In one of his last acts, Pope Francis conferred the Order of Saint Gregory the Great award on Martin and Carmel Naughton, the Association of Papal Orders in Ireland has announced. The formal conferral of the papal honours will take place in late August at a Mass and ceremony in Dublin by the Bishop of…
The Church must do more to promote Catholic weddings, says the Bishop of Kerry, after recent figures showed a further decline in the number of couples choosing to marry in a Catholic ceremony. Last weekend, Bishop Ray Browne noted that less than half of weddings in his diocese now take place in a church. The…
“There are more men enquiring about priesthood”, according to Bishop Phonsie Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore, who also serves as chair of the Council for Vocations of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. He was speaking ahead of the annual ‘Come and See’ inquiry-day for men discerning a vocation to the diocesan priesthood which will take…
The 19th edition of Ireland’s largest annual pro-life march, Rally for Life, will take place on July 5 in Dublin. The event organised by the Life Institute gathers thousands in the city centre each year. The route this year will finish at Custom House Quay. Beginning at Parnell Square at 2pm, the march will proceed…
US theologian Prof. Massimo Faggioli, who has recently been appointed professor at Trinity College, has warned against Donald Trump’s use of religious language and how it “trivialises wars as divine missions.” “With the religious language that is being used, the relevant doctrine of war is no longer the classic ‘just war’, but that of a…
Work has begun at the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home to try and dig up and identify the remains of the almost 800 infants who died there during its years of operation between 1925 and 1961. However, the dig has attracted criticism by some as unnecessary. In 2017, local historian, Catherine Corless, collated the…
The Spiritan congregation, which runs schools such as Blackrock College, has promised to speed up the payment of financial compensation to victims of abuse in their schools. So far, more than 350 past pupils who say they were sexually abused at the schools have come forward. The incidents mostly date back to the 1980s and…
Youth ministry must be active in every parish, according to the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Denis Nulty. Bishop Nulty made the comment after a meeting with youth leaders, to discuss ‘intentional youth ministry’. This followed a gathering organised last month by Bishop Fintan Gavin, when they discussed the role of youth in the Irish…
Pope Leo will above all be a bridge-builder, the author of the first book about the new pontiff published in Ireland has predicted. In Christ We Are One: Pope Leo XIV at the Service of Humanity is by Michael Kelly [pictured above], a well-known Vatican expert, former editor of The Irish Catholic and current Director of Public Affairs…
Irish bishops have called for the faithful to pray and fast for Gaza as parishioners voice their “horror and helplessness” witnessing the “destruction”. The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference’s standing committee has urged people to “pray for an outpouring of the compassion of God on a heartless world” throughout the month of June, following a meeting…