Fr Gerry Kane, Parish Priest in Harold’s Cross in Dublin planted and blessed a tree in an ecumenical ceremony with Russian Orthodox priest Fr Mikhail Nasonov at St Clare’s Primary School to celebrate ‘World Day of Prayer for Creation’. They are being assisted by: Esmé Cregan, Liadán MacMenamin, Eniola Afolabi, Sophia Baltazar, Daragh McGeever and…

John Allen reports from Nigeria on inter-faith relations

Over 100 parishioners took part in the annual Tara to Slane pilgrim walk, organised by Navan Parish at the weekend. The pilgrimage, first started in the Jubilee Year of 2000, recalls the lighting of the Paschal Fire on the Hill of Slane by St Patrick and symbolises the path of faith as we walk towards…

The Vatican still faces challenges in Cuba, writes Paul Keenan

Priest says Govt inaction is an ‘embarrassment’

Each year pilgrims gather on the Sunday after September 25, the feast day of St Finbarr, patron saint of the Diocese of Cork, to honour him and ask for his blessing. This year pilgims will gather on Sunday, September 27 in Gougane Barra to celebrate ‘Gougane Sunday’. Rosary will be recited in the oratory at…

The Government has been urged to raise the issue of Christian persecution in China with that nation’s Ambassador to Ireland. As a drive to demolish churches and crosses continues in the province of Zhejiang, which to date has seen some 1,200 crosses cut down from Christian properties, Fianna Fáil’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Brendan Smith…

Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, September 6 at 1.30pm in St Aengus’ Church in Burt, Co. Donegal for motor bikers. This will be a time to pray and remember all those bikers who have lost their lives in recent times and a time to ask for God’s blessing. After the Mass all the bikes…

Three members of the Dominican congregation in Drogheda, Co. Louth marched to the order’s headquarters in Dublin last weekend bearing a massive petition calling for their church to remain open. Twenty-seven parishioners joined in the 10-hour walk with the Dominicans as they carried some 20,000 signatures to the Dominican priory in Tallaght, Dublin, urging a…

The Diocese of Down & Connor is hosting its second Faith and Life Convention on Saturday, September 26 in Our Lady and St Patrick’s College, Knock, Belfast beginning at 10am. The Faith and Life Convention is a forum for people to gather together and to take part in a range of conversations about the meaning…