The National Novena at Knock opened on Sunday August 14 with a warm summer breeze, bright blue skies and a joyous atmosphere as pilgrims, young families, tourists and passers-by gathered for beginning of the nine-day devotion to Our Lady of Knock. With the Diocese of Meath making its annual pilgrimage to the shrine, Meath’s Bishop…

Music Ministry Together, held at Cistercian College Roscrea from August 16-21, is a summer school for youth and adult leaders with a passion for liturgical music and the desire to serve as ministers in their parishes, schools and communities. During the five-day summer school the participants gathered together as music ministers, and took part in…

Over 250 young people gathered at All Hallows College in Drumcondra, Dublin, over the weekend of August 20-21 for a conference organised by the Legion of Mary on the theme of how Mary fires up the spirit in our souls. Among the speakers at the conference was Roger Buck, an American-born convert to Catholicism from…

Greg Daly finds out how the ‘clearing’ process can offer students possibilities they might not have imagined

Paul Keenan discovers that divine inspiration wasn’t in short supply at the Rio Olympics

Joanna Moorhead reports from Rome on how 12 Syrians were plucked from a Greek refugee camp by Pope Francis in April and have settled in the Eternal City

Martin O’Brien meets onetime BBC political correspondent Martina Purdy, now Belfast’s Sr Martina of the Blessed Sacrament