Snow much fun for Galway Poor Clares With heaps of snow showering Ireland recently an enclosed community of nuns couldn’t help but make the most of the weather phenomenon. The Abbess, Sr Colette said: “The fun we had over the few days just seemed natural. St Francis was known for his love of nature and there are stories told of how he…
Irish grandparents should vote to keep Ireland’s constitutional protections for the unborn, the Catholic Grandparents Association (CGA) has urged. In a notice in their March news bulletin, dedicated to Saint Joseph, the CGA said: “As Catholic grandparents we love our grandchildren; those who are born and those who are waiting to be born. We believe…
Sources close to former President Mary McAleese have said that she was “seriously misquoted” by national and international media in relation to a comment about abortion. Mrs McAleese is said to be wrongly reported by the BBC, RTÉ the Irish Independent, Breitbart the South China Morning Post and many others today, Friday March 9,…
Mary McAleese, the former President of Ireland, is slated to be the keynote speaker at the ‘5 Years to Save the Irish Church‘ conference being held on Saturday, the 19th of May at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin The conference is being organised by Columba Press, the stellar publishing house that actively strives to keep up…
A look back at our 2015 profile of the former president of Ireland, Mary McAleese Four years, almost to the day, since she retired after 14 momentous years as eighth President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, devout and questioning Catholic, stateswoman, peacemaker, Pope Francis admirer, qualified Canon lawyer, wife, mother and grandmother, is relishing the…
Nurses find it increasingly difficult to maintain a high-level of personal contact with patients given the crowded conditions in many hospitals, a chaplains’ representative has said. Fr Gerry Byrne of the National Association of Healthcare Chaplains told The Irish Catholic that many nurses and other hospital staff find themselves constantly in fire-fighting mode. He also…
A new report on child abuse has revealed that clerical abuse makes up a statistically negligible proportion of abuse in Ireland. The Garda Inspectorate’s Responding to Child Sexual Abuse states that although clerical and institutional cases are reported and investigated every year, they form “a small proportion” of the overall number of cases investigated. The…
Dr John McAreavey ought to have held off for a few months before tendering his resignation as Bishop of Dromore, an old friend and PR adviser to he bishop has said. Speaking on BBC’s Talkback, Tom Kelly said he advised the bishop against resigning, saying: “If you want to do it, do it in a…
A leading theologian has said that the Pope’s decision to institute a new feastday of Our Lady as ‘Mary, Mother of the Church’ is a way of underlining the importance of avoiding institutionalism in the Church. At the weekend, the Pope announced that the new feastday will be celebrated on the Monday after Pentecost. According…
Parishes and dioceses may not be able to divest schools without arranging for alternative forms of religious instruction, The Irish Catholic understands. The vast majority of Irish primary schools are under religious patronage, and although the Department of Education has expressed a wish to see half of the country’s Church-run schools divested from Church control…
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