Lisette Carr went to the US and heard the Pope invigorate a whole generation

Notre Dame University has begun work on its new education centre at Kylemore Abbey. The prestigious Catholic university, located close to Chicago, has strong links with Ireland where it has a centre in Dublin’s Merrion Square, 2000 of its students have studied since 1998, and its famous football team, the ‘Fighting Irish’, played at the…

The Pope has been hailed for prompting an end to the nation’s conflict, writes Paul Keenan

The Chairman of the Pro-Life Campaign is to speak on ‘Repealing the Eighth Amendment: What would Blessed Titus Brandsma do?’ on Wednesday, October 7 at 6.30pm in the Central Catholic Library, Merrion Square, Dublin 2.  Dr Joe McCarroll will speak at the first of a number of talks to be held at the venue organised…

Coup leaders agree to restore power to deposed Burkina Faso leader Leaders of a September 16 coup in Burkina Faso are to restore to power the deposed president Michel Kafando. The army and the Régiment Sécurité Présidentielle (RSP) have agreed that the latter should withdraw from their positions in the capital city Ouagadougou, while the…

The winners of The Irish Catholic competition for tickets to hear Philip Scott sing in the National Concert Hall on October 4 are Brid Dillon from Ennis, Co. Clare, and Pamela Doyle, from Terenure, Dublin 12. Philip Scott will be singing the songs of Count John McCormack.

The Filipino Church will continue to stand with the country’s tribal communities who are victims of abuse, persecution, and extrajudicial killings, according to Manila’s auxiliary bishop Broderick Pabillo. Dr Pabillo had been asked to “actively intervene to end the militarisation of the areas where the tribal communities live”, and for the Church to facilitate the…

Irish bishops are set to discuss controversial Achill House of Prayer founder Christina Gallagher at a meeting next week, The Irish Catholic understands.  It is understood that the bishops, who will gather at Maynooth next week for this year’s autumn General Meeting, have been sent a briefing document on the movement behind the self-proclaimed visionary.…

Pope Francis has picked Bro. Guy Consolmagno SJ as the new director of the Vatican Observatory. A planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids with the observatory since 1993, Bro. Consolmagno studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lectured there and at Harvard College Observatory before joining the Jesuit order in 1989.  In…

Singer and actor Keith Duffy has thanked God for the “mini-miracle” that is his daughter Mia.  The 15-year-old daughter of the Boyzone star was diagnosed with autism when she was 18 months old.  However, Mr Duffy has spoken out about the “unbelievable” progression his daughter has made after she received “amazing” Junior Certificate results last…