Many parishioners in rural Ireland are living in fear of being victims of crime in their own homes, priests have told The Irish Catholic. Concern has been heightened after a recent attack on Co. Sligo pensioner Tom Niland provoked shock and anger across the country. Gardaí say that Mr Niland, 73, was attacked and robbed…
Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol are challenging the Good Friday Agreement, prominent historian Dr Eamon Phoenix has said. This comes following Paul Givan’s resignation as Stormont First Minister as part of the DUP’s escalating protest strategy against Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Dr Phoenix said power sharing “is very prone…
Valentine’s Day has lost much meaning over the years, but finding the saint behind the name should reinvigorate it for Catholics, writes Jason Osborne Unfortunately, like with so many holidays these days, St Valentine’s Day has lost much of its reason for being. It’s now understood by many to be a day of token gestures and…
Catholic youth group Youth 2000 is “delighted and really excited” to be welcoming young Catholics back to their first major in-person event since March 2020, National Administrator for the group, Emma Maloney told this paper. Ms Maloney said the pandemic made it “very hard for single Catholics for the last two years to get out…
Catholics are exhorted to love the world, but more often we find ourselves suspicious of it or hostile towards it, writes Jason Osborne ‘Cold War’ is a phrase reappearing with greater frequency these days thanks to the simmering tensions between the West, namely the US and the majority of Europe, and Russia and its more…
The Ukrainian Catholic community in Ireland have been taking “enormous” solace in the concern shown by Irish people about the widely-reported threat Russia poses their country, Fr Vasyl Kornitsky, chaplain to the Ukrainian community has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr Kornitsky expressed gratitude for “how supportive, how caring the Irish community has been”. “Every…
The relentlessness of 24 hour news cycles has created a sense of panic among young people, psychotherapist and author of Fragile, Stella O’Malley has said. Ms O’Malley said this has been particularly acute in the reportage of the climate crisis, the Covid pandemic, and more recently the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. This comes following a major report…
With remote working likely here to stay for many, it’s important to carve out a suitable workspace for ourselves at home, writes Jason Osborne With the Cabinet signing off recently on proposed laws which will allow employees the right to request remote working, it’s likely far more people are going to continue to work from home…
The Society of the Divine Word (SVD) welcomed Saturday new Frs Clement Kwabena Narcher, Joseph Mensah and Liwei Huang, with Archbishop Farrell exhorting the men to go forward “so that the Gospel may reach the ends of the earth”. Speaking at the ordination in Mountview parish, Archbishop Farrell said the new Fathers have been “availing of…
Dr Vivian Boland OP’s latest offering is a reminder to a forgetful Church of its true nature, and the role God, Mary and all the saints play in it, writes Jason Osborne Nearly one hundred years ago, German theologian Karl Adam released what would become one of the most highly regarded and influential books on…