EXCLUSIVE ‘Delight’ at funding from Hilton Hotel fortune Efforts to promote vocations to religious life in Ireland will move up a gear in 2016 thanks to a generous grant from a US-based foundation set up by hotel billionaire Conrad Hilton, The Irish Catholic can reveal. Vocations Ireland, an umbrella organisation which helps religious orders to…
Marie-Claire Campbell (8) from Foxrock peering through some international flags as she listens to a speaker at the World Day of Prayer For Peace Mass celebrated by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Foxrock, Dublin. Photo: John McElroy
Staff Reporter Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin will address the challenges facing the family in modern Ireland at The Irish Catholic national conference later this month. It will be the archbishop’s first major address on the issue since he participated with Pope Francis in the worldwide Synod of Bishops on the family in the Vatican…
Archbishop Eamon Martin has said that claims that non-believers are being forced to baptise their children in order to get them into their local Catholic school are “hugely overstated”. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, the Primate of All-Ireland said people would be “almost forgiven for thinking every Catholic school in this country are insisting on…
BBC broadcaster Adrian Chiles has complained that the media has come to see religion only in terms of fanaticism and turned its back on millions of ordinary worshippers of all faiths. “Jesus said, ‘The meek will inherit the Earth.’ Well, they might do but they get no press along the way at all, they’re completely…
Bishop Kevin Doran has rejected an accusation by a Labour party TD that he is “scaremongering at the highest level” on the issue of abortion in the run-up to the general election. Anne Ferris, a Labour TD for Wicklow, had criticised Bishop Doran’s stance that any political attempts to legislate for terminations in cases of…
Bishop John McAreavey is representing Ireland in a delegation of bishops making a 10-day visit to vulnerable Christian communities in the Middle East this week. The Bishop of Dromore joins bishops from across Europe, North America and South Africa on the visit to communities in Gaza, Bethlehem and refugees in Jordan for the meeting of…
A well-known priest has said the trial of evangelical Pastor James McConnell for having allegedly sent “a grossly offensive” communication was a “complete waste of time and energy” that could have been better used. Pastor McConnell had been tried for anti-Islamic comments in a May 2014 sermon at the Whitewell Metropolitan Church, including saying, “Islam…
Bishop John Buckley of Cork and Ross, former Cork and Sarsfield’s hurler, watched by club Chairman, Cllr Thomas Gould and main organiser, Jason Daly, launching the St Vincent’s GAA Dave McCarthy Memorial Poc Fada at Clogheen, Cork. Photo: Mike English
RTÉ will not reconsider its decision to axe Tim Thurston’s popular Sunday morning radio programme, Gloria, despite a petition calling for its reinstatement gaining support from thousands of loyal fans. Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Head of RTÉ Lyric fm, told The Irish Catholic that he was hopeful listeners would “hear Tim again in the future” but…
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