Jordan stands for everything IS detests, writes Paul Keenan

A selection of iconic images taken by one of the 20th century’s most significant photographers are on display in Northern Ireland for the first time. ‘Frank Browne – Through the Lens’ is an exhibition of over 100 photographs taken by the famous Titanic passenger Fr Frank Browne SJ who is described as the “father of…

Two retired De La Salle Brothers (Br George Whyte and Br John McDermott) are discovering a new ministry for themselves. Together they have begun visiting De La Salle schools, primary and secondary, from Belfast to Waterford in order to help students and teachers become more aware of their great Catholic/Christian heritage. The brothers tell the…

Lay faith-based missionary groups are coming together to form a new representative body, to pool resources and lobby for the needs of lay missionaries at home and abroad. Lay Mission Union Ireland (LMUI) is still in the planning stages, but the origins of the new body dates back to a meeting in 2013, when lay…

The Dean of Kilfenora has expressed his surprise that Pope Francis has not moved to regularise its “anomalous” status as part of the diocese of Galway. Fr Conor Cunningham’s comments follow an announcement by the Vatican that the Pope has “ordered the formal union” of the metropolitan see of Cashel with the ancient diocese of…

Staff Reporter The NI Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has won High Court permission to challenge the law in the North to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest or “serious malformation” of a foetus. A judge in Belfast granted leave on Monday to seek a judicial review of the organisation’s claims that the North’s current…

School buildings, convents, vestries, playing fields and associated lands across Ireland were handed over

The Vatican has named both Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin as the Irish Church’s representatives to October’s global meeting of Catholic bishops. The Vatican also named Archbishop-designate Kieran O’Reilly of Cashel and Emly as substitute. The Catholic Communications Office said that he “will only travel and participate in the…

Papal nuncio leads weekend celebrations in Co. Longford parish

To open the celebrations at the announcement of Fr John Sullivan SJ being made venerable, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will celebrate a Mass in thanksgiving for his life and in prayer for his canonisation in St Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin on Saturday, February 21 at 11am. There will be a blessing with the crucifix of…