Ability to ‘see’ can dissolve racism – Ghana cardinal The Zulu way of greeting, in which people greet others by saying “Sawubona”, meaning “I see you”, points a way towards how we can dissolve racism, Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has said. Speaking at ‘Black and White in America: How deep the divide?’, a conference…

The late Nancy Reagan was a “very quiet and unassuming person”, the priest who accompanied the Reagans during their 1984 visit to President Ronald Reagan’s ancestral home has said. “I met her twice,” Fr Éanna Condon told The Irish Catholic, “the first time in the rose garden of White House a couple of years before…

A report on the abuse by clergy of hundreds of Pennsylvania children over several decades and the best picture Oscar win for Spotlight have “brought painful, but important, reminders that we must remain vigilant in our efforts to protect children from the scourge of abuse”, the head of the US bishops’ child protection agency has…

Youth for Life NI, Precious Life and members of Queen’s Pro-Life Society, in union with Rock for Life and National Pro-Life Chalk Day, were out on the streets of Belfast spreading the pro-life message in Queen’s Quarter, Cathedral Quarter and near the Marie Stopes centre.

Australian Cardinal George Pell has promised to work with a group of abuse survivors to help support healing and protection programmes and prevent suicide among victims. “One suicide is too many. And there have been many such tragic suicides,” he said, continuing, “I commit myself to working with the group to try to stop this…

The serious challenge posed to Catholic schools by a proposed new curriculum on religious education will be the theme for a special iCatholic livestream early next week. On Monday, March 14 at 8pm iCatholic will host a live panel discussion about the NCCA proposal to introduce Education about Religions and Beliefs and Ethics into the…

Catholics should encourage a “vigorous debate” among India’s intellectuals “about the danger of surrendering the future of the country to the aggressive elements in society”, Church leaders have said. Speaking in Bangalore at the 32nd plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, Cardinal Baselios Cleemis said most Hindus do not seek to impose…

A politician in the Isle of Man has apologised for being “lax” after he was accused of plagiarising large extracts of an article opposing same-sex marriage that appeared in The Irish Catholic newspaper. Zac Hall, who used the allegedly plagiarised text in a speech against same-sex marriage in the Isle of Man’s House of Keys,…

Survivors of sexual abuse who have summoned the courage to come forward have taught us many things, but one clear truth is that, in terms of its consequences, abuse is not an event, but more akin to a permanent condition. It’s not that abuse happens at a specific time and place, and then is over.…

The canonisation of Mother Teresa will be formally approved on March 15, the Vatican has announced. The Albania-born nun, who studied briefly in Rathfarnham, Dublin, when she was 18 before moving to India, and who established a community in west Belfast’s Ballymurphy in 1971, is to be canonised along with four others.  The March 15…