EXCLUSIVE Many members of religious orders say they feel “hurt and dismayed” that a new initiative designed to promote vocations will not include them and only promote diocesan priesthood, The Irish Catholic has been told. It is understood that many religious congregations feel that the ‘Year of Vocations’, which is due to begin on April…
The Church in Ireland should pause its national synod until the conclusion of the global process, the Secretary General of the Vatican Synod has suggested. Cardinal Mario Grech recommended that Ireland “proceed at a slower pace” while the global discernment process is ongoing. The Church in Ireland should “wait for the conclusion of the universal…
Catholic schools are not interested in seeing radical gender ideology forced onto pupils, according to a leading voice in Catholic education in Ireland. Speaking on The Week that Really Was podcast, CEO of the Catholic Education Partnership, Alan Hynes, said that with regard to gender theory “we have to avoid teaching as fact stuff that…
The North’s Under Secretary of State has praised how Catholic schools promote reconciliation and integration, ahead of the Good Friday Agreement’s anniversary. Lord Caine joined the DUP’s Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and members of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) in a visit to St Patrick’s Academy, Lisburn, to mark Catholic Schools’ Week. After the…
A senator’s call to differentiate in law between the killing of a child within the first 24 hours of birth and the first 12 months of life has been described as “alarming and chilling”, by Laois-Offaly TD Carol Nolan. This comes after Fianna Fáil Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee issued a statement regarding concealed pregnancies and births last…
The in-person Irish delegates to the European phase of the synod process will be joined by ten online delegates representing different lobby groups and evangelisation initiatives. Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin will lead a delegation of four to the assembly in the Czech capital Prague from February 5-12 including Nicola Brady, Chairperson of…
L’Arche has released an independent report on its founder Jean Vanier, which finds that he belonged to a “sectarian group” with “distorted pseudo-mystical beliefs”. The independent commission established by L’Arche International found that at least 25 women “experienced sexual contact with Vanier which was part of a continuum of confusion, control and abuse” between 1950…
St Thomas Aquinas’ skull has arrived at the Dominican Convent of Toulouse in France, where it’s been placed in a new reliquary as the 700th anniversary of his canonisation is celebrated by the Church. The new reliquary was created by Augustin Frison-Roche and was blessed during a Mass on January 27. The Dominican order shared…
Veteran RTÉ broadcaster and advocate for those living with Motor Neurone Disease Charlie Bird will visit Sr Stan at the Sanctuary on Dublin’s Stanhope Street on February 7 at 3pm, where Sr Stan will present him with a copy of her book, Finding Hope. Sr Stan dedicated the book to Mr Bird “for his inspiration,…
The CEO of Trócaire, Caoimhe de Barra, has been elected the Chief Executive Officer of an umbrella group of Catholic social justice organisations. Caoimhe de Barra said the appointment to her new role in Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité (CIDSE), is an “honour and a privilege”. Having been a board member since 2020, she said:…
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