Plea for Catholics to put homeless, health crisis and youth at centre of vote With just over a week to the general election, Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran has urged Catholics to reflect deeply before voting and urged them to think of the less well-off before casting their ballot. He also fired a shot across…
NBA basketball legend Kobe Bryant reportedly attended Mass just hours before his death in a tragic accident on Sunday, January 26. Mr Bryant, a devout Catholic, was killed along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other passengers in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. He was on his way to the Mamba Sports Academy…
Any person with no fixed address will have found it difficult to register to vote for the upcoming election, even though people who are homeless – or are in prison – can technically vote. In order to vote from prison, which has been legal in Ireland since 2006, a prisoner must apply to be included…
Singing priest Fr Ray Kelly lived to ‘dance’ another day after surviving another elimination on RTÉ1’s Dancing With The Stars. Fr Kelly performed the paso double to the theme from The Magnificent Seven movie with professional dance partner Kylee Vincent on Sunday, January 26. Yet despite posting the lowest score for the third week running,…
The new bishop of Achonry has said that the Church needs to prioritise ministry with young people. It was announced on Monday that Pope Francis has appointed Carlow-born Fr Paul Dempsey as the new Bishop of Achonry. Up to this point Fr Dempsey (48) has been Parish Priest of Newbridge in the Diocese of Kildare…
Tomi Reichental says his experience of the Holocaust was “hell on earth” and fears history may “repeat itself” with the migrant crisis and the rise of populist politics in Europe. The Irish-based 85-year-old survivor drew comparisons of Jews being taken to Nazi concentration camps to refugees being displaced around the continent. He said: “When we…
Prominent theologian Fr Vincent Twomey SVD has said that the Church in Ireland must go farther to atone for the crimes of abuse and cover-up by Church leaders. He warned that “repentance begins with the courageous facing-up to the past and the frank acknowledgment of wrongdoing”. One way of doing this, he said, “would be…
World Visions Ireland has welcomed the first conviction of a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)case in Ireland. On Monday, a married couple were sentenced to prison. The father, aged 37 received five and a half years and the mother, aged 27 received four years and nine months. Fíona O’Malley from the Christian organisation World Visions Ireland…
Pope Francis has appointed Carlow-born Fr Paul Dempsey as the new Bishop of Achonry. The announcement was made in a communique released by the Vatican this morning (Monday). Up to this point, Fr Dempsey (48) has been Parish Priest of Newbridge in the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin congratulated…
Chai Brady and Aron Hegarty The spate of gang violence, brutal killings and spread of drugs and guns wracking Ireland has provoked condemnation from clergy across the country who are calling for more Garda funding and that illegal drug users “wake up” and stop enabling violence. The burning of a man in Cork, dismemberment of…