Matt Letourneau In late 2024 it was announced that the Cistercians were to leave Mount Mellaray and the future of the monastery is uncertain.  Earlier in the summer we visited Melleray and spoke to the then Abbot and we decided to repeat the feature now as a tribute to the monks and the historic monastery.…

Faith has been a positive anchor for Dublin airport’s CEO during stressful times, Chai Brady hears   For as long as he can remember, the CEO of DAA (previously called Dublin Airport Authority) has said his Faith has been a part of his life and has helped throughout his business career. In an exclusive and…

Christianity is suddenly becoming a respectable intellectual choice again. It will take some time for this news to reach Ireland, maybe even another couple of decades, but next door in England, and in the US and Canada, we are seeing some movement by some leading intellectuals, and other people of influence towards Christianity. Some have…

Fr Paul Clayton-Lea Despite the turbulence and pressure surrounding the Church in recent decades the vast majority of Irish Catholic parents and many non-Catholic ones too, remain strongly attached to the choice of Catholic schools for their children. This confidence and determination of today’s young parents to defend and maintain their bond with Catholic schools…

Jean-Claude Juncker’s 70th birthday last month went largely unnoticed.  If not quite a forgotten figure now, Juncker has largely faded from international view having for many years been the leading politician in his home country of Luxembourg, and a key player in EU affairs, especially in regard to crafting the Maastricht Treaty, later crowning his…

The Papal Nuncio and the Bishop of Derry visited Omagh, Co. Tyrone to join the faithful who flocked to Sacred Heart Church to celebrate both its 125th year anniversary and the 260th anniversary of St Mary’s Church, Drumragh. Drumragh parish welcomed the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, and Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry to…

If you have ever visited Rome, you’ll know around almost every corner is a Church or ruin with some significant story to tell. San Clamente, which lies just some hundred meters from the Colosseum and has been under the care of the Irish Dominicans for the past 350 years is not just ‘another’ Church with…

“He started to draw himself as a ‘saint’. He was seeing himself in a different world,” hears Renata Milán Morales. A short documentary was premiered at the end of this year, In God’s Hands. Originally from Roscommon, Niall Sheerin, director of the film explains to The Irish Catholic the meaning of it. In God’s Hands…

In a time when questions surrounding faith, tradition, and ecclesial renewal – a time when debates around women ordination and married priests – echo across the Catholic world, few journeys capture these themes as powerfully as the story of Fr Joshua J. Whitfield, author of The Crisis of Bad Preaching: Redeeming the Heart and Way…

According to Beaumont Hospital, Ireland has one of the highest rates of donations in the world: 20.3 donors pmp (per million population). The Irish Catholic invites you to learn the story of a Cavan man who had both of his lungs and one kidney transplanted. David Crosby is the oldest of five children. When he…