Hundreds of pro-life advocates gathered at the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, for the Pro Life Campaign National Conference 2026 on Saturday, October 17. The event offered a space for discussions, workshops and talks. Addressing the present, Pro Life Campaign’s Eilís Mulroy said the Oireachtas Health Committee, “tasked with scrutinising Sinn Féin’s bill to abolish the three-day…
Irish Archbishop Paul Tighe has warned against treating artificial intelligence as inevitable, saying people must be actively involved in shaping how the technology develops. Speaking at a European discussion on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, Archbishop Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, said “there is nothing inevitable about AI”. He said the…
A Limerick Diocesan Synod will be held on March 13, 2027, Bishop Brendan Leahy has announced, as the diocese prepares for the next stages of the Irish Synodal Pathway. The announcement came at the Diocese of Limerick’s annual assembly, which brought together clergy, parish volunteers and ministry leaders from across 60 parishes to review the…
Marking Prisoner’s Sunday, October 11, Bishop Martin Hayes of Kilmore, who serves as the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference Liaison Bishop to the Irish Prison Service, brought attention to the living conditions of prisoners in Ireland. “While we must always keep in mind the victims of crime,” the bishop said in a statement, “[we] must be…
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawlowski, Titular Archbishop of Sejny, as the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. He has been serving as Apostolic Nuncio in Greece. Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawłowski was born on November 23, 1960, in Biskupiec (Archdiocese of Warmia), the eldest of four sons of Stanisław and Magdalena. In 1979, he…
Archbishop Eamon Martin has called on Catholics in Armagh to help “rebuild” the Church, setting out five missionary pathways for renewal. In his pastoral letter, ‘Go, Rebuild My Church’, the Archbishop said rebuilding could not simply mean creating new programmes or maintaining existing structures but must begin with a renewed encounter with Christ. He acknowledged…
The Secondary Schools education Trust (CEIST) held their annual conference in the Hodson Bay Hotel in Athlone on October 1 and 2, at which the Bishop of Clonfert, Galway and Kilmacduagh Michael Duignan celebrated the opening Mass. Speaking on the theme of the conference, ‘In their footsteps, leading with faith’, Bishop Duignan referred to Catholic…
A diocesan gathering of Alpha teams took place in Cork and Ross, with the aim to prepare teams to run the programme in local parishes. The Alpha programme, a 10 week series of sessions intended to explore the basics of the faith, evangelise and initiate parish renewal, is an opportunity to ask questions and develop…
Marking the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis, faithful gathered in Dublin to celebrate with a Triduum organised by the Capuchin Community on Church Street. The first evening, on October 1, took place in St Mary of the Angels Church Street with ‘The Canticle of the Creatures’. On the first evening, Orazio Schillaci,…
The Bishop of Down and Connor has paid tribute to the men and women who built St Michael the Archangel Parish in West Belfast during the “darkest days” of the Troubles. Speaking at the Golden Jubilee Mass on Saturday evening, Bishop Alan McGuckian said the parish church still bears “visible signs” of the decades-long conflict,…