‘Enthusiastic’ and ‘committed’ were some of the words chosen to sum up the feelings of delegates at the end of a diocesan training day on the Amoris ‘Let’s Talk Family – let’s be family’ course. Over one hundred representatives of parishes in the Kildare and Leighlin diocese attended the day at St Patricks’, Carlow College…
Bishop Denis Nulty will be flipping pancakes at a party at the primary school in Prosperous on Shrove Tuesday, February 13. “There are two reasons for the party – we’re preparing to start our parish conversations on Faith and Family over the Sundays in Lent, following the course provided by the WMOF and we thought…
Former UCD student president Katie Ascough talks to Susan Gately about winning the prestigious Westminster Award One defining moment in Katie Ascough’s life was when she held her dead baby brother in her hand. Her mother, Jaclyn, had miscarried at home. “I remember holding him in the palm of my hand and being shocked by…
Every day in Ireland over 500,000 single use cups and 2.5 million bottles are disposed of through landfill and incineration. Eight million tonnes of plastic leaks into the ocean each year. The Waste Reduction bill, progressing through the Dáil, aims to ban plastic cutlery / plates and establish a deposit/refund scheme (DRS) for glass, plastic…
Bishop says Papal gesture seen as a way to reach-out An Irish bishop has said a gesture by Pope Francis to marry a pair of flight attendants on board the Papal plane should cause the Church to consider whether the requirement to get married in a church building needs to be changed. Bishop of…
Women facing crisis pregnancies need compassion, but this does not give anyone the right to end another’s life, Fr Brian D’Arcy has said. Speaking on RTÉ’s Clare Byrne Show on Monday, Fr D’Arcy said: “I understand that we lose life, life doesn’t last forever, that mothers in difficulties have to make absolute choices, and I’ve…
Bishop Donal McKeown has said that experiencing narratives of victimhood and hopelessness during a recent trip to the Holy Land reminded him of ministering in Belfast during the civil conflict in the North. The Bishop of Derry was speaking on his return from the Holy Land where he was part of the annual ‘Holy Land…
A scripture scholar tells Susan Gately about her journey from Protestantism to the Catholic Church A woman who started life as a Reformed Presbyterian “with a Baptist mother” and followed three of her family into the Catholic Church, gave the keynote address at the inaugural meeting for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Dr…
A centre founded by an Irish priest has been proposed as a partner in Africa’s Great Green Wall project, writes Susan Gately Fifteen kilometres wide and 8,000 km long, the Great Green Wall is a band of indigenous trees and vegetation planted across Africa which aims to halt the desertification of the Sahel and…
Sign of peace up to bishops Removing the sign of peace due to flu outbreak will not be rolled out across Ireland’s dioceses. “There is not a collective position on this – it is a matter for each individual diocese,” Martin Long, spokesman for the Bishops’ Conference, told The Irish Catholic. The HSE has…