Dear Editor, Brendan Butler congratulates Sarah Mullaly on her appointment as the first female supreme head of the Anglican Communion and goes on to refer to “women (in the Catholic Church) excluded not only from being ordained and forbidden from reading the Gospel at Mass.” This he claims “is an injustice against Catholic women and…
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Belfast church cheers to All Saints in unique costume party
Parishioners of St Colmcilles Church in East Belfast are invited to join a unique All Saints celebration this Friday, October 31. The event, which is open to young people aged over 18, will have a ‘saint-themed cocktail bar’. PP Fr Conor McGrath, said they will also have a family friendly event for the children on…
Prospect of AI-generated pornography is “predatory”– Senator Mullen
Senator Rónán Mullen has condemned the “predatory” practices of AI companies, following the announcement last week that ChatGPT will soon allow users to create artificially generated pornography. OpenAI boss Sam Altman posted on X last week that the company had initially made ChatGPT “pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health…
CONNECT 7 inspires young adults to discover God’s plan for their lives
Last Saturday, over 120 young adults gathered at the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork for CONNECT 7, an event organised by the Diocese of Cork and Ross. CONNECT has become a much-anticipated occasion for young adults across the diocese to come together, combining faith, friendship and fun. The theme for this…
Humphreys is safe, Connolly is not
Dear Editor, Catherine Connolly views seem to subvert the very constitution that the President is elected to protect. She wants a third legal gender to have equal status with male and female! Our laws are based on biology – male and female. He created them, but all our laws will have to change accordingly if…
An Post honours Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty with centenary stamp
An Post will issue a new commemorative stamp next week marking the centenary of the ordination of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands of lives during the Second World War. From 1942, while serving in the Vatican, Msgr O’Flaherty organised an underground network known as ‘The Organisation’ which helped more than 6,500…
Dublin moves forward on Pro-Cathedral
Dublin Diocese has applied for planning permission for a major renovation of the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin’s City Centre. The planning application lodged as “Applicant – St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Parish C/O Schools & Parishes of Diocese of Dublin (RC) Pro-Cathedral House, 83 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1” requests planning for development of the Church, which is a…
Nobel Peace Prize winner is a Venezuelan Catholic woman
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 10 and was praised for keeping “the flame of democracy burning amid growing darkness.” Born in Caracas to a wealthy family, Machado co-founded the civil organisation Súmate in 2002 to promote transparency. Her family’s steel business was expropriated in 2010, before she…
APOLOGY TO MARIA STEEN
On 9 October 2025, The Irish Catholic published an article which purported to quote Maria Steen and to summarise her views as contained in an opinion piece published under her name on the same date. The Irish Catholic accepts that its article misrepresented Mrs Steen’s views and inadvertently falsely attributed remarks to her that she…
Longtime promoter of The Irish Catholic passes away
We would like to thank the late Mary Noone for her long service to The Irish Catholic, in which she took care of the account and distribution of papers within the Whitehall parish during her time as a member of the Legion of Mary praesidium. Ms Noone died in early September, and was involved in…