The Diocese of Cloyne and the Diocese of Waterford are co-hosting the inaugural ‘Knockadoon Boys Faith Camp’ for boys aged between 12 and 16 from Sunday, June 5 at 5pm to Saturday, June 11 at 1pm. The camp is a one-week (six nights), stay-on-site, full-board stay at the Dominican camp in the pictureque sea-side village…

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has called on the Government to create a new facility specifically and exclusively to detain young adults in order to ensure their humane treatment. A report launched on Tuesday, ‘Developing Inside: Transforming Prison for Young Adults’, recommends that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone, be…

Priests and other parish workers should make time for parishioners, rather than erecting barriers, Pope Francis has warned. He said deacons, in particular, are called to be servants who set aside their own self-serving plans and are generous with their lives. A servant “is not a slave to his own agenda” but rather is always…

Staff reporter Manchester United has turned to a man of faith to help revive the club’s flagging fortunes in hiring José Mourinho as its new manager. The former Chelsea boss, who is a Catholic, has previously spoken about his prayer life, revealing his firm faith in God.  The father-of-two, dubbed the ‘special one’ by adoring fans,…

Holy See/university thaw is welcomed The restoration of friendly relations between the Holy See and the Islamic University of al Azhar has been welcomed by the Coptic Catholic Patriarch. Expressing a hope that the friendly encounter between Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed al Tayyib “will give new vigour to the processes of collaboration and integration that Christian and Muslim…

The man who presided over a surge in vocations for the Dominican order here has warned that many potential candidates for the priesthood are being cast aside because they don’t fit a particular mould.  Fr Gerard Dunne OP, who was the Director of Vocations for the Irish Dominicans from 2000-2014, told The Irish Catholic that…

A Columbian bishop has offered the aid of his diocese in searching for a missing journalist. Salud Hernández-Mora, a journalist with El Tiempo newspaper, has not been heard of since May 21; military and police searches have found no trace of her.  “We are very familiar with the territories, places and paths, we know the…

An Irish priest who was part of the commission that advised Pope John Paul II on the possibility of women deacons in 2002 has welcomed Pope Francis’ call for further study on the issue. Fr Tom Norris, who previously served as a member of the International Theological Commission, said the issue of women deacons “needs…

Consultant’s volte-face in Vatican court hearing A former consultant to a pontifical commission who denied to a Vatican court that she leaked documents about Vatican financial reform admitted to sending the documents when originally interrogated, a Vatican policeman has said. Stefano DeSantis, an officer investigating the matter, testified on May 24 that Francesca Chaouqui, one of five people on trial…