Staff reporter The popular Augustinian retreat centre, Orlagh, in Dublin is for sale with an asking price of €2.5 million. The Augustinians have been on the site since 1872 when they acquired the property for use as the novitiate for those who wished to join their ranks. For more than a decade, however, Orlagh has been…

A Cork-based political activist has described as “a complete bolt from the blue” a decision to remove him from Cobh cathedral’s roster of readers because of his membership of the Social Democrats, who advocate the removal of the Eighth (Life Equality) Amendment. Cobh’s onetime Fianna Fáil cumann secretary Ken Curtin learned after Mass on Sunday,…

Hopes have been raised that up to five new Catholic schools could be opened over the next two years. The Irish Catholic can confirm that CEIST, a Catholic schools trust founded by five religious orders, are applying for patronage of up to five of the nine new post primary schools opening next year and in…

The Parish of Ss Mary and Peter in Arklow, Co. Wicklow continues its celebration of the Year of Mercy with a ‘Festival of Faith’ next week. The festival is spread over nine consecutive nights with a wide range and variety of speakers to encourage people in their faith and to emphasise the need for healing,…

The final tranche of reports from the national safeguarding board was released on Wednesday, May 4, ahead of new guidelines for safeguarding practice and procedures being introduced. Thirty bodies were reviewed in the final tranche, bringing to 164 the total number of reviews published by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.…

School children from Our Lady of Vietnam Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, perform a liturgical dance for the call to prayer during the US’s 14th annual Asian and Pacifi c Island Catholics Marian Pilgrimage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Photo: CNS

Students from schools across the Archdiocese of Tuam performing at the Awakening 2016 concert in aid of Pieta House in the Sports Centre in Castlebar, Co. Mayo last week. Photo: Fr Stephen Farragher

Michael O’Loughlin With the general election matchup coming into focus, some Catholic leaders in the US find themselves scrambling to figure out what to make of a race between one candidate whose views on immigration clash with decades of Catholic pro-immigration work, and another who supports same-sex marriage and expanded access to abortion and contraception. Whereas…

The proposed ‘citizens’ convention’ on repealing the right to life from the Constitution is a ruse to allow the Government to deny responsibility for its recommendations, Elphin’s Bishop Kevin Doran has warned. The bishop’s comments followed an announcement that the Fine Gael-led minority government’s Programme for Partnership includes a commitment to establishing a ‘citizens’ convention’…

The Church reacts to a long-predicted crisis, writes Paul Keenan