Your Faith in Our Schools Chai Brady learns about the unique approach of true Catholic schooling The power of Cat-holic education is the person-centred approach of teachers who “nurture” pupils and truly get to know them over time, according to the incoming chair of the Catholic Principals Association (CPA) at their conference in Belfast at…
Your Faith in Our Schools About 170 Catholic school principals from across Northern Ireland enjoyed a conference in which they could share their “common vision and values” and hear advice on mental health and wellbeing as well as modern Faith-based education. The Catholic Principals Association (CPA) conference began with a prayer and a tribute to…
The third Rosary on the Coast for Life and Faith took place across Ireland in over 250 locations this month, with thousands of people taking part. Organisers say an estimated 20-25 people prayed the rosary at each of the locations around Ireland on Sunday, October 13. Over 200 people prayed at Laytown, Co. Meath. This…
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Mission Sunday Supplement Missionaries succeed when they make missionary disciples, Greg Daly is told It won’t have escaped the notice of regular readers of The Irish Catholic that time and again, whenever there’s a crisis somewhere around the world – Venezuela, Sudan, Hong Kong, wherever – Irish missionaries on the ground are able to describe…
Glenstal Abbey offers a road map to living the Faith well in modern Ireland, writes Garry O’Sullivan I was speaking to a prominent Catholic public figure recently who lamented the dramatic disappearance of Catholic life from the public sphere. A bit like predictions around melting glaciers, the decline has evidently become more an avalanche than the…
One of the first questions posed by those who have not followed the road to sainthood of an individual is: what are the miracles? There must be two recognised miracles attributed to a person who is to be canonised and Cardinal John Henry Newman, recognised as a saint on October 13 at the Vatican, is…
Cardinal Newman – Special Supplement Newman speaks as clearly to us today as to his peers in the 19th Century, writes Bishop Fintan Monahan “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often” – John Henry Newman John Henry Newman will be canonised as a new saint of the Catholic…
Cardinal Newman – Special Supplement John Henry Newman wasn’t always an obvious friend of this country, writes Fr Bernard Healy When we look at the beginning of John Henry Newman’s public life, it would be hard to imagine a less likely friend of the Irish. In 1829, he was an up-and-coming Oxford academic and Anglican…
Cardinal Newman – Special Supplement Newman left Ireland three wonderful gifts, writes Prof. Teresa Iglesias From the age of 50 to 57, Newman tirelessly laboured for a “great undertaking” in Dublin, the establishment of the Catholic University of Ireland. These were the years 1851 to 1858, which as regards personal powers and dedication he describes…
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