Catholics in Dublin and Cork took part in ‘praying in the sea’ events in solidarity with people suffering from the impacts of climate change. Members of seven Dublin Christian churches took part in an inter-church prayer event organised by Eco-Congregation Ireland (ECI) on Killiney Beach, Co. Dublin, while Sisters of Mercy from Pairc a Tobair were…
Mags Gargan
Kerry parish celebrates 150 years
Kenmare parish is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Holy Cross church with a programme of events running to November. The celebrations began last Friday with the launch of the book Holy Cross Church Kenmare 150 (1864 – 2014), A Social and Local History by Canon Tom Looney. The festivities continue this month with a parish…
Dublin sends 2,000 pilgrims to Lourdes
Nurses Tara Curran, Ann Breen, Alice Griffin, Erica Keogan and Helen Dunnebarron preparing to leave Dublin airport on Sunday morning on a diocesan pilgrimage which saw seven specially chartered flights carrying 2,000 pilgrims to Lourdes. Photo: John McElroy
Archbishop Sheen’s sainthood cause suspended indefinitely
The Sheen Cause will be relegated to the congregation’s historic archive
Three Italian missionaries killed in Burundi
The sisters may have been victims of an armed robbery
Diocese asks US Supreme Court to hear case involving confessional seal
The Diocese of Baton Rouge has asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a Louisiana Supreme Court decision that a priest may be compelled to testify as to what he heard in the confessional in 2008 concerning an abuse case. The legal step is the latest in a case involving Fr Jeffrey Bayhi, pastor of…
Drifting from Church teaching
Dear Editor, I read with shock – but hardly surprise – your front page article ‘Bishop demands answers from SVP on gay donation’ (IC 04/09/2014). It is further evidence of a pattern in Ireland that has seen Catholic organisations drift far away from Church teaching. No-one can object to the Society of St Vincent de…
Christians forced to flee from Boko Haram – local Church sources
The bishop says that at least 90,000 Catholics are displaced
New retirement house for missionary sisters
“Irish missionaries have made a tremendous contribution to the image of Ireland around the world,” said former Taoiseach John Bruton, performing the opening ceremony of Shanahan House, the new retirement home for the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary. The building in Artane, Dublin was erected to meet an urgent accommodation need and is where the sisters come…
Another clerical layer keeps women out
Dear Editor, Fair play to the women of the Killaloe diocese who are standing up in opposition to the permanent diaconate. (Diaconate sparks discrimination row in Killaloe’, IC 4/9/2014). The International Theological Commission in Rome under the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger left the question of female deacons open, yet the Church in Ireland – having ignored…