Personal Profile Michelle Ward’s faith wasn’t always as strong as it is now, but God has always spoken to her through the relationships in her life. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Mrs Ward says that she grew up with a mother who was very strong in her faith, and it was how this faith…
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin and Apostolic Administrator of Ossory Diocese Denis Nulty recently presided over the deposition of relics in the sanctuary at St Mary’s Cathedral in Kilkenny. A new altar is currently being installed in the cathedral, with work due to be completed in March. The relics of St Oliver Plunkett, Nano Nagle…
Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan in July, the Vatican announced on Thursday. The Holy See press office said March 3 that the Pope would visit the African nations July 2-7, “at the invitation of their respective heads of state and bishops”. He will spend July 2-5 in the…
The Ukrainian Catholic parish in Ireland has seen husbands, fathers and sons return to Ukraine in an attempt to defend their homeland a member of the parish has told The Irish Catholic newspaper. Pure in Heart manager from Ukraine Helen Vysotska told this paper that a number of people have returned to Ukraine to defend…
Willpower is a major fuel in the spiritual life, and it will come in handy during Lent, writes Jason Osborne Lent has begun, and our spiritual resolutions are hopefully made. As discussed last week in this column, Lent is the perfect opportunity to refocus on the goal of life: God. Unfortunately for us, however, it’s…
Religious care homes are to be considered for HIQA regulation as part of a review of the nursing home regulatory models. Following questions from Kerry TDs Brendan Griffin and Michael Healy-Rae regarding HIQA regulation for “certain communities” and “care homes”, Minister for Mental Health and Older People Mary Butler said she will ask her officials…
Dr Anca Sincan tells of the women who kept Romania’s clandestine Greek Catholic Church going under communist repression, writes Jason Osborne Catholics have never been under any illusion about persecution as part and parcel of the Faith, but World War II and the surge of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe in the mid-20th Century…
Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said during a recent Oxford Union debate that private religion is “primarily a religion of sentiment” and quoted St Cardinal John Henry Newman that “we must of necessity ignore it”. Opposing the motion February 17 “This House would move beyond organised religion,” Archbishop Martin said that once the aspects of…
Hollywood legend Mickey Rourke is set to feature in Man of God, an upcoming movie about wonder-working eastern saint, St Nektarios of Aegina. The movie is currently being filmed in Greece and is to be released later this year. Mr Rourke has taken on the role of a paralysed man who was healed in hospital…
The soaring cost of living is pushing a home and a family out of reach for many young couples, writes Jason Osborne Ireland’s soaring cost of living has been at the centre of the nation’s attention for the past few weeks now, with the Government seeing fit to unveil a €300 million support package in…