Antrim: Bishop Noel Treanor, Fr Charles Lwanga Kaweesi, Fr Derek Kearney, Canon Brendan Murray – Spiritual Director of Down & Connor Apostolic work – Fr Sean Emerson PP Antrim, Fr Felix Mc Guckin, Fr James O Reilly with other priests associated with mission at the annual Mass in Down and Connor to celebrate the work carried…
Rome: A group of young people from the Dromore Diocese visiting the Irish Pontifical College where Mass was celebrated by Bishop Donal McKeown as part of a trip connected to the JPII programme.
Laois: Kyrle Delaney receives a Benemerenti medal from Fr Sean Maher PP at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Stradbally. Also pictured is former PP Fr Sean Kelly (left).
Dublin: Archbishop Eamon Martin launches the new publication by Dr John O’Keeffe entitled The Masses of Sean and Peadar O’Riada: Explanations in Vernacular Chant, which assesses the achievements of both composers measuring their work against the heritage discipline and compositional principles of western plain chant. Pictured are Archbishop Eamon Martin chatting with Dr O’Keeffe (centre)…
Clare: Bishop Fintan Monahan thanks Gerard Gallagher and Jesse Rogers for “excellent presentations” at the Killaloe Diocesan In-service, also pictured are Maureen Kelly, Ger Nash and Eamon FitzGibbon.
US: A helicopter drops water on a fast moving wildfire in Orange, California. A recent Catholic Climate Covenant webinar explored the connection between global warming and extreme weather events.
India: A woman in Delhi sits amid the rubble of her home destroyed by local authorities in a bid to relocate the residents. Pope Francis will celebrate the Catholic Church’s first World Day of the Poor this Sunday.
Kenya: A protester shouts in front of a burning barricade in a slum area of Nairobi. Kenyan Catholic bishops have announced plans to convene a national dialogue forum in the face of a political crisis
A perfect sunny day as Sr Marie Therese Brosnan delights Caitlin Barry, blowing bubbles with her in the garden of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, Co. Waterford. The picture is contained in a new book, A Year in the Life of Glencairn Abbey, which – through a series of images and words – offers a rare insight…
Loreto nun Sr Orla Treacy, with a statue of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty after being awarded the 2017 Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award in Killarney over the weekend. Sr Orla is principal of the Loreto school in Rumbek, South Sudan, where she has been a missionary since 2006. Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan