Pictured celebrating Dublin’s win over Kerry in the All Ireland final at the weekend are supporters (l-r) Sr Gwen Collins, Sr Majella McCarthy, Sr Anne Malone, Sr Monica Lawless of the Carmelite Monastery, team is a cousin of Sr Monica.

An upcoming ‘cluster mission’ in Galway is set to give parishioners a taste of what the future holds for the Church in Ireland. Glenamaddy and Williamson Parish Priest, Fr Paddy Mooney, said the mission will “give people a greater awareness of their need to travel to neighbouring parishes” for Mass in a time with fewer…

Citizens hail a ‘revolutionary’ Pope, writes Paul Keenan

St Patrick’s Church, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon will be a lively spot in the early hours of Saturday, September 26 as pilgrim walkers from all parts of the Elphin diocese gather to begin their 20 mile walk to Ireland’s National Shrine in Knock. This is Elphin diocese’s second time to make this pilgrim walk,  once again…

Armagh Diocesan Vocations Commission are presenting three more evenings of “Great People, Great Stories, Come and Listen” during the autumn. The first evening takes place on Thursday, October 8 in Kilsaran Legion of Mary Centre at 8pm. Speakers are Sr Julie McGoldrick and Fr Ryan McAleer. On Thursday, October 15 at 8pm in The Synod…

The Pro Life Campaign has said there is nothing reassuring about Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s refusal to commit to a referendum on Ireland’s constitutional protection for the unborn if Fine Gael is re-elected to government. PLC Deputy Chairperson Cora Sherlock said “The Taoiseach never actually said he was opposed to a referendum to dismantle the Eighth…

Catholic leaders in Nepal have welcomed the visit of Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, to southern Asia. The cardinal’s visit is rounding off a trip that has also seen him visiting Bangladesh and India’s Archdiocese of Kolkata, and sees him visiting camps for survivors of April’s earthquake as…

Next week’s National Ploughing Championships offer the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin a unique opportunity to “reach out” to the masses according to Bishop Denis Nulty.  “It is very important to reach out and for us to be in the field or in the marketplace,” Bishop Nulty told The Irish Catholic. “With over 279,000 people…

Europe’s bishops call for European solution As the European Union is founded on the solidarity of Europeans, so the current refugee crisis should be recognised as a common challenge that needs a common solution, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) has said. Describing as “unacceptable” the attempts by some countries to evade their responsibilities, the…

Fr Mike Shea, an Irish-American Redemptorist, has made an appeal for funding as more and more children orphaned by HIV/AIDS arrive at his orphanage in Thailand. Fr Shea, whose grandparents were from Ventry in Co. Kerry, is ministering to 145 girls and boys of all ages in Sarnelli House Orphanage, near Nong Khai. Thailand is…