Louise Hanlon Faith, friendship and fun were the order of the day at the annual Catholic Young Adults Conference which took place in All Hallows College, Dublin at the weekend. The conference, organised by the Legion of Mary, had as its theme ‘Know Mary, Know Jesus’ and attracted over 200 attendees from various parts of…

The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) has issued an appeal to commercial owners on Dublin’s northside for a retail unit to replace a charity shop destroyed by fire. The Vincent’s shop in Coolock Village Centre was engulfed in flames in the early hours of Monday morning, causing structural damage which will result in the…

The African Chaplaincy in the Archdiocese of Dublin celebrated its 10-year anniversary over the weekend with music, praise and worship. The celebrations began on Saturday with a choral night in Westmanstown Conference Centre, Blanchardstown which featured praise and worship full of African flavour, in thanksgiving for the life of the chaplaincy in the Irish Church.…

EXCLUSIVE Tens of millions of people would lose their lives in a matter of hours if the US pushes for a military response in Korea, an Irish missionary who has spent almost 50 years working with Koreans has warned. As tensions rise following nuclear weapons tests by North Korea, Fr Denis Monaghan SSC told The…

The new Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, Titular Archbishop of Novic, presented his credentials to President Michael D. Higgins at a ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin on Tuesday, after which he inspected the guard of honour. Photo: Maxwells

Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin places his zucchetto on a pupil during a visit to the Holy Family Campus in Portlaoise parish where 1,400 children attend the senior and junior schools.

A young festivalgoer visits Trócaire’s stand at the Electric Picnic music festival in Stradbally at the weekend, where team members raised awareness of the current hunger crisis in East Africa under the theme ‘Real News’.

Almost 100 women who access an Irish charity’s services are victims of sex trafficking, according to a new report. Ruhama has helped vulnerable women involved in prostitution in Ireland for over 25 years, and its 2016 Annual Report shows they assisted 304 women of 37 nationalities. The charity was founded as a joint initiative of…

The latest effort to answer Pope Francis’ call for the Church to “seek people out”, has been hailed a success following a huge crowd at the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin’s ‘Picnic in Punchestown’. In what is believed to be the first Irish diocesan picnic, over 4,000 people attended Punchestown racecourse on Sunday, including a…

UTV presenter Paul Clark has taken to social media to reject claims that children with Down Syndrome lead unhappy lives. The remark comes after a Twitter user said: “It’s unfathomable how anyone would want to put a soul through life suffering with Down’s. Religious driven madness.” The television presenter, who has a deep Christian faith…