A live musical event, run by the Dublin archdiocese for teenagers, saw over 2,000 young people from schools all over Dublin perform liturgical music this week. Emmanuel is a live concert series where young people learn new and old Church music and hymns and then perform live with an orchestra in front of large audiences…

Iraqi Christians attend Mass at a church in Baghdad. Pope Francis has said Catholics are "praying urgently that the intolerable brutality" Iraqi and Syrian Christians are suffering "may end as soon as possible."  

A delegation representing the ‘Save our Dominican church’ campaign in Drogheda will present a petition of 22,000 signatures to the international headquarters of the Dominican order in Rome next month. Irish Dominican authorities announced in September that they were planning to withdraw from five communities across Ireland because of falling numbers and the ageing profile…

Book claims Pope Francis’ revolution ‘may disappoint’ The Pope is engaged in a “radical revolution” that may disappoint both progressives and traditionalists, according to Cardinal Walter Kasper’s new book Pope Francis – Revolution of Tenderness and Mercy. Describing how the Holy Father distanced himself from such extreme positions in his final address at October 2014’s…

A new Irish Easter egg is aiming to put Jesus back at the heart of Easter while also raising money for charity. Julie Carvill, chairperson of Bray Churches Together Steering Group, made up of 10 member churches/worshipping communities who work together on ecumenical projects, founded the ‘Happy Easter Egg’ to raises awareness of the resurrection…

The General Secretary of the Joint Managerial Board (JMB) says he believes Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan has made realistic concessions to the teachers’ unions with regard to proposed changes to the Junior Cert exam. Accepting that teachers have a range of concerns, particularly with regard to being overstretched, Ferdia Kelly said “we all have…

The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has said the reluctance of politicians and others to challenge media bias in recent years has done serious damage to public debate in Ireland. The PLC’s education officer, Dr Ruth Cullen made her remarks ahead of the public event on media bias which takes place outside the Dáil next Wednesday…

The former head of the International Catholic Migration Commission tells Francis X. Roccathe flow of people is overwhelming some countries

Christians have joined the fight against IS, writes Paul Keenan

Diocese faces future with fewer priests