Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin Diocese likened tackling the pandemic to the “Battle of Britain” and questioned if Irish pharmaceutical companies could make use of production facilities to stimulate vaccine production. Bishop Doran said that ”every expert here is saying that all of this depends on the availability of supply” and that production could be…
Personal Profile For those outside the Faith, the idea that confession may draw you into Catholicism will seem counter intuitive – let alone that it can be joyful or freeing. But that’s just what it was for Anita Sheahan, who now does faith outreach for St Mary’s Dominicans in Cork. Though she grew up in…
Praying with Scripture is not meant to be a mindless repetition of biblical quotes but instead is a gift that is meant to be accepted in people’s hearts, Pope Francis said.
The Archbishop of Armagh said he is “truly sorry” and asked for the forgiveness of survivors following the publication of the research report on Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, 26 January
The Government has “seen reason” and deferred a controversial levy on candles – which had been called “sneaky” and described as “a tax on prayer” – until at least 2022. The Department of Finance had proposed to withdraw a VAT exemption on the white candles used as votive lamps – a huge source of comfort…
The temptation to put respectability ahead of faith is the death knell for any authentic religion, writes Ruadhán Jones As a young Irish Catholic, it’s impossible not to know of the mother and baby homes, but reading the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was still difficult. Ireland, during…
Governments in Asia and Africa have used an “epidemiological cover” to conceal “a quiet humanitarian catastrophe”, Aid to a Church in Need has said. “Regimes which are hostile to the presence of Christians within their lands have used Covid-19 as cover for attacks and for using their proxies to either eliminate or exploit Christian communities,”…
Seamus Mulconry, born in a Mother and Baby Home, tells Ruadhán Jones that we need to acknowledge our own societal failings Seamus Mulconry is the general secretary of the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association and remains a staunch defender of Catholic schools. He is also one of the thousands of children that passed through the…
Personal Profile A generation of philosophers, sociologists, and public intellectuals wrote off religion, declaring that we were moving into a secular age where faith would be redundant. But as Dr Michael Kirwan SJ, new director of the Loyola Institute in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), points out, this hasn’t happened. In fact, Dr Kirwan explains, many…
Unity requires prayer, love and fighting the devil, who always sows division, Pope Francis said.