Bishop Denis Nulty has urged parishes to highlight the importance of farm safety following a huge increase in fatal farming accidents this year. The Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin told The Irish Catholic that farm safety was “critical in my opinion”, with 13 farm accidents so far in the first six months of this year,…

81st annual celebration

Cooking for a cause

A movement for marriage spirituality is celebrating its 50th anniversary with members from all over the world coming to Ireland in August. Équipes Notre Dame – Teams of Our Lady was founded in Paris in 1939 by Fr Henri Caffarel. He was approached by a number of couples looking to add some spirituality into their…

Australia’s Cardinal George Pell will chair the Fota VII International Liturgy Conference in Cork city this weekend. Hosted by St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy, the conference from July 5-7 will focus on priestly identity, and will hear papers delivered by a number of speakers including Bishop Philip Boyce of Raphoe and American prelate, Cardinal…

Annual national pilgrimage on Sunday, July 27

7th annual celebration

The gates of a Catholic church in Co. Antrim have been returned to their original colour after being painted red, white and blue over the weekend. The kerb in front of the Church of our Lady and John the Evangelists in the village of Dervock remains painted, but it has been reported that the gates…

“The behaviour in the video was a desecration of the church”

Mother Magdalen of the Sacred Heart on road to sainthood