as one of the leading gatherings in the field, featuring a distinguished line-up of theologians and church leaders. The congress took place in Dublin in part to mark the appointment of Professor Fáinche Ryan of the Loyola Institute as the incoming President of the European Society for Catholic Theology. Among the…
The Catholic Church has welcomed many kinds of popes in its long history — reformers, diplomats, visionaries, caretakers. With Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American successor of Peter, the Church appears to have received something rare: a shepherd intent on binding up wounds without tearing at old scars. His first hundred days offer every sign…
The news that St John Henry Newman is to be declared a Doctor of the Church has been greeted with joy. This has been expected for some time, having been requested by, among others, the Episcopal Conference of England & Wales, the Irish Episcopal Conference and the Bishops of the Church of England. Newman joins…
Fr John Murray who was savagely attacked hearing confessions in Downpatrick was recovering from illness after a stay in hospital and preparing to transfer from his parish having turned 75 – retirement age. In one of his final homilies as parish priest he encouraged the faithful to “Bring our anger to God, your frustrations. Bring…
While the Irish state has deliberately avoided any mention of the word ‘Catholic’ in it’s official communiques about Daniel O’Connell and has no plans in its Programme for Government to commemorate the anniversary of Catholic Emancipation in 2029 – probably the greatest success of O’Connell which won him the title ‘The Liberator’- the Taoiseach did…
The time has come for bishops to consult parish communities before a priest is moved, a leading priest commentator has said. Fr Martin Delaney writing in this week’s Irish Catholic says the consultation is all the more necessary if the priest being moved is not going to be replaced. Fr Martin asks: “Is it fair…
Irish Dominican nuns protest ‘indiscriminate destruction of innocent lives in Gaza’ The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has quoted Pope Leo XIV in his condemnation of the recent killing of civilians in Gaza. The Irish President in a statement this week said: “In his weekend statement on these issues, Pope Leo XIV has used…
Fr Edgard Rimaycuna, a 36-year-old priest from Chiclayo, Peru, has been appointed as the personal secretary to Pope Leo XIV. A former student of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome, Fr Rimaycuna studied there in 2017 as part of the priestly community of ongoing formation. During his time in Rome, he specialised in Scripture Studies…
Garry: I’m here this morning with Fr Joe Mullen, who is moderator and priest of Mount Merrion in Dublin. Have I got that correct, Joe? Fr Joe: Okay, so I have a partnership of three parishes. So I’m parish priest and moderator of Clonskeagh, which is the Church of the Miraculous Medal on Bird Avenue,…