This summer the Parish of Horeswood Ballykelly in Co. Wexford is hosting two significant events. The celebration of the bicentenary of St Brigid’s Church in Ballykelly will take place at 11.30am on Sunday, June 28 with a Mass of thanksgiving celebrated by Bishop Denis Brennan. The bishop will also plant a tree to mark the…

Staff Reporter Funny-man Jim Gaffigan has spoken of his family’s firm faith ahead of the launch of his new TV series chronicling their lives as Catholics. The US stand-up comedian, actor and author said his faith is “very associated with the notion of mercy”. “I understand that there is something greater than myself that does…

The annual celebration to commemorate St Oliver Plunkett in Drogheda on July 5 will commence with the procession of a first class relic of St Oliver from Holy Family Church, Ballsgrove (south of the river Boyne) at 3pm and proceed three kilometres to the National Shrine of St Oliver in St Peter’s Church, West Street,…

Bro. Kevin Crowley and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke with cyclists taking part in the The Great Escape charity cycle 2015 sponsored by Top Oil to raise funds for The Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless in Dublin City Centre. Cyclists left Dublin last Friday to arrive in Belmullet, Co. Mayo on Saturday, June 13.…

Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee A. Piche of St. Paul and Minneapolis, just days after criminal and civil charges were filed against the archdiocese for alleged failure to protect three boys from sexual abuse by a former priest of the archdiocese. Curtis Wehmeyer, who was…

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) has warned that many one-parent families will be “hit hard financially” when the next stage of the Government’s One Parent Family Reform programme is implemented at the beginning of next month. From July 2, families who receive One-Parent Family Payments (OFP), where their youngest child reaches seven…

Union flags were erected outside a Catholic church in east Belfast near the scene of increased violence in recent weeks. The flags were raised outside St Matthew’s Church on the Newtownards Road over the weekend by a group of men in a cherry picker. Houses in the nearly nationalist Short Strand were attacked with paint…

Vatican to issue guidelines to bishops’ conferences about the phenomenon

Female deacons should be part of the discussion

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