The section of the Charities Act which protects against the sale of bogus Mass cards can now be enforced following the withdrawal of an appeal to the Supreme Court by a Mass card trader. The Irish Catholic first raised concerns about so-called trafficking in Masses in 2008 when it emerged that many pre-signed Mass cards…
Four men engaged in religiously-aggravated harassment of and violence against a church-going co-worker on a number of occasions between 2014 and 2015, York Crown Court has heard. The teenager had been working as an apprentice with Direct Interior Solutions, a shopfitting firm managed by one of the defendants On one occasion, the Catholic teenager was…
Archbishop Eamon Martin warns of pressure to radically redefine Ireland’s social agenda
Fr Niall Coll encourages Catholic schools “to prioritise the importance of Religious Education”
“What’s important to me is that it emphasises the gravity of being negligent in the area of child protection”
Bishop John Buckley ordained Fr Pat Nugent for the Diocese of Cork & Ross on Saturday in Church of the Real Presence, Bishopstown. A native of Co. Clare, Fr Pat has spent most of his life in Cork where he taught at secondary and third level before studying for the priesthood at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth.…
Catholics in the North foudn to be more likely than Protestants to vote to remain within the European Union
Time to ‘draw line in sand’ on abortion stance
Parish priest outlines necessities of Government investments in “essential services” like broadband
Breda Keaveney and Geraldine Duane, members of Glenamaddy Pastoral Council with Fr Paddy Mooney PP at the entrance to the new Green Way Walk at Frass/Englishtown, Glenamaddy, Co. Galway which will be blessed on Sunday, June 12 as part of the Laudato Si celebrations in the parish.
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Cathal Barry
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