As papal charity Aid to the Church in Need publish their Religious Freedom in the World Report showing that one in ten Christians in the world faces persecution for their faith, the Irishwoman who heads the global charity Regina Lynch takes time out to speak with The Irish Catholic”s Garry O’Sullivan about the work of…
Breaking News On the Feast of St Lawrence O’Toole, the patron saint of the Dublin Archdiocese and the 200th anniversary of the building of the Pro-Cathedral, Pope Leo XIV has granted the city church the status of a full Cathedral. The announcement, which has been a closely guarded secret except to this paper, was announced…
“Parents, who value their current school ethos, should be sure to fill-in this short survey. Otherwise, the choice of future school provision will be made for them” Archbishop Eamon Martin has said. He was responding to a survey launched by the Department of Education and Youth which is seeking views from parents on the kind…
Seven sets of human remains that likely belong to infants were discovered at the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam, Co. Galway according to the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, ODAIT. Other adult human remains had been founded earlier in the excavations. However ODAIT has been unable to date…
The United Nations has disgraced themselves again” a leading Irish psychotherapist has told The Irish Catholic in the wake of a UN report advocating boys and girls share shower facilities. Dr Stella O’Malley told this paper that “No serious organisation tells schools that boys should share facilities such as showers and residential spaces with girls.…
Seven sets of human remains that likely belong to infants have been discovered at the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam, Co. Galway, according to the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, ODAIT. In an update released this morning, November 7, the report states: “forensic experts also confirmed that seven…
Bishop Tom Deenihan of Meath- Ireland’s third largest diocese- has issued a wide-ranging pastoral letter, Future of Our Parishes: Communities of Belonging and Evangelisation, calling for renewed vitality and cooperation among parishes as they face demographic change, fewer priests, and the need for deeper evangelisation. He also reassures parishes that closures or mergers are not being…
Twenty Dublin priests and the Archbishop prayed for peace in the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Nagasaki, Japan on November 4. In his homily the Archbishop Dermot Farrell said “One cannot come to this place, this Cathedral, and the church of which it is the centre, without thinking of the horrific suffering that was inflicted on the…
It was early in the morning, when Sister Stanislaus Kennedy — Sr Stan to the nation — was called home. Also early that same morning, Louise Bayliss of the Society of St Vincent de Paul spoke on national radio about the hardship gripping single-parent families as winter closes in. She described how energy poverty is…
Baroness Nuala O’Loan has said that the Catholic Church leadership can do more to promote the work of justice across the island. Speaking to The Irish Catholic she said “a lot more can be done to encourage Catholics into policing, the aim of which is to protect people and property from harm, something which is…