Speaking on Vocations Sunday, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan warned that “screaming” voices in the media can draw us away from God. Bishop Cullinan, chairman of the council for vocations in the Irish bishops’ conference, said that “the only voice that really matters, is the voice of God” in his homily during Mass for vocations Sunday, May…
The Church in Ireland will continue to shrink, the new Bishop of Galway has predicted, but with the help of young people engaging with the synodal process can be renewed afresh. Bishop Michael Duignan was speaking as he took on the leadership of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora in addition to remaining as Bishop of Clonfert.…
Law firm Arthur Cox has announced it will team up with Catholic charity L’Arche Belfast, which will see employees engaging in volunteering and fundraising initiatives. Brian Burns, L’Arche Belfast opportunities leader, said the charity is “so pleased” and looking forward to the partnership. “We are so pleased that Arthur Cox has chosen us as their…
There has been an increase in the number of women expressing an interest in becoming nuns and joining contemplative orders, according to the director of Vocations Ireland. Despite a downward trend in vocations to religious life in Ireland over the past few decades, Margaret Cartwright told The Irish Catholic recently in Ireland “there is an…
Staff reporter The Pro-Life Campaign have criticised the inclusion of the Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill on the Government’s legislative programme. The bill proposes “to ensure safe access” to premises at which abortions may take place, according to the programme released Tuesday April 26. This would create areas around abortion facilities that…
The Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland’s NI election appeal, ‘Make Your Voices Heard’ was refused publication by the Belfast Telegraph, having initially agreed to publish it. The Belfast Telegraph took issue with passages in the appeal pertaining to pro-life values and unborn life. Taking to Twitter, Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said he was “disturbed…
Michael Kelly in Rome As the Church in Ireland continues the process of bishops, priests and laypeople working together to chart the future, Pope Francis has pleaded for Irish Catholics not to cling to past ways of doing things. He was speaking in unscripted remarks after receiving a group of Irish people involved in Catholic…
A professor of human rights in the North has warned rhetoric in the run up to the election and at protests against the Northern Ireland Protocol are “very concerning”. Catholic academic Prof. Colin Harvey of Queen’s University Belfast, who suffered severe online abuse after he was targeted in a speech at an anti-protocol rally earlier…
Staff reporter Pope Francis has appointed Msgr John Kennedy, a priest of Dublin diocese, as one of two secretaries to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). The announcement came last Sunday, April 24, and follows an instruction published last month which established two divisions for the CDF, doctrinal and disciplinary. Msgr Kennedy…
The founder of Poetry Ireland has encouraged artists “examining their faith” to apply for a Government scheme aimed to support the arts through a weekly €325 payment. Poet and novelist John F. Deane, whose works often focus on Christ and faith, has said it would be very helpful for artists’ development and urged people involved…
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