Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, pictured with the seminary council at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth during a brief visit to Ireland last week, when he spent Saturday afternoon with the seminary community at the invitation of College President, Msgr Hugh Connolly, who described it as “an uplifting…

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Parish Priest, Fr Gerard McCloskey serving ice cream at St Nicholas's church, Ardglass, Co. Down as part of an ‘Ice cream Sunday’ initiative to give children of the parish a sense of belonging and to encourage them to participate in Sunday Mass. Photo: Gerard Smyth

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The leader of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine has rejected allegations from the Russian Orthodox Church that his congregation is sowing disunion in the country. In an interview conducted after criticisms levelled by Moscow’s Metropolitan Hilarion, reported in The Irish Catholic last week, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk insisted that his Church was not taking…

Embassy monitoring apostasy case