Claims that human right treaties allow a right to abortion are completely without foundation the Pro-Life Campaign (PLC) has told the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Speaking in Geneva on Tuesday at a discussion about the right to life section of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Cora Sherlock of the PLC pointed…

Fr John Carroll, parish priest of Ferns, blesses the boats at Ferrycarrig, Co. Wexford before the annual regatta organised annually in the South East.  

A sign saying, "Good news: Jesus Loves You," is seen as Pope Francis arrives to greet participants in the Renewal of the Spirit meeting in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican July 3. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Nerves are setting in for the administrator of Carlow Cathedral, as he prepares for a parachute jump to raise money for the parish fund. Fr John Cummins and parishioners Mark Carpenter, Marie Therese Byrne and Jo Brecknell, are making a tandem skydive at Clonbullogue Airfield in Co. Offaly on July 18. “I have never done…

One billion opportunities Growth in global tourism is an opportunity even more than a challenge for the Church, according to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples. A statement issued in advance of World Tourism Day, which will take place on September 27, noted that there some 1 billion tourists…

A senior politician has defended the right of RTÉ to broadcast the Angelus as a “moment of reflection”. Speaking in the Dáil, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin insisted that it was not possible to “excise out of existence Christian beliefs and the need for reflection”. “I would have believed that what now stands for the…

The oldest Irish person in history has died aged 113. Co. Clare native Kathleen Snavely passed away at a nursing home in New York on Monday. In an interview, she recalled arriving in the US with just a few dollars to her name. “I remember when I had nothing,” she said. “I just thank God…

During a visit to Knock Shrine the Connaught rugby team dropped in to meet the team at the HUB youth ministry centre, as they opened up for the summer season.

A case being taken against RTÉ by a former Catholic archbishop who had alleged that he was defamed by the broadcaster has been settled at the High Court. Richard Burke claims that material used in RTÉ’s Mission to Prey programme broadcast in May 2011 wrongly branded him as a paedophile. RTÉ had denied defamation. However,…

“The minimum wage has to move towards minimum living wages level”