Last Saturday, Derry saw another conflict between nationalist youths and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), leaving ten officers injured. The violence following a peaceful Apprentice Boys’ Relief of Derry parade lasted a few hours. The Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown told The Irish Catholic, “there tends to be an annual build up to…

The remains of Bishop Eamonn Casey, which have been interred in Galway Cathedral since his death in 2017, could be relocated after child sexual abuse allegations were revealed in the RTÉ documentary ‘Bishop Casey’s Buried Secrets.’ The Diocese of Limerick, where the bishop first served in the late 1950s, told the Irish Daily Mail they…

Pro-life protestors who were arrested in Northern Ireland last October for violating UK buffer zone laws are speaking out amidst their ongoing court battle. The protesters had their first hearing on July 29, wherein they both entered a not guilty plea. “I believe I have done absolutely nothing wrong,” Claire Brennan stated in a recent Live Action report: “If…

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world realises,” said Fr Richard Gibbons, rector at Knock Shrine, speaking with this paper preceding the annual Novena at Knock Shrine, that began on August 14. The event is expected to draw over 130,000 faithful, as it has done for the last 47 years. However, as the…

Sr Briege McKenna, Catholic nun, mystic and author of Miracles Do Happen, during her current visit to Ireland shared a vision of a crisis within the Church – one she believes has already begun. Sr Briege described an image she received: “I saw this image of a vast desert and people were crying… And He…

The Bishop of Clogher Larry Duffy has paid tribute to the late Canon Joe Mullin, who died on August 8 aged 81. Canon Mullin, former PP of Lisnaskea-Maguiresbridge (Aghalurcher Parish) and from Fintona, Co. Tyrone, was also director of the Clogher Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes for many years. Bishop Duffy said the canon “reached out…

The row over the sale of a very valuable site in south Dublin to a local GAA club has escalated with the local church publicly accusing a local rugby club of deliberately undermining the sale. Foxrock Parish, which manages the site – conservatively valued at €10 million – on behalf of a diocesan trust recently…

The continuous push to remove faith formation from post-primary schools in Ireland must be resisted so young people are not “neglected” and receive no pastoral care, a priest involved in education for 20 years has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic Fr Patrick Moore PP of Castlepollard in Co. Westmeath and Vicar Forane said it…

A young newly ordained Dominican priest has described how the call of vocation never leaves and can even turn up in the most stressful of circumstances. Fr Chris Gault OP was a doctor in the emergency room in a Belfast hospital.  “It explains instances like the one I experienced in a Belfast hospital’s emergency department…

Since the world was on pause because of the COVID pandemic in 2020, there has been a notable uptick in demand for Miraculous Medals, a symbol of faith and divine intervention that dates back to 1830. Sr Anne O’Neill of the Daughters of Charity runs the office responsible for distributing these medals in Dublin and…