Category: Irish News

‘By this sign shalt thou conquer’

Columbia’s first ever Tour de France winner wrapped up his historic victory on Sunday by making the sign of the cross with his younger brother and again with his mother. Egan Bernal, 22, the youngest cyclist to win the world’s most famous bicycle race in 110 years and the first Latin American to do so…

Aid agency condemns West Bank home demolitions

Trócaire has condemned the demolition by Israeli authorities of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, describing such demolitions as illegal and driven by a desire to disconnect communities. Responding to reports from the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem that authorities planned to demolish 13 buildings – including at least 14 apartments – last week, the…

Parish prayers answered as victorious Lowry triumphs

After Massgoers’ prayers for golfer Shane Lowry were answered over the weekend, there is “tremendous excitement” in Clara parish, a local priest has said. Shane returned home to the small Offaly town on Wednesday and received a hero’s welcome after winning the British Open. Commenting on Shane’s mother Bridget clutching a statue of St Anthony…

Boys Town priest’s sainthood cause edges forward

The canonisation cause of a famous Irish-American priest has taken a key step forward with the presentation in the Vatican of a summary of records about his life. A positio about Roscommon-born Fr Edward Flanagan, founder of Nebraska’s Boys Town community was presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on Monday July 22,…

Plotting the route for our future Church

The Church can’t afford to lie back and do nothing, Bishop Michael Router tells Colm Fitzpatrick   At a time in Ireland when the Church is experiencing tumultuous and unprecedented change, visionaries who can move it in the right direction are needed more than ever. The challenges are well-known and can’t be solved overnight –…