Archbishop Thomas White RIP The death has occurred of a former priest of the Diocese of Ossory and Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Thomas A. White. The former Papal Nuncio to Rwanda, Ethiopia and New Zealand, passed away on Sunday, May 7. Archbishop White studied for the priesthood in St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, and later in Rome…

Staff Reporter Singer Dolores O’Riordan has revealed how her mother’s faith has helped her through tough times and one of the highlights of her career was taking her mum to meet Pope John Paul II. After a whirlwind period at the tops of the charts with over 40 million in sales worldwide, the lead singer…

Youth ministries working on a national level in Ireland have reported a new openness from parish priests and pastoral councils to engage with young people. Tony Foy, Executive Director of Net Ministries, told The Irish Catholic that in recent years they have had to send their youth evangelisation teams to Scotland because they couldn’t find…

Society will be impoverished if religion is barred from influencing public life, while Faith is impoverished if it is compartmentalised and treated as a purely private activity, Archbishop Eamon Martin has said. Speaking at Norwich’s University of East Anglia on the theme ‘The Church in the Public Sphere – a perspective from Ireland’, the Archbishop…

A new vocations prayer initiative was launched on Vocations Sunday, which is asking the faithful to pray for vocations on Saturday, May 13 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. Pope Francis will be in Fatima for the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima on Saturday, where he…

Galway City Council has voted to abandon its practice of opening its monthly meeting with a prayer. The vote to scrap the prayer in favour of a moment of silent reflection was tied at seven votes each until the council’s deputy chairperson, Fine Gael’s Pearce Flannery, used his casting vote to back the motion to…

In a role reversal, Knock Shrine sent out pilgrims on a charter flight to the US this week to take part in a ceremony that will see the remains of the youngest witness to the Knock apparition reinterred at Old St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. The remains of John Curry will be brought from the…

Gay Byrne blasts ‘nonsense’ law’ God is fully capable of standing up for himself and doesn’t need blasphemy laws to protect him, according to Bishop Kevin Doran. He was speaking to The Irish Catholic after a mini-storm after a minor controversy when a complaint to gardaí led to British entertainer Stephen Fry being investigated for…

Rap artist Kendrick Lamar has said he believes God gave him a platform for a greater purpose. With songs titled ‘God’ and ‘Humble’ on his latest album, the singer is not delivering the typical message from rappers but is instead focusing on his faith. “God put something in my heart to get across and that’s…

Mags Gargan and Greg Daly ‘Resentment’ an inaccurate reporting Church leaders have been urged to stand up to negative bias in the media, after a recent spate of ‘Church-bashing’ during emotive debates around abortion. This comes after Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said there was a “justified resentment” among priests, religious and committed Catholics at being “unfairly…