Pope Leo XIV has recognised the heroic virtues of Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, the founder of a US religious order devoted to person-to-person ministry, and declared her venerable, advancing her cause for canonisation. Mary Teresa Tallon was born May 6, 1867, in Hanover, New York, to Irish immigrants. At age 19, she joined the Holy…
Pope Leo XIV presided on June 18 over the funeral rites for Cardinal Camillo Ruini, remembering him as a servant of the Church who “knew how to guide the people of God.” The funeral liturgy took place at the Altar of the Chair in St Peter’s Basilica, two days after Ruini died late Tuesday, June…
Vice President JD Vance, appearing on ABC’s ‘The View’ to promote his newly released memoir on faith, was put on the spot from the first question, peppered for nearly an hour on Jeffrey Epstein, the economy, immigration and other issues facing the Trump administration. The appearance was notable because it marked a rare foray for…
‘In a world that is often disturbing, damaging and dehumanising we cannot fail young people’ Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Irish theologian Fr Eamonn Conway said that “The present moment in history is disturbing, damaging and dehumanising in many respects—but for that very reason the need and opportunity for a genuinely Catholic education have…
Trócaire has condemned the killing of Fr Youhanna Al-Amin PP of St Vincent’s Kauda Parish of Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of El Obeid, who was killed on Friday, June 19. A staff member of a Trócaire partner organisation was also killed during the attack, and another staff member is “seriously injured and is currently receiving medical…
A prayer room has been created and dedicated to St Carlos Acutis at Nano Nagle Special School in Listowel, Co. Kerry. Principal Jacinta Budhlaeir, parent Michaela Enright and school staff have helped create the room over the last few months. The area was blessed by Fr Brendan Walsh, PP Moyvane, with Holy Cross Tralee’s first-class…
The Bishop of Achonry and of Elphin has said that the bishops are disturbed by the many attempts by politicians to expand abortion by abolishing the mandatory three-day waiting period. “We find it quite disturbing that there have been so many attempts in recent months to expand the scope of abortion as if the killing…
Priests gathered at the annual Maynooth Union reunion have been urged to cherish and renew the friendships at the heart of their ministry, in a warm address that drew on Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence. Welcoming alumni back to St Patrick’s College for the gathering — held every year since the Union’s…
Bishop Niall Coll has announced the following clerical appointments in the Raphoe Diocese, to take effect on July 11 and 12. These appointments mark Bishop Coll’s first major parish changes as Bishop of Raphoe, and see several priests moving to new roles in the diocese. Very Rev. Denis Quinn, PP, will retire as PP, Carrick.…
Most demand for the divestment of Catholic primary schools to other patron bodies is in middle-class urban areas, with much less demand for divestment in rural and working-class areas, according to new analysis of an extensive Department of Education survey of parents around the country. More details of that survey have now emerged, and Alan…