A remembrance service was held last Sunday for those who died in the Omagh bombing 19 years ago. The prayer service took place in a memorial garden in the Co. Tyrone town to remember the 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, who were killed in the Real IRA attack on August 15, 1998.…

Staff Reporter The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) has been forced to amend a media statement after inaccurately describing members of the permanent diaconate as laypeople rather than clerics. In a press release issued last week, headed ‘Association of Catholic Priests Statement on the Permanent Lay Diaconate’, the ACP leadership committed themselves to backing Fr…

Attempts to compel priests to reveal information about abuse learned in Confession would be legally unsustainable and probably contrary to Ireland’s Constitution, a leading expert on constitutional law has said. “If you’re given an undertaking at some point and then act to your detriment as a result of that undertaking, the law shouldn’t turn around…

A Franciscan missionary priest has been posthumously honoured by the Zimbabwean Government for his contributions to achieving independence in the country and his subsequent charitable work there. Fr Paschal Slevin, who died in Dublin on May 1 this year at the age of 83, was given the highest honour reserved for foreigners, The Royal Order…

Dublin’s first Cycle of Light in aid of NCBI The National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) will hold its first ‘Cycle of Light’ event on August 25. This event will see 100 people cycle into the darkness of night for sight loss. From 8.30pm until dark participants will cycle from Dalkey to Howth…

Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, the new Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, arrived at Dublin Airport on Monday where he was greeted by several Irish bishops including Cardinal Séan Brady. Archbishop Eamon Martin is currently on pilgrimage in Fatima and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is on summer vacation. Photo: John McElroy

The handover of the Mission Light from the oldest SVD priest in Ireland, Fr Norman Davitt, 70 years of priesthood (1947-2017), to the youngest, Fr Joseph Yang who was ordained last month.

The outdoor candlelit procession at Knock Shrine, during the opening night of the annual Knock novena on Monday. Photo: Stephen Farragher

EXCLUSIVE Irish missionaries have vowed that they will stay with the people of Venezuela in the midst of a deepening political crisis and widespread food shortages that has seen some people forced to scavenge through rubbish tips for food. This is despite the fact that one of the Irish Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC)…

Ireland’s experience in tackling clerical child abuse is being acknowledged around the world, according to the CEO of the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church. Teresa Devlin told The Irish Catholic how the board was asked earlier this year to address Australia’s royal commission on institutional abuse and explain the…