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…
An inquest is set to be held into the deaths of Belfast nuns Sr Bridgett Marie Duddy and Sr Frances Forde who were killed in a road crash involving an unmarked PSNI vehicle in Newry in 2014. A preliminary inquest was held into the deaths of the two Sisters of Mercy in Belfast last week,…
The Church urges the continent to be true to its values, writes Paul Keenan “What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy and freedom? What has happened to you, Europe, the mother of peoples and nations, the mother of great men and women who upheld, and even sacrificed…
A founder of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) has expressed frustration that many Irish priests are unwilling to embrace the radical agenda of the leaders of the organisation. Redemptorist Fr Tony Flannery – who has now stepped down from the helm of the group – said the leadership of the ACP had on occasion…
With a flourish he inherited from Argentina’s legendarily populist political force, Peronism, Pope Francis from the beginning has been a vocal champion of labour and workers’ rights, backing measures such as equal pay for equal jobs between men and women, affordable housing and land, and living wages. Just last week, during his daily morning Mass,…
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The legalisation of surrogacy would be “the final blow” against the family in Italian law, the head of Italy’s bishops’ conference has said, saying surrogacy “exploits the female body” and profits from the poverty of women. Addressing members of the bishops’ conference, Genoa’s Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said under a new law civil unions are implicitly…
The group from Ardglass parish who won the treasure hunt in the Co. Down town at the Living Youth ‘Parish GIFT fun day’ on Sunday for the southern parishes in Down & Connor, to celebrate the completion of the parish-based faith programme: Connie Harney (leader), Patrick Gordon, Grainne Wills, Eimear Teggart, Kelly Lennon, Ryan Devlin…
A Slovak nun shot and wounded in South Sudan has died in a Nairobi hospital where she had been in a coma. Holy Spirit Missionary Sister Veronika Terezia Rackova, the director of Yei’s St Bakhita Medical was evacuated to Nairobi on May 17, shortly after being shot in the stomach while driving an ambulance. Soldiers…
Broadcaster Chris Donoghue has paid tribute to religious nuns and brothers for the “comfort” they provided during difficult stages of his life. The Newstalk Breakfast presenter spoke candidly on Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge of the death of his mother at 14 and battling cancer at 23. “You know what you expect somebody my age, who…
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