The Irish College in Rome is to have its numbers significantly boosted with the announcement that 15 seminarians from Saint John Vianney College (SJV) Seminary in Minnesota are to transfer to Rome for the completion of their formation studies. The Board of Trustees of the Irish College, chaired by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, approved…
Spiritan missionaries in Brazil have described the Rio Olympics as a positive step for the country despite recent media coverage of protests there. Speaking to The Irish Catholic this week as the 2016 Games were underway, Fr Seán Doyle, who has ministered in Brazil for 43 years, acknowledged that there had been some local opposition…
About 230 cyclists took part in a 60km cycle from Clonmel to Tramore on Sunday, August 6, to commemorate a much-loved local priest and raise money for charity. The Fr Colm O’Brien Memorial Cycle, now in its seventh year, began at St Peter and Paul’s Church in Clonmel and concluded at Tramore GAA club, where…
The National Traditional Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine will take place on Saturday September 3. The day’s pilgrimage will commence with a Missa Cantata at 2 p.m., followed by Stations of the Cross and Benediction. All events take place in the parish church of Knock. The episcopally-appointed spiritual director and leader of the pilgrimage is Fr…
Staff reporter A biography of Daniel Mannix, the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne, has scooped a major literary award in Australia. Penned by 85-year-old Brenda Niall, who knew Dr Mannix during his tenure in Melbourne, Mannix has won the National Biography Prize, worth Aus$25,000. It beat off competition from six other biographies shortlisted by the State Library…
One of the world’s largest Christian charities, World Vision, has been rocked by allegations that its funds in the Gaza Strip have been funnelled to the militant group Hamas. Since June, the charity body has been lobbying the Israeli government over the arrest of its Gaza director, Mohammad El Halabi, who was detained without explanation…
Christian community under threat in the Philippines Christians on the Filipino island of Jolo have called on Muslim leaders to help in tackling Islamic fundamentalism in the wake of attacks and threats against the community there. According to reports emerging from the island, at least one Christian has died in an attack, while Christians have been threatened by radical Muslim groups.…
A Catholic prelate in South Sudan has urged the international community not to forget the ongoing conflict in that nation. Warning that one immediate result of ignoring South Sudan now will be an increase in “the tide of refugees reaching Europe’s shores”, Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura- Yambio called on world powers to…
Christians in Iraq have marked the second anniversary of the emergence of so-called Islamic State (ISIS) with prayers for peace and a return to the land they were forced to flee. Led by Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, Christians recalled the “Mosul tragedy (June 10-17, 2014) and Nineveh Plain catastrophe (August 6/7, 2014)” and prayed…
French authorities have moved to close down 20 mosques among a range of measures aimed at tackling radicalisation of Muslims. In the wake of a series of brutal attacks in France in recent weeks, including the savage murder of Fr Jacques Hamel in Normandy, the country’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazenueve announced that 20 mosques known…
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