It has been a time of transition for the people of Ballybrack/Killiney and Loughlinstown over the last year, which has seen the two communities and four churches become gradually incorporated into one parish with Fr Alex Conlan as moderator and Fr Tom Dalzell SM as curate. Fr Conlan says the parish team is trying to maintain…

Balally parish was constituted in 1977 from Sandyford parish and comprises of more than 2,200 homes with a population of approximately 9,000 people.  The Church of the Ascension of the Lord has served the people of Balally since its opening, but some items in the church building were not finalised until sale of land for…

Foxrock Parish tells us that the most remarkable feature of the community is “the participation of so many of its parishioners in parish life”.  The parish serves 4,000 households and vital to its running is its core team: Fr Frank Herron, parish administrator; Fr Gerard Doyle, curate; Archdeacon Ciarán Holahan; Maeve Davidson, parish pastoral worker;…

In 2014 the parish community of St Brigid’s, Cabinteely launched a series of listening based workshops on the theme: ‘What Really Matters?’ The project began by asking 100 people, from all walks of life, the question: “Can you sum up, in a word, what matters to you?” There was no shortage of responses and while…

As Dominicans celebrate 800 years, there are reasons to be hopeful in Ireland the provincial tells Greg Daly

Cathal Barry examines the extent to which the age old custom of the Station Mass is still practiced today

A misinterpretation of the Gospels has contributed to the confusion surrounding Mary Magdalene, writes Fr Brendan McConvery CSsR

St Anthony was a man of “missionary zeal” who is a “challenge and encouragement to us to help renew authentic faith in Jesus among those who find it hard to find God”, said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin at Mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on the feast of St Anthony of Padua on Monday night. About 8,000…

A look at the work of Friars Minor Conventual

Mags Gargan visits the National Shrine to St Anthony of Padua in Ireland