Young parishioners in Co. Wexford will be given a unique Christmas gift at Masses on Sunday December 15 in Glynn and Barntown. Each child will receive an olive wood Christmas decoration for their Christmas tree at home – a decoration from Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ which was blessed at the original manger in early…
A leading social justice campaigner has described the failure to use an historic building in Dublin for homeless accommodation that is costing taxpayers almost €200,000 a year as “a mess”. Dublin City Council are paying €16,250 a month for a property on 21 Aungier Street in the city centre despite not being able to convert…
RTÉ has “unreservedly” apologised to writer and broadcaster Kevin Myers after the station wrongly accused him of being a Holocaust denier. The false claim was aired in 2017 after Mr Myers was dismissed as a columnist with the Sunday Times newspaper after an online campaign accusing him of anti-Semitism – despite the fact that he…
A pro-life group have launched the ‘Repeal Section 9’ Campaign, which urges people in Northern Ireland to vote only for pro-life candidates in the upcoming Westminster Election. Precious Life launched their campaign this week, which aims to put pressure on political representatives in Northern Ireland to state their commitment to repealing the Westminster-imposed abortion law…
Sr Consilio Fitzgerald, the founder of Cuan Mhuire, was this week presented with the Oireachtas Human Dignity Award at a ceremony in Leinster House. It comes 53 years after she began work from a small room in the Convent of Mercy in Athy, Co. Kildare with people experiencing addiction. Today, there are five treatment centres…
The number of Irish people who say they pray every day has increased and presents an opportunity for the Church to grasp, according to experts. The recently-published European Social Survey 2018 found that while Mass attendance continued to decline, there was an increase of 2.1% in the number of people who say they pray every…
The body set up by the State to investigate claims of abuse in religious-run institutions has admitted that its final report dramatically over-estimated the number of children in the homes. In a statement this week, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse said the number of children housed in the institutions was approximately 42,000 –…
There is still relentless persecution of Christians who suffer across the world due to violence and intolerance, with South and East Asia becoming ‘hotspots’, a new report has found. Aid to the Church in Need’s ‘Persecuted and Forgotten’, An International report on Christians persecuted and martyred for their Faith 2017-2019’, found that some Christian communities…
Weekly collection figures at Masses in Dublin continued to fall last year, fresh figures reveal. A total of €5,854,362 was raised across the diocese for the weekly ‘Share’ collection during 2018 – down from €6,330,958 the previous year, a fall of almost 8%. At the same time expenditure from the Share collection – which supports…
Dublin communities must stand up against “evil” gangland violence and not stay silent, a parish priest has said after a young man was killed in Coolock on Sunday. Fr Bryan Shortall PP of Priorswood Parish condemned those behind the shooting of Eoin Boylan (22) in the garden of his home on Clonsaugh Avenue. He warned…
Chai Brady