Pictured in maynooth are (standing from left): Fr Michael McCullagh, Rev. Conor McGee, Fr Michael Mullaney, Rev. Kevin Malcolmson, Msgr Hugh Connolly, Rev. Vincent Stapleton, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Rev. Michael Geraghty, Rev. Damien Quigley, Rev. Patrick Nugent, Rev. Noel Weir, Fr Paul Prior, Fr Willie Reynolds and Fr Michael Collins. (Seated from left) Rev. John…

Cardinal Vincent Nichols has been installed as the Chancellor of London’s St Mary’s University, Twickenham at a special service in Westminster Cathedral. Senior members of the Catholic Church, Parliamentarians, educators and Government officials witnessed Cardinal Vincent Nichols become St Mary’s inaugural Chancellor. St Mary’s Vice-Chancellor Co. Down man Francis Campbell described the event as “a…

The Dublin church which hosts the mortal remains of Matt Talbot is holding a memorial month to mark the 90th anniversary of his death. First Communion in Our Lady of Lourdes Church on May 16 opened the festivities which included a football blitz, radio Mass and novena Masses. On Saturday, June 6 a Vigil Mass…

Dean of Leighlin, Rev. Tom Gordon said the referendum shows north/south divide

Criticisms of Australian Cardinal George Pell by a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors do not reflect the role or views of the commission, a Vatican spokesman has said. The commission “does not have the task of investigating and pronouncing judgment on individual cases,” according to Father Federico Lombardi, responding to…

An image of Pope Francis being presented with an O’Neill’s Gaelic football has gone viral with GAA supporters all over the world posting the picture on social media sites. Lazio GAA, who are members of a society of over 50 sporting clubs representing the name of ‘Lazio’, were invited to an audience with the Pope…

Bishops from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have criticised governmental and United Nations failures to tackle “genocide, jihadist fundamentalism and Balkanisation” in the country. “For more than 20 years, the eastern populations have fallen victim to war and insecurity,” said the bishops from eastern South Kivu province in a pastoral message, continuing, “in 2010,…

Anti-homelessness campaigners welcome plans for rent control

Over 500 people took part in Liverpool’s biggest Marian procession in decades on Saturday May 30. Liverpool’s Archbishop Malcolm McMahon and Sisters from the Missionaries of Charity, the congregation founded by Mother Teresa, led children who had made their First Holy Communion through the city, stopping several times to sing a hymn and to say…

Staff Reporter A study that found that two thirds of people who died of probable suicide were not taking prescribed medications when they died “opens a window onto the fact that people dying from suicide are not adhering to treatment”, according to a leading psychiatrist. The NUI Galway study of 153 deaths in the west between…