Staff at the headquarters of the Church in Ireland are taking up the Pope’s challenge to go green looking about how they can practically take on board the Pope’s ecological letter Laudado Si’ on the care of creation. Around 20 members of the hierarchy’s secretariat attended a training day hosted by representatives from Trócaire and…
Tackling rural isolation seen as key challenge A proposal that would see people allowed to arm themselves for protection from intruders would be a sign that the country has “lost its soul”, a leading priest-campaigner for rural Ireland has warned. Fr Harry Bohan has also appealed to parishioners to work to tackle the scourge…
An Irish Franciscan priest who has been living in Zimbabwe for 50 years says he is hopeful for the future of the country. Fr Walter Gallahue, a parish priest in Harare, told The Irish Catholic that everything was “very peaceful” in the capital. “There is no sense of panic, we are waiting to see what will happen,” he…
The WMOF18 is calling on artists and designers to put on their creative thinking caps to come up with a “unique and inspirational” design for the vestments to be worn by priests, bishops and the Pope himself at the masses of the World Meeting of Families in August 2018. The design “should lend itself to…
Susan Gately writes on the Capuchin doorkeeper who teaches us ‘I can’t do everything but I will do what I can’. The Irish heritage of a Capuchin priest beatified last weekend in Detroit made him who he was, according to Fr Tom Betz OFM Cap., St Augustine, Pittsburg’s Capuchin Provincial Minister. Fr Betz was speaking…
When Antoinette Moynihan speaks to First Communion school children about Jesus in the Eucharist, she opens the door of the monstrance and peers through it at them. “They can see me. I tell them ‘Jesus is looking through the monstrance and He can see you’.” After explaining Eucharistic adoration, she brings them to the church…
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began yesterday (Wednesday) with an official inauguration service at the Church of Ireland parish in Taney in south Dublin. This year the event occurs while the Catholic bishops are in Rome at their ad limina meeting with the Pope, so no Catholic bishops will be present at ecumenical…
Eight people took their own lives in Cork last weekend according to a Dáil deputy from the city. “My phone was hopping all weekend. If it was a minibus with eight people killed it would be national news,” Sinn Féin TD Pat Buckley told The Irish Catholic. Deputy Buckley, who lost two brothers to death…
Younger people, fearful of adding chemicals to their bodies, are re-discovering natural family planning, writes Susan Gately
Ahead of a much-anticipated budget, Susan Gately looks at taxation from a Catholic point of view