“This year, in homage and gratitude to you, I am going to decree that the Christmas season [begins] on October 1,” declared Nicolás Maduro, leader of the ruling socialist regime in Venezuela, September 2 on national television. “For everyone, Christmas has arrived with peace, happiness, and security,” Maduro added. According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo,…
Letter of the week Left with uncompromising ideologies… Dear Editor, I find it disturbing that a Junior Cert school book presenting a course that aims at promoting inclusion, has had a cartoon and write-up depicting traditional Irish families as boring, wearing Aran jumpers, red heads, knowing nothing of the world outside their immediate surroundings or…
Pope Francis arrived in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Tuesday, kicking off the longest and farthest trip of his tenure to the Asia Pacific region. He is expected to highlight environmental concerns and the importance of interfaith dialogue during the 12 day trip, which will also see him travel to Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Timor-Leste –…
The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 Professor Nick Maynard is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University Hospital in England who has been visiting Gaza regularly since 2010. Working with Trócaire’s partner organisation Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Prof. Maynard has travelled to Gaza three times since the latest devastating war began last October, putting himself at great personal risk…
Singer Morrissey has sent a letter to Pope Francis asking him “to condemn the sinful spectacle of bullfighting”. The former frontman of The Smiths, who lent his support to Notre Dame Cathedral after it was damaged following a fire and has famously championed animal rights, sent an open letter addressed to the head of the…
On September 3, the relics of St Bernadette were entrusted to Bishop Kevin Doran to bring home to Ireland, who was leading a pilgrimage to Lourdes with the Diocese of Elphin. This marks the first visit of St Bernadette’s relics to Ireland. The Elphin pilgrims brought these relics to Ireland, beginning a journey around the…
Following successive years of falling vocations and the retirement of priests, the Diocese of Killaloe has been buoyed by the news that three men from counties Clare and Tipperary will enter the seminary at Maynooth later this month. For the first time in two decades, three vocations have been recorded in one of Ireland’s largest…
The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 It all started with two Franciscan friars and a cup of tea in 1969. Ireland’s most beloved charity has spoken the language of the human heart ever since — here for the homeless and hungry for more than five decades, thanks to the caring donations of everyday people.…
The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 Home. It’s where you feel most secure. Where your loved ones and your memories are. Where you can be most yourself. But today, for thousands here in Ireland, the stark reality of their lives is homelessness, emergency accommodation or the awful looming threat that they are weeks, days…
The Irish Catholic Autumn Legacy Supplement 2024 LauraLynn is Ireland’s only Children’s Hospice, providing hospice, palliative care and support for children with life-limiting conditions and their families from across Ireland. Looking after a child with palliative care needs is one of the most challenging things a family can face. Beyond the physical challenges and medical…