Mary Immaculate College has slammed what it describes as “unwarranted attempts” to influence the interview process for appointing a new head of theology. This post has been vacant since last summer. The college will not engage with any party making “unwarranted attempts” to seek information that might have the effect of “unduly influencing the course…
Catholic teaching on sexuality is not about oppression but “ultimate happiness” a barrister in the North of Ireland has said following a report by the NI Human Rights Commission (NIHCR) criticising the delivery of relationship and sex education (RSE) in schools. In the report the NIHCR noted that some schools were promoting abstinence before marriage as…
There was a “significant increase” in the number of historic abuse allegations made to the Church’s independent safeguarding watchdog last year. The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI) said that many of the reports relate to alleged abuse in boarding schools run and managed by male and female religious,…
Irish runner Rhasidat Adeleke said she is “grateful to God” after winning gold with a record run in the NCAA Championships in Texas. The 20-year-old became the first Irish sprinter to win a NCAA title after she registered a meet-record time of 49.20, breaking her own Irish 400m record in the process. “Grateful to God…
Thousands of the Faithful, including many young people and families, descended on St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh to visit the relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis, who died of leukemia when he was 15 in 2006. Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh archdiocese welcomed the relic to the cathedral on Sunday morning, where it stayed until Tuesday.…
A major conference aimed at supporting the development of healthcare chaplaincy in Ireland is due to take place in Dublin later this month. Stewarding the Mysteries: perspectives on healthcare chaplaincy, will be held in Croke Park on Thursday, June 29 and is a free event open to all, sponsored by Bon Secours Health System. Organisers…
Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell will launch the new website of the Tarsus Scripture School Friday June 16 after those behind it identified that people are “hungry” for better catechesis. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, one of the founders, Sean Goan, said that those who’ve availed of the scriptural school so far haven’t “been…
Almost half the parishes in Killaloe diocese are ministered to by a priest over the retirement age of 75. Some 27 of the 58 parishes in the diocese have no resident priest under 75, Bishop Fintan Monahan said as he announced the diocesan appointments. Meetings were held across Killaloe diocese earlier this year, with radical…
Staff and patients are upset at the removal of all Catholic imagery from St Vincent’s University Hospital, after the hospital’s controversial transfer from the Religious Sisters of Charity (RSC). All crucifixes and holy images – including of the hospital’s founder Mother Mary Aikenhead – were removed from public display this year in the hospital, while…
A Dublin-based priest has commended the Church’s work with asylum seekers while condemning the attempted conflation of the Church with the anti-immigration proponents by Social Democrats Dublin Central TD Gary Gannon. Taking to Twitter on Monday, Mr Gannon shared an Irish Times article titled, ‘Why are Ireland’s Church leaders so silent on immigration?’ while commenting…
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