Archbishop Eamon Martin unveiled a plaque at the family home of Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich, marking the 100th anniversary of his birth. Archbishop Martin remembered the former Primate of All Ireland, who led the Church in Ireland from 1977 until his death in 1990, as a “good shepherd” who some would have “unfairly labelled him…
Fermanagh parish opens post box to Heaven The team at Aghalurcher Parish in Co. Fermanagh have erected white post boxes at their graveyards at both St Mary’s Maguiresbridge and Holy Cross Lisnaskea to enable parishioners to write letters to deceased friends and family. The white ‘Letters to Heaven’ post box enables parishioners to write letters,…
Newer Catholic communities who have made their homes in Ireland in recent years can help Irish Catholics rediscover their own faith, chaplains to these communities have said.
The reinstatement of a priest found to be credibly accused of abuse undermines the work of thousands of volunteers dedicated to stringent safeguarding in Ireland, according to an Irish abuse survivor and expert.
A Carmelite convent in Dublin has become the second enclosed order to be targeted by a new Government tax, after their appeal to An Bord Pleanala (ABP) was slapped down.
A key adviser to the worldwide synod has said that the Church in Ireland must seize the energy of the event to put parishes on a “genuinely missionary footing”.
Lay-led liturgies, including “Eucharistic para-liturgies”, church closures and centralised administration for parish clusters are on the cards as dioceses face “significant change” if they are to thrive.
Health minister Stephen Donnelly has been accused of “breaking a promise” made by the Government that abortion would never be conducted by telemedicine.
St Mary’s University College in Belfast has unveiled a new library named for St John Henry Cardinal Newman, as part of plans to transform the campus.
The Catholic school management body in the North of Ireland has raised “significant concerns” about a survey which found the majority of members of a teachers’ union in a Co. Tyrone school did not feel valued.
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