The annual ‘Gone But Not Forgotten’ bikers memorial Mass was celebrated in the Sacred Heart Church, Clones, Co. Monaghan. A number of motorbikes, including a Honda CBR 600 race bike belonging to Richard Briton who died 10 years ago, were on display on the altar. A large number of bikers and their families from across…

A Pilgrim prays to Archbishop Oscar Romero during beatification Mass in the Divine Saviour of the World square in San Salvador. Photo: CNS

Members of the Children’s Rosary, a global prayer group movement, will boost the numbers taking part in the sixth annual Global Rosary for Priests on June 12. The initiative follows an invitation from Worldpriest founder Marion Mulhall to US-based Blythe Kaufman, founder of the Children’s Rosary. Members of the group meet regularly to pray the…

British star Jude Law has been cast as a fictional young American Pope for a new television series, directed by Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino. The actor will play Italian-American Lenny Belardo, a conservative “recruited by a Vatican fed up with liberals” who is thrust into the papacy as Pope Pius XIII, and must grapple with…

Greenbacks and the green economy: Ecology is good business writes Cindy Wooden

A Dublin-based priest has insisted that “heads would roll” if a political party lost a vote as badly as the Church did in the marriage referendum. He also accused some of the bishops of giving “no leadership”. Fr Joe McDonald of St Matthew’s parish in west Dublin told The Irish Catholic “my difficulty is that…

Ethnic tensions are simmering dangerously, writes Paul Keenan

Pictured at the opening of St Francis Hospice Blanchardstown was Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar TD, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin and the Chairman of St Francis Hospice, The Hon. Mr. Justice Peter Kelly. Fundraising continues to provide expanded range of palliative care services for West Dublin community. Located at Abbotstown, close to Connolly Hospital,…

Senior Vatican cardinal reacts to Irish same-sex marriage referendum result

Parish priest says atmosphere around the referendum has been poisoned