People are asking for reasons to believe, so let’s give it to them, writes Eoin McCormack Recently I attended a ‘Meetup’ event in Dublin city centre. For anyone unfamiliar with the concept, ‘Meetup’ is a social media platform for organising events and gatherings for people with similar interests. This event, being advertised to take place…
Vanitha Nadaraj Thousands in Malaysia have paid tributes to an Irish missionary nun who pioneered girls’ education in her adopted country for decades. Sr Enda Ryan died on April 7 at the age of 96, according to her religious congregation, the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM). FMM is an international Catholic religious order founded in…
The sudden death of beloved priest and bishop-elect has united Scottish Catholics in grief, writes Ian Dunn I couldn’t believe it. A text came through Wednesday lunchtime. Fr Martin Chambers had died in his sleep the night before. He was just 59, fit and healthy, and was due to be installed as Scotland’s newest bishop…
Vocations supplement 2024 Take a risk for Christ If you have ever drunk the colourful French liqueur Chartreuse, you already have a connection to the life of the Carthusians. The order’s name and also the liqueur derive from the Chartreuse Mountains in France, where their first charterhouse – the technical name for a Carthusian monastery…
African witchcraft is being used to traffic women, girls and men, hears Ruadhán Jones It may seem far-fetched in our rationalistic age to think that Juju, a form of African witchcraft, is being used to trap women, girls and some men in modern slavery in Ireland. But a webinar hosted by Irish religious orders…
The big philosophical questions about faith can’t be ignored, writes Eoin McCormack Almost two years on from the local synodal gatherings held in parishes across the country it seems appropriate as we celebrate season of Easter – the fundamental basis for our Christian identity – to assess our efforts in responding to one of…
Many loud voices calling for married priests do not promote priesthood at home, Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik tells Chai Brady In Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2023 he compared a vocation to a “divine seed that springs up in the soil of our existence, opens our hearts to…
Those gathered February 11 in St Saviour’s at the heart of Dublin city centre were treated to a masterclass in auditory and visual beauty, as artist William Nathans’ painting celebrating 800 years since the Dominican Order’s arrival in Ireland was unveiled to the heavenly sound of the Te Deum. The painting, commissioned by the Irish…
Susan Korah When St John Paul II arrived in Ottawa in 1984, the first pontiff to visit this country, greeting him in Ottawa was Canada’s 18th prime minister, Brian Mulroney, one of 10 Catholics who have held that office since 1867. The “little guy from Baie Comeau,” raised by Irish Catholic working-class parents, had come…
John Allen was in Los Angeles to give a talk to Catholics entitled ‘What’s Next? The Today and the Tomorrow of Francis’s Papacy’. The Irish Catholic sat down with John and asked him the question that will be on his audience’s lips – who’s the next Pope going to be and what will his style of governance be like? “Well, let me…
Ian Dunn
Ruadhán Jones
Chai Brady