Mercy Sister in Nairobi says hunger is the worst in 40 years Children are being born disabled in Nairobi’s Mukuru slum because their mothers are going hungry during pregnancy, an Irish Mercy Sister has warned, as cuts to international aid push the community into its worst crisis in four decades. Sr Mary Killeen, who…
Delegates representing the Church in Ireland gathered to consider and vote on 35 proposals designed to guide the future of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The National Synod Assembly took place at the City North Hotel, Gormanston, Co. Meath, on Saturday, October 17, with over 300 nominated lay, clerical and religious voting representatives. Speaking to…
Fr Willie Doyle SJ offers young men a model of “healthy forms of masculinity”, Bishop Tom Deenihan has said, as the World War I chaplain’s cause for canonisation heads to Rome. Speaking to The Irish Catholic after the closing of the diocesan inquiry in The Cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar on Sunday, the…
The Church in Ireland has become “much more open to accepting that we’re not a perfect Church”, the Primate of All Ireland has said, crediting Amoris Laetitia with helping the Church to accept the brokenness and fragility of marriage. Speaking to The Irish Catholic at the close of a week-long Vatican summit marking ten years since the exhortation, Archbishop…
More than 3,000 relics of saints and martyrs will go on public display at a Kilkenny church on All Saints’ Day, in an event inviting visitors to reflect on the lives of those who have gone before them in faith. St Canice’s Parish will make the collection available for veneration during and after its 11:30am…
Hundreds of pro-life advocates gathered at the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, for the Pro Life Campaign National Conference 2026 on Saturday, October 17. The event offered a space for discussions, workshops and talks. Addressing the present, Pro Life Campaign’s Eilís Mulroy said the Oireachtas Health Committee, “tasked with scrutinising Sinn Féin’s bill to abolish the three-day…
A new training course on synodality will open on October 26, organised by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre of the Sophia University Institute, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod. The 2026-2027 course will begin with a free online webinar entitled ‘Toward a New Humanism: A Synodal Way of Life’. The webinar is open…
Deacon Fergal O’Neill The Church of Our Lady and St Joseph in Caragh, Co. Kildare, will host a special celebration at 6.30pm on Thursday, November 19 2026, for the enshrinement of the first-class relics of St Carlo Acutis. The chief celebrant will be Bishop Denis Nulty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. The occasion follows a…
Irish Archbishop Paul Tighe has warned against treating artificial intelligence as inevitable, saying people must be actively involved in shaping how the technology develops. Speaking at a European discussion on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, Archbishop Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, said “there is nothing inevitable about AI”. He said the…
Assembly decisions should not be presented as ‘authentic voice’ of Irish Catholics The Synodal Pathway is “offering the Church here little more than a political-type programme”, a senior priest has warned on the eve of its National Assembly in Gormanston. Fr Andrew McMahon, a Dromore priest, writer and commentator, said the proposals going before…
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