Last week the Jesuits in Ireland brought 65 young people from around the world to Ireland to enrich their faith and work in justice and ecology projects. Divided into four groups, the young people painted a homeless shelter in Dublin, worked on an ecology project in Wicklow and went on pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick and…

The International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medico Social Assistants [CICIAMS] XIX World Congress will take place at All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 from September 23-26. It is being hosted by the Catholic Nurses Guild of Ireland. Established since 1933, CICIAMS consists of associations of nurses and midwives and associate members whose membership is…

Pilgrims respond to a need for the extraordinary

Fr Patrick Devine SMA, a missionary priest originally from Co. Roscommon and based in Kenya, described his work in conflict resolution and reconciliation to the Knock Novena on Monday. Fr Devine has spent over 20 years in Eastern Africa and he set up the Shalom Centre for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation in 2009. It uses…

New challenge inspired by Pope Francis

A movement for marriage spirituality celebrating the 50th anniversary of its arrival in Ireland, saw members from all over the world attend a conference in Dublin last weekend. Teams of Our Lady (Équipes Notre Dame) was founded in Paris in 1939 by Fr Henri Caffarel, when he was approached by a number of couples looking…

Pope’s two-great nephews and their mother killed in a car crash in Argentina.

An Irish nun working in an area ravaged by the deadly Ebola virus has spoken of people’s fears as the death toll rises. The Ebola outbreak has spread across West Africa to Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, claiming 1,000 lives. Authorities have struggled to contain the virus, which is contracted by personal contact, and…

“We are facing risk of a real genocide and a human catastrophe.”