The new CEO of Trócaire Seán Farrell along with Bishop Paul Dempsey of the Dublin Archdiocese and Dr Gary Carville, Social Issues & International Affairs at Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference will visit Israel and Palestine this weekend as the Irish delegation attending the Holy Land Coordination meetings. The 2026 Holy Land Coordination will take place…
The Education Nation podcast launches on Monday, January 18 when the first episode drops to coincide with Catholic Schools week. We have lined up a host of fascinating guests who have intriguing stories to tell about their own career journeys and their role within the education system. As we hear their stories, we hope that…
The Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, has said that “the days of the Catholic Church seeking to kind of dominate debate they’re over,” while insisting that churches and faith groups still have an important role to play in public life and in supporting the State on major policy issues. Speaking with this paper, Archbishop Martin…
The Bishop of Meath Dr Tom Deenihan has made a robust defence of Catholic education, praising those who work in the sector and rejecting those who argue Catholic schools are places of indoctrination. “A Catholic school, if it were to be biased at all, would share the bias of Christ; the weak, the poor, the…
The Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, has said preparations for a diocesan congress have revealed a level of interest among young people that has been both encouraging and uplifting, challenging assumptions about disengagement from faith and church life. Speaking about the process of organising the Armagh diocesan congress, Archbishop Martin said deliberate efforts were made…
When Pope Leo XIV sits down with the world’s cardinals this week for a two-day extraordinary consistory, the agenda may sound technical. In reality, it touches the nerve endings of the post-Francis Church. Governance, synodality and what the pope has called “liturgical peace” are not abstract themes. They are fault lines, unresolved tensions and open…
Archbishop Eamon Martin has said he’s not overly concerned that Catholic Emancipation commemorations don’t feature in the Irish Government’s programme for government. Speaking to this paper he said “I wouldn’t be too worried about seeing it in the program for government, I would like to do and we’re already having some conversations about this at…
The Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan has said that he is cautiously optimistic that the diocese is seeing a ‘turn’ in the vocations tide. “I think that the recent upturn, and we must be cautious here, in those entering Propaedeutic years, seminary or just enquiring, has been well reported and is very welcome. There are,…
Halfway through a sit-down interview with the Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin, there’s a knock on door and he excuses himself to go answer it. It’s a dark winter’s evening, it could be anyone. It turns out someone found a lost kitten. It was just one little thing on a spectrum of things that…
The Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan has said that one of his hopes for 2026 is that Irish people will become less angry. Speaking to The Irish Catholic the bishop said, “I hope people become less angry in 2026! It might seem like a strange hope but there is too much anger in society. We…