Northern politicians need to fight for a Brexit that suits the people of the North, Derry’s Bishop Donal McKeown has said. “For the sake of peace on the island, as well as for the sake of economic development on the island, we need to have those who are elected in some sort of a process…
The Notebook It’s often noted that St John Paul II canonised more saints than all of his predecessors combined, but too often forgotten is that on the February day five years ago when he announced his resignation, Pope Benedict XVI authorised the canonisation of more saints than his Polish predecessor had ever done. The…
There’s been a lot of debate in English Catholic journalism over the last week or two about a Cambridge lecture by Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich. The lecture itself, ‘Pope Francis’ revolution of mercy: Amoris Laetitia as a new paradigm of Catholicism’, conducted under the auspices of the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry, can…
The Church must do everything possible to support women facing crisis pregnancies, the new Bishop of Galway has said. Dr Brendan Kelly told The Irish Catholic that Church and society need to “support them in every way that we possibly can if there’s a child on the way” pointing out that people must be unafraid…
The Irish doctor on the Lourdes International Medical Committee has said it was “truly amazing” to be present when the shrine’s 70th formally-recognised miraculous cure was announced. Sr Bernadette Moriau of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus began suffering from sciatic nerve pain in 1966 at the age of 27, and over…
The Divine Mercy Conference is about bringing God’s mercy to the world, writes Greg Daly “Divine Mercy has been top of the agenda for the last three Popes,” says Don Devaney, organiser of the Divine Mercy Conference that will see thousands gather in Dublin’s RDS this weekend. “They recognised that God’s mercy is for…
Doctors’ attitudes to the debate around the Eighth Amendment are unclear, with socially conservative doctors being unlikely to be outspoken on the issue, a leading member of the Irish Medical Council has said. “It is very difficult to know where GPs stand on the ‘Repeal the Eighth’ debate,” Drogheda-based GP Dr Ruairi Hanley told The…
Could the Church consider blessings for some same-sex unions, asks Greg Daly “Cardinal Marx endorses blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples,” declared America’s Catholic News Agency (CNA) earlier this month, with a host of other Catholic news sites taking a similar line and with predictable fits of the vapours across the Catholic internet. Interviewed by…
The basic Christian task is to help people live fully, Bishop Brendan Kelly tells Greg Daly Few issues are as pressing or more commonly raised in discussions about the state and future of the Church in Ireland than declining numbers of clergy, with the Association of Catholic Priests’ claim that the Irish Church is…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly details how various Popes have been linked with Lourdes from the 1850s to today In an 1873 letter to Blessed Pope Pius IX, St Bernadette, then Sr Marie Bernard, recalled how Our Lady had appeared to her just four years after the declaration of the doctrine of…