Dublin’s St Valentine’s Shrine has warned against an internet scam around medals falsely linked with the shrine. Highlighting how a website is selling medals of St Valentine purporting to contain soil from Whitefriar Street Church, which houses the Shrine of St Valentine, Carmelite authorities have denied that any soil has been taken from the church.…
Northern bishops have sharply criticised nationalist politicians for their failure to stand up to prevent abortion being imposed on the region. The move – which took effect at midnight on Monday – came after a sitting of the assembly was unable to form an executive due to the failure of both Sinn Féin and the…
Priests and bishops who have stirred up contempt for the religious traditions of indigenous South America people are partly to blame for the desecration of religious images, an Irish priest from the Jesuits’ Paraguayan province has said. Commenting on how statues of a pregnant woman, identified as symbols of life and ‘Our Lady of the…
Readers of The Irish Catholic on Facebook page have backed Bishop Phonsie Cullinan’s call for Catholic schools to ditch yoga in favour of more Catholic forms of prayer. In a letter sent to Catholic schools in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, Bishop Cullinan warned the practice is “not of Christian origin”. In a poll…
Leading human rights campaigner Baroness Nuala O’Loan has pleaded with Catholic lawmakers in the North to return to Stormont to block the imminent imposition of abortion on the region by Westminster. A special sitting of the northern Assembly will meet tomorrow which could prevent the legalisation of abortion coming into effect at midnight. However, MLAs…
Irish parishioners need to get used to the fact that their priests will increasingly be coming from abroad, one of the country’s most senior bishops has said. Archbishop Kieran O’Reilly insisted that priests and religious coming to Ireland from overseas to minister to alleviate the vocations crisis should be welcomed with open arms and helped…
Singer Andrea Corr has written of how her religious faith and that of her mother-in-law helped get her through the pain of a series of miscarriages. “I walked and I prayed,” she writes in Barefoot Pilgrimage: A Memoir by Andrea Corr. “And my mother-in-law, Pat (a blessing in herself) prayed and lit a candle for…
A Latin Mass community has announced the “very good news” they’ve bought a former Presbyterian church in Belfast, thanks to financial support from an anonymous family. The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest are jubilant as they start a “new beginning” at Fortwilliam and Macrory church. The family, from the UK, gave them an…
Michael Kelly in Rome St John Henry Newman – who was canonised at the weekend – would have opposed Britain leaving the European Union, the man charged with promoting his sainthood cause has said. Speaking in Rome on the eve of the canonisation, Fr Ignatius Harrison insisted that Newman “would have been a Remainer”.…
Claire Fitzpatrick Well-known pro-life advocate Katie Ascough has described her experience of UCD as being underlined by an “anti-religious” sentiment following their belated decision to send a representative to the canonisation of the university’s founder St John Henry Newman in Rome on October 13. The university had attributed its secularity as reason not to send…
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