The Pro Life Campaign hosted its annual national conference last weekend in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, under the theme ‘Pathways to Progress – Working for a Pro-Life Future’. The event, chaired by broadcaster Wendy Grace, gathered hundreds of activists determined to keep hope alive for Ireland’s pro-life movement in the years following the repeal of…
“The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion – protected under Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – is not only under pressure, in many countries it is disappearing,” warned Regina Lynch, Executive President of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International and native of Co. Tyrone. Ms Lynch expressed…
An Post will issue a new commemorative stamp next week marking the centenary of the ordination of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands of lives during the Second World War. From 1942, while serving in the Vatican, Msgr O’Flaherty organised an underground network known as ‘The Organisation’ which helped more than 6,500…
The exhausted parish priest of Gaza has thanked Irish parishioners for their prayers, support and solidarity during more than two years of war in the region. Argentine-born Fr Gabriel Romanelli IVE said the Christian community in the war-torn territory will play their part in rebuilding their lives, as well as the physical infrastructure. Speaking from…
The government’s budget has used sticky plasters on the housing crisis where major surgery is needed the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has warned adding that the greed of developers has been rewarded while the young consider emigration. “Once again, the government have prioritised the wants—not the needs—of developers. The real boon came to…
Fr Darren Brennan opened the doors of St Paul’s Parish Centre in Belfast and welcomed parishioners and community members to ask questions about the faith as part of a lay initiative for the Belfast Rosary Festival, which took place last week. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr Brennan shared that around 50-60 people attended the…
Dublin Diocese has applied for planning permission for a major renovation of the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin’s City Centre. The planning application lodged as “Applicant – St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Parish C/O Schools & Parishes of Diocese of Dublin (RC) Pro-Cathedral House, 83 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1” requests planning for development of the Church, which is a…
Irish Bishops have welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, expressing cautious hope that the fragile truce will hold and lead to a lasting peace. Speaking last Sunday after the ceasefire came into effect, Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin prayed through the intercession of St Oliver Plunkett for the “success of the…
“Love must become a mission,” said Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ, welcoming Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You), Pope Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Exhortation. The document, he said, “moves us from places of comfort to works of compassion and service,” calling Christians to recognise Christ in the poor and confront the structural causes of poverty. Across…
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 10 and was praised for keeping “the flame of democracy burning amid growing darkness.” Born in Caracas to a wealthy family, Machado co-founded the civil organisation Súmate in 2002 to promote transparency. Her family’s steel business was expropriated in 2010, before she…