“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…
In his homily at a packed Sunday Mass in Newman Church St Stephen’s Green, celebrating St John Henry Newman’s Feast Day, Fr Gary Chamberland, CSC, said the conversion of St John Henry Newman “gave him [Newman] no comfort” and Newman didn’t come from Anglicanism for emotional reasons or a sense of welcome. “He came because…
After decades of decline, signs suggest that Ireland’s younger generation might be leading a quiet return to faith. Research from the Bible Society and the recent Iona Institute poll points to a stabilisation and, in some places, a rising of church attendance among Gen Z. Exploring what this means for the future, the Iona Institute…
The woman convicted of gun offences who was employed in Catherine Connolly’s Dáil office in 2019 was invited to address an Oireachtas committee in 2024, it has emerged. Ursula Ní Shionnáin – who holds a PhD in sociolinguistics- addressed TDs and Senators on the Oireachtas Committee for the Gaeltacht and the Irish Language and discussed…
On 9 October 2025, The Irish Catholic published an article which purported to quote Maria Steen and to summarise her views as contained in an opinion piece published under her name on the same date. The Irish Catholic accepts that its article misrepresented Mrs Steen’s views and inadvertently falsely attributed remarks to her that she…
A vast and joyful congregation gathered under autumn skies on October 5 to mark a momentous milestone — the Golden Jubilee of the restoration of the historic Holycross Abbey in Co. Tipperary. The ancient stones of the Abbey seemed to glow with renewed life as Archbishop Kieran O’Reilly, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, described the…
The Church of the Holy Family Ardfinnan will welcome a first class relic of St Carlo Acutis, who was canonised on September 7, to their shrine honouring the young saint. The installation Mass will take place at the Church of the Holy Family in Ardfinnan on Sunday, October 12 at 12pm, and will be celebrated…
Catholic schools in Ireland can live their ethos fully while remaining inclusive, according to Dr Áine Moran, co-founder of Folláine a new catholic education leadership service. “Catholic schools can be Catholic,” Dr Moran told The Irish Catholic. “It’s perfectly doable to express the faith fully and be radically hospitable. But too often leaders, without formation,…
Loreto schools marked historical milestones last week with celebrations in Ireland. Loreto Secondary School Bray commemorated 175 years with Mass and a tea gathering on October 2. On the same day, Loreto High School Beaufort, Rathfarnham celebrated its first centenary with current and past pupils. This year also marks the 150th anniversary of the first…
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