The Villaregia Missionary Community has established a new presence in Ghinnir, in Ethiopia’s East Bale, seeking to reach communities where the Catholic Church has a limited presence. According to a report on September 29 by Agenzia Fides, the Villaregia Missionary Community has been visiting communities in East Bale where they have been raising awareness about…
Pope Leo XIV sent a condolence message to Holy Family Parish in Gaza after an Israeli missile strike killed five people, including Christian mother Maysa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud and her daughter, Mary Hafez Michel Najjar, Fr Gabriel Romanelli said in an October 4 video update. Reading the pope’s note, Fr Romanelli said Pope Leo…
Ten years after Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Catholic Church with his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Pope Leo XIV is inviting church leaders to Rome next week to understand how Francis’s document has been implemented. Vatican officials last week stressed that Francis’s 2016 text Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) …
Many of the far-right’s views on Christian teaching and the place and role of Christian faith in public life are not an “authentic expression of Christianity,” Pope Leo XIV said last week. The pontiff was answering a question from Ludwig Ring-Eifel of KNA, a major German Catholic newspaper, during the in-flight press conference en route…
Scotland’s Catholic bishops are responding to a renewed political effort to decriminalise abortion in their country, condemning a Green Party push to treat abortion as “health care” and calling on legislators to invest in measures that actually protect and support mothers. Last week, the Green Party called on the current Scottish government to act on…
Bishop Cullinan encourages return to Mary and the Rosary Ireland’s bishops should formally consecrate the country to Our Lady as part of a renewal of the Catholic faith, leading Mariologist Dr Mark Miravalle has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Dr Miravalle said the Irish people have “Marian DNA” which has endured even as…
At the ‘Living Magnifica Humanitas’ conference in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Archbishop Eamon Martin asked the conference participants in his opening address to keep in mind the question, “Who has the power to call the current conversation about AI, and whose voice is missing from the room?” Archbishop Martin referenced Magnifica Humanitas’ emphasis on interdisciplinary…
Young people actively participating in the Church “have that zeal in them,” said young Belfast legionary Nathan Magill to The Irish Catholic. Speaking at the Legion of Mary headquarters in Dublin upon the arrival of St Thérèse’s relics to Morning Star Avenue last weekend, Mr Magill and fellow legionary Sr Jasmine Cano, both in their…
A Catholic men’s group in the west of Ireland has seen its memberships double in a little over a year, as organisers say growing numbers of men are seeking faith, fraternity and formation. Fr Mark Quinn, curate in Tuam, told The Irish Catholic that the Men of St Joseph began in Tuam with around 40…
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawlowski, Titular Archbishop of Sejny, as the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. He has been serving as Apostolic Nuncio in Greece. Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawłowski was born on November 23, 1960, in Biskupiec (Archdiocese of Warmia), the eldest of four sons of Stanisław and Magdalena. In 1979, he…