Irish missionaries who supported St Oscar Romero during his time as Archbishop of San Salvador have welcomed the martyred bishop’s canonisation, feeling their constant support for him has been vindicated. “The feeling among the people is of quiet pride and satisfaction,” Fr Ciaran Ó Nuanain told The Irish Catholic. “The minority of us who supported…
Documents released by the State’s ethics watchdog have shown that a group that campaigned for reduced religious influence in Church-owned schools was a campaigning organisation that received funds far in excess of amounts permitted for such groups. A complaint submitted to the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) about Equate: Equality in Education, days ahead…
Born in west Clare, one of eight children, Spiritan priest Fr Martin Kelly CSSp has been national director of World Missions Ireland since January, and seems well qualified for it with over two dozen years on the missions in Ethiopia under his belt. “Over 40 years I was there for 28 years, one batch of…
Recent days have seen some bizarre reports in Irish media about a campaign group which shut down last year following complaints to the State’s ethics watchdog that it was being illegally bankrolled to the tune of over €400,000. Irish electoral law bars organisations engaged in political campaigning from receiving over €2,500 from any one donor…
Fr Patrick Flynn may not have known what a Capuchin even was when, aged 12, he and his classmates were asked in 1955 if they’d like to sing in the choir at St Mary of the Angels Church on Dublin’s Church Street, but nowadays his knowledge of the order and of the Irish province’s missionary…
If the success or otherwise of missionary activity can be judged by whether missionaries are able to raise up people to take their place, Ireland’s Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, generally known as the OLA Sisters, can be very proud of what they have done. Sr Janet Nutakor OLA, currently working with the…
“The Catholic Church is facing its most serious crisis in 500 years.” So, at any rate, claims Villanova University’s Prof. Massimo Faggioli in an article for the prestigious Foreign Affairs magazine entitled ‘The Catholic Church’s biggest crisis since the Reformation’. In an unusual move, the article can be read at foreignaffairs.com without registration, which at…
Greg Daly and Luke Silke Brave Emma Mhic Mhathúna [pictured] got “tremendous strength” from her “deep faith” after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, her parish priest has said. The 37-year-old mother of five died on Sunday after being told in May that she had terminal cancer, a 2013 smear test having been misread. She was one of 221…
The Government must use the European Union to apply moral pressure to Pakistan if Christians are to be protected in the country, a leading religious freedom campaigner has said. The comments from Michael Kinsella of Aid to the Church in Need come against the background of Pakistan’s Supreme Court having reached a verdict in the…
The protection of life was a key theme in the more than 50 countries where the rosary was prayed by a ‘Holy League of Nations’ on Sunday, October 7, one of the event’s organisers has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, former MEP Kathy Sinnott said that “every one of the countries was free to…