After a Finnish MP was acquitted of hate speech charges levelled against her for expressing Christian beliefs about marriage, an Irish lawyer said her case showed the “chilling effect” such laws can have on Christians. As the Irish Government considers introducing its own hate speech laws, Mr Lorcan Price warned Catholics in Ireland that authorities…

Cuts to the education budget in the North will have a “major impact” on the “Catholic family of schools”, according to submissions to a report released by the Executive. Faith based schools hit back at claims that cuts will result in “minor negative impacts” on Catholic schools, according to the Department of Education’s ‘Equality Impact…

A popular Catholic app has defended employing Irish actor Liam Neeson for prayer voiceovers, as it faced backlash due Mr Neeson’s pro-choice positions. In a statement, Hallow, a prayer app with millions of users, said Mr Neeson and his fellow actors have done “an incredible job” recording scripts for the Advent season. Mr Neeson joined…

An Irish priest based in Magdala on the shore of the Sea of Galilee has said that “providence” organised their presence there so that they could receive around 240 Israelis displaced from the north due to ongoing fighting with militant group Hezbollah. Fr Eamon Kelly LC told The Irish Catholic that after the flow of…

Thirty-six men from dioceses across Ireland enrolled in this year’s weekend gathering from November 18-19, in the national seminary of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to help discern a priestly vocation. According to Fr Willie Purcell, director of the National Vocations Office of the Irish Bishops’ Conference: “The weekend offers those discerning a vocation to the…

The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) has estimated it will receive more than quarter of a million requests for help this year, as Christmas approaches. With calls for help already at almost 200,000 to date, the society expects calls at the end of this year to well exceed last year’s record of 230,000 calls.…

A Mexico school run by the Augustinian order threw themselves into Irish food and culture, making hurleys out of bits of plastic and sampling a full Irish breakfast, all witnessed by Irish friar Fr Colm O’Mahony OSA. Fr O’Mahony was invited to the Mendel Institute in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to join them in…

A “world famous and world renowned” scholar and librarian, Donegal-born Fr Leonard Boyle OP, was recently remembered and celebrated in Rome by his Irish Dominican brothers on the centenary of his birth in 1923. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Provincial for the Dominican Order in Ireland, Fr John Harris OP, said that “the most…

Kildare and Leighlin receives lay funding boost Proceeds from the writings of a deceased Laois parish priest will go towards training lay people for ministry in counties Laois, Kildare, Offaly and Carlow. After he was presented with a cheque for €7,000 by members of the Cummins family, from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Bishop of Kildare and…