Staff and patients are upset at the removal of all Catholic imagery from St Vincent’s University Hospital, after the hospital’s controversial transfer from the Religious Sisters of Charity (RSC). All crucifixes and holy images – including of the hospital’s founder Mother Mary Aikenhead – were removed from public display this year in the hospital, while…
A Dublin-based priest has commended the Church’s work with asylum seekers while condemning the attempted conflation of the Church with the anti-immigration proponents by Social Democrats Dublin Central TD Gary Gannon. Taking to Twitter on Monday, Mr Gannon shared an Irish Times article titled, ‘Why are Ireland’s Church leaders so silent on immigration?’ while commenting…
Staff morale at Mary Immaculate College has been “damaged” by the lack of transparency around the failure to appoint a new Head of Theology, a senior lecturer has said. Despite two rounds of interviews since September 2022, MIC has failed to find a new head for its theology department, meaning the department has been without…
Irish bishops have been called to “open the doors” to “vibrant” African priests to re-evangelise Ireland by a bishop from a persecuted diocese in north-east Nigeria. Bishop Oliver Doeme of Maiduguri diocese told The Irish Catholic that Ireland must intensify its devotion to Our Lady to combat “the forces of evil”, after speaking at the All–Ireland…
If the Government’s solution to prison overcrowding is to simply build more prison spaces, “we’ll be having this conversation in the future as well,” a penal policy advocate with the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has said. Reports Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper about recent reports that well over one hundred prisoners, both…
Irish people should celebrate migrants and asylum seekers and let them know the country would be “poorer without their presence here”, the Archbishop of Dublin has said. Speaking during Ecumenical Bible Week in Dublin City Centre, which ran from May 28-June 4, Archbishop Dermot Farrell spoke about the importance of hope and raised the issue…
A parish in Kerry diocese is facing a bill of €100,000 for restorations and has released a plea to former parishioners and descendants of the parish to offer their support. The Sacred Heart Church in Glengarriff, Co. Cork, is “at the heart of our parish”, Fr Niall Howard told The Irish Catholic, adding it is…
The war in Ukraine “can be stopped in a day”, just as the Soviet Union fell in three days, a chaplain to Ukrainian Catholics in Ireland has said. Giving hope to those who fled the war in Ukraine “is very, very challenging”, Fr Vasyl Kornitsky has said, but warned that despair is “a very dangerous…
The internet has been asking questions about famed singer Elizabeth Woolridge Grant’s faith, better known as Lana Del Rey, after she visited Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue while on a recent trip to Brazil. While visiting a famous landmark is no cause for speculation, the popstar went to the chapel of Our…
The new leader of a charity targeting Christian persecution around the world is from the North of Ireland and will serve for five years. The international pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be led by Regina Lynch from June 14. She is a long-serving project director for the charity. Ms Lynch…
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