Over 1,500 gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, with a Mass celebrated Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston. Cardinal O’Malley followed in the footsteps of his Boston predecessor, Cardinal Richard Cushing, who dedicated the cathedral in 1965.  In his homily Cardinal O’Malley said “in…

How much worse would the migrant crisis be without the Church, asks Paul Keenan

St Aidan’s parish in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford is holding a parish walk in solidarity with all persecuted Christians. Organisers are asking participants to wear orange, in reference to the orange jumpsuits worn by victims of beheadings, as “a small but important sign that we stand with those who suffer for their faith and walk with…

It’s premature to judge China’s ‘warm’ attitude towards the Vatican, writes John L. Allen

The Government needs to “face up” to the crisis of homelessness, Bro. Kevin Crowley of the Capuchin Day Centre has warned. Criticising as “appalling” the current lack of social housing for homeless families in Dublin in particular, the leading campaigner called on the Government to urgently invest in housing. “It’s up to the Government to…

Stance has eroded goodwill, TD claims

The Bishop of Cork & Ross has called for the exhumation of the remains of Little Nellie, so that she can be reburied in a location allowing access for devotees to pray at her grave. Little Nellie is buried in the now derelict Good Shepherd Convent in Sunday’s Well, Cork which has gone into receivership.…

Participants at the Youth 2000 Summer Festival, Katie Ascough, Kevin McElroy (a seminarian in Maynooth) and Clare McCarthy share a bag of chips during a break in the festivities in the Cistercian College in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary at the weekend. 

About 100 people over five days attended Music Ministry Together, a new five-day summer school held at the Cistercian College in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary for youth and adult leaders who have a passion for liturgical music and the desire to serve as ministers in their parishes, schools and communities.

Catholics have a responsibility to offer “sanctuary and welcome” to asylum seekers fleeing war-torn parts of the world, the United Nation’s special envoy on migration has said. Speaking at this year’s novena at Knock, Peter Sutherland insisted there is “no room for ambiguity, let alone opposition amongst Christians, to the phenomenon of migration”. “Apart from…