Just €1 a day throughout Lent could make a huge difference in the lives of orphaned and abandoned children on the Thai-Burma border, according to a new charity appeal. Thai Children’s Trust Ireland, which supports disadvantaged and disabled children in Thailand and surrounding countries, has launched the Lenten campaign ‘Feed a Future’ to provide a…

Rev. Dr Heather Morris, former president of the Methodist Church in Ireland, will give the keynote address in a special day of Christian unity on Lough Derg on Ash Wednesday, February 18. One of Ireland’s oldest living places of pilgrimage is inviting pilgrims and interfaith groups from across the Christian Churches to gather in faith…

Archbishop Eamon Martin said renewal of faith in Ireland will be “nourished” by religious congregations

Lay faith-based missionary groups are coming together to form a new representative body, to pool resources and lobby for the needs of lay missionaries at home and abroad. Lay Mission Union Ireland (LMUI) is still in the planning stages, but the origins of the new body dates back to a meeting in 2013, when lay…

School buildings, convents, vestries, playing fields and associated lands across Ireland were handed over

Papal nuncio leads weekend celebrations in Co. Longford parish

To open the celebrations at the announcement of Fr John Sullivan SJ being made venerable, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will celebrate a Mass in thanksgiving for his life and in prayer for his canonisation in St Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin on Saturday, February 21 at 11am. There will be a blessing with the crucifix of…

Bishop William Crean has announced the Diocese of Cloyne is holding a Lenten series of prayer in central locations across the diocese. Each evening will last for one hour with time afterwards for refreshments and chat. Talks start at 8pm in Holy Family Hall, Youghal on Mondays, February 23, March 2 and March 9; in…

It was with much sorrow that the National Eucharistic Adoration Committee said goodbye to one of their apostles, Mike Kumar, who died peacefully in December as the Chaplet of Divine Mercy was completed at his bedside. Mike was a Hindu from India and converted to Catholicism 12 years ago. He was passionate about the promotion…