The diocese of Killaloe has announced a year-long initiative to encourage young men to consider a vocation to the priesthood. A multimedia promotional campaign across the counties of Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Offaly and Laois is underway, to be followed up by parish visits. While just over half of the diocese’s 58 parishes have a resident…
The failure to consult parents about new regulations on Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) in the North has caused “massive anger,” according to Baroness Nuala O’Loan writing in this week’s edition of The Irish Catholic. Noting that education is a devolved matter for the Assembly, the former Police Ombudsman writes that when a law was introduced…
Sacred Heart Hospital in Roscommon has been forced to shut the doors to its chapel after a HIQA inspection found “poor practice” in the area of fire safety there. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Independent TD for Roscommon-Galway Michael Fitzmaurice said that his understanding was that the choice facing the hospital was that they…
Over 600 Rathmines parishioners celebrated the parish’s 200th anniversary on Saturday, September 17, with a Mass and reception in the Church of Mary Immaculate Refuge of Sinners. Fr Andrew O’Sullivan, parish priest in Dublin, celebrated the anniversary Mass, which the parish spent months preparing for. A number of museum and reliquary displays, including one exhibiting…
The relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis, described by Pope Francis as a “model for the young”, drew thousands to Knock Shrine for Mass and veneration. Principal celebrant at Mass was the bishop of Blessed Acutis’ hometown of Assisi, Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, who along with Msgr Anthony Figueiredo accompanied the young man’s relics on a tour…
We all share blame for road accidents – bishop All road users must accept their “collective responsibility” for road traffic accidents, Bishop of Killaloe Fintan Monahan has said. His comments come in the wake of a spate of deaths and injuries resulting from collisions and accidents on Irish roads. After our immediate reaction to the…
Church leaders are hopeful that more and more parishioners will step up and preside at funerals to ease the burden on overworked priests, with two dioceses already commissioning laypeople to take charge where there is no priest. More than 70 new lay leaders in Clogher and Down and Connor dioceses are undertaking training to preside…
A priest who has played a prominent role in peace-building efforts in the North has criticised as a “major oversight” the use of the phrase “both communities” in the announcement of the EU’s ‘Peace Plus’ funding. Fr Martin Magill of St John’s on Falls Road said that the €1bn peace fund came as a “relief”…
The Dominican Order in Ireland continues to see vocations’ success as it recently welcomed two new novices and saw the first profession of three new brothers. The Dominicans currently have 17 brothers in varying stages of formation with another man due to be ordained October 1. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, the order’s vocations…
Chai Brady and Ruadhán Jones The Christian Brothers have settled over 90 claims for compensation from victims and survivors of abuse, the head of the order has said. Bro. David Gibson wouldn’t disclose the amount the congregation has paid out, and also defended the congregation’s controversial approach to responding to claims of abuse in a…
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