Ossory’s Bishop Dermot Farrell has congratulated St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, for their momentous hurling win over the weekend. Dr Farrell said: “I am delighted for all the members of the panel who have trained so hard during the autumn, winter and into the spring. The rest of the college can bask in the reflected glory.”…
Cheques for £600 (€700) have been presented to representatives of each of the four charities who benefited from funds raised by 70 young people from across the Derry Diocese who participated in the recent Sleep Out/Stay Awake to raise awareness of, and money to prevent, homelessness in Derry. The Stay Awake/Sleep Out was held in…
An Irish charity has hit out at new figures which show that the number of people experiencing homelessness in Ireland is on a record-breaking rise with over 10,000 suffering from the epidemic. Official statistics from the Department of Housing, released yesterday, show that there is now a combined total of 10,264 people homeless and living…
EXCLUSIVE Dublin diocese looks set to divert funds previously reserved for future priestly training to pay lay pastoral parish workers instead. It is believed this initiative comes straight from Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and is to be debated this week by the Dublin priests’ council. The move comes as the shortage of trainee priests continues…
Irish Muslims should be “advocating far more loudly” for the rights of persecuted Christian Asia Bibi, who continues to be prevented from leaving Pakistan after blasphemy charges were dropped against her, a prominent Christian rights charity has said. National director of the organisation Aid to the Church in Need, Dr Michael Kinsella, has urged Muslims…
Moves towards a parish-based ‘apprenticeship’ model of priestly formation would mean the end of the national seminary at Maynooth, a former professor at the college has said. Calling for prospective clergy to study theology in Trinity College Dublin rather than at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Boston College’s Prof. Oliver Rafferty SJ told The Irish Catholic that any…
The patronage and ethos of Ireland’s schools should be determined at a local level by parents and communities, Minister for European Affairs Helen McEntee has said. While paying tribute to the Church and to the role of Church teachings in educating generations of Irish people, Ms McEntee stressed that not all children had positive experiences…
Catholic education has built a “reputation of success” because of its ethos and sense of belonging, an academic has said after Catholic schools topped Northern Ireland’s leader board. A performance guide which focused on the amount of top marks students received for the 2017/18 academic year found nine out of the top 10 schools were…
Chai Brady and Hannah Harn Missionary sisters in Ireland have said they are “very concerned” about members of their religious order in Mozambique after a cyclone devastated the country. The death toll of the natural disaster has risen to over 750 in three countries in the south of Africa. In Mozambique the fatalities are believed to be about…
The former religious affairs correspondent at RTÉ has told how Bishop Eamonn Casey tried to put pressure on him in the 1980s by urging other bishops not to talk to him. Kieron Wood – who was religious affairs correspondent for the national broadcaster from 1987-1990 – told The Irish Catholic this week that Dr Casey…
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